Was "head of the commission" just a media invention or did one boss act as the head. They made out like Carlo Gambino was head of commission but is it just a case of whom was most respected at the time.
ie Gigante in that sense held a lot of clout on the commission which is how he got Vic & Gas to do his dirty work- personally I don't think the Vic/Gas gave two shitts what happened to Paulie
In fact they gave Angie their blessing whereas obviously the elders like Christy Ticks wasn't happy nor consulted for obviously reasons...
The underlying theory of the Commission in the first place was that there wasn't a single boss above the others. Theoretically they were all equal. However, obviously in real life some bosses will have more clout than others. They may have not been head of the Commission in the formal sense but certain bosses had more influence than their counterparts. Probably whatever boss had the most had a given time the media dubbed head of the Commission. In the early 2000's, for example, Massino chaired the meeting being as he was the last official boss then on the street.
