Originally Posted By: pmac
Someone posted violi sr wire from the early 70tys and he was saying how you could be a made guy in the italian family's but you also had to be inducted into the american familys. Seems the violis were part of the buffalo family but also a cell of the narrgetta or how you spell it. The father was a bonanno guy but probaly with the nar...... same with the cherry hill gambinos think they were all made in sicily but when they came to the usa carlo gambino inducted them into the lcn to put them on a even playing field like all the rest of the guys in nyc.


I believe you are referring to the problems Paolo Violi was having with Nicola Rizzuto sr. Nicola(sicilian made man) did not want to follow protocol basically was conducting certain business without Paolo knowledge; and Paolo took exception to that. He also wanted to impose something like a 5 yr waiting period if memory serves correct, for a Sicilian made man to be inducted into the LCN.