Originally Posted By: Ted
I thought Johnny Chang wasn't made yet because he was still serving a prison sentence.

Here's an interesting newspaper quote from Johnny Chang's lawyer in 1989:

"Much has been mentioned about his father," who is in prison on a 1982 federal racketeering conviction, Nastasi said. Nastasi referred to a letter to the judge from Ciancaglini's father in behalf of his son in which the father accepted responsibility for his own crimes.

Nastasi noted that while other Ciancaglini sons had been "initiated and made members" of the Nicodemo Scarfo crime family, John Ciancaglini had not.

"There are sons younger and older who are involved in a much more serious way. That should weigh in his favor," Nastasi told Gawthrop.



I think that article is flat out wrong. Here's whats actually documented through law enforcement and our current knowledge of things. Mikey Chang was made in the early 90's alongside Merlino by John Stanfa. Joey Ciancaglini was made around this same time period, but prior to Mikey & Joey Merlino being made, he too was made by Stanfa and then promptly promoted to Underboss. And I think there's only three Chang brothers. So if both of these guys weren't inducted until the 90's, then whom are these "other" Ciancaglini sons who had been "initiated & made members"? John Ciancaglini was one of the last guys inducted by Scarfo, while I could be off on that, I'm 90% certain of that to be the case.