Well, this thread was interesting. Never saw so many people agree to disagree, again and again, over and over.

Not knowing jack about this topic and after reading through this, I would say that Amuso is looking more like the real Boss than Crea.

People might be forgetting that the very first thing the Feds do when they begin surveillance is try and make out the hierarchies of a family by visual observation. This is before the bugs and wires taps reveal anything. That's the first thing they do. Now in this situation, you have a powerful street boss of some kind (Crea) commanding great respect, and the Feds still say he is NOT the man. That's a little profound. If you think the Feds are lying about that, you need to produce some scenarios as to why they would lie.

Boss doesn't mean who runs the company, Boss is who owns the company. That goes for both legitimate and illicit affairs.

Is it impossible that Amuso is the 'owner' or biggest shareholder/investor in the Lucchese Family's principal cash crops? No it isn't.