It is debatable of which family Adonis was inducted into, but I feel he was with the Mangano family first, then transferred to Luciano family in the early to mid 30's. Vincent Alo took over most of his rackets in New York, Salvatore Chiri took over his New Jersey rackets.
This is a fair hypothesis.
His link to the Mangano family was pretty strong in the 1930's. I also read that Anastasia took over some of Adonis' rackets.
In an early 1960's wiretap of Gyp Decarlo, GD says he disliked Adonis and Doc Stracher because he believed both were self-important and arrogant. He then went on to say that, years earlier, Frank Costello and Willie Moretti had a sitdown meeting with Adonis to address his alleged arrogance. The purpose of the meeting was to get him to take it down a notch and be a little more humble around the others. Would've liked to have been a fly on the wall for that meeting. I imagine a lot of nervous laughter and stuttering. I see this as proof that Adonis belonged to Costello.
