vito just wanted the power in luciano's crime family back. as for where vito stood in that inner circle of luciano's at one time he was luciano's strong arm/hit-man when luciano was coming up in the underworld. the crew that luciano came up with was lansky(jewish the smart 1),siegel(jewish tough-guy), frank costello(italian and knew who to corrupt and kept business running the things lansky couldn't do because he was jewish costello could do) and vito(tough guy/hitman, somewhat of a good earner), now as for these other three guys i know morretti was costello's cousin and probably well trusted/respected by the crew. i believe adonis was on the hit squad for joe the boss which made him a hit-man. as for anastasia he was more strictly an assassin he was loyal to luciano for a while and helped in luciano's power house being loyal to luciano and running murder,inc which murder,inc was the strength behind luciano once ontop. now as for luchesse idk about him and luciano's relationship he was a part of maranzano's faction during luciano's come-up but luchesse was respect and still alive after luciano's rise.
now luciano's inner circle didn't involve all these guys. his inner circle was costello,genovesse,lansky,siegel
You watched too much of that Making Of The Mob program on AMC. Luciano came up with a lot more Italians than not. He had been involved and working for Masseria since he was a teenager. Meyer & Siegel were close allies of his, but it was never like Luciano was never LCN prior to him becoming an adult and he just ran with Jews all his life. Also while in Sicily, his power wasn't all that failing. He still had allies, like Carlo Gambino & Tommy Lucchese, bosses. And he had enough power still, to alledgely send Vito Genovese to prison for the rest of his life. He had his heroin pipeline, not to mention the allies he'd made among Sicilies Italian top mafioso. He still had enough power to receive business visits from guys from other families, like The Outfits Dominic Roberto & Jim Emery. Sooo, yeah..
