Good stuff Marble....so the consensus would be that faction is dead. As far as a crew/half a family goes. To expand on my original questioning....do the Patriarcas need it strategically to maintain the family or are they now only focused on Boston?
IMO I'd have to say that you have the Underboss and Consigliere present in Rhode island and that's about it. Any one else around is pretty much retired with very little influence at the table. Joe Ruggiero is still in RI as a capo but I never hear anything about him except hes a legitimate businessman. I don't know how much respect he carries with the Boston faction. I don't see any younger crews coming up in Providence. Even in the areas outside the city.
Yes, they do. Because Providence is a city that is building up. There's got to be money to be made through construction, gambling, loanshark, not to mention the new casino being built in Fall River, MA starting soon. Ruggiero does have some connections in that city.
I think Boston is the focus now. With East Boston/Revere still being very strong hot beds to recruit IMO. More so than the neighboring towns outside Providence. They have the admin up there now. So Boston is the shift. When Manocchio was the boss he at least still had Deluca on the street along with the Scivola's and Lato's of the world. So there was still some power in Providence but today is a different story unfortunately.
