Originally Posted by Fleming_Ave
Originally Posted by Neo
Vito was the family boss in every way except in title. Costello at that point was unofficially the No.2 guy in the family.


I always wonder how the Mob would have been different if Genovese hadn't been so ambitious. Maybe if he did not become boss, he does not get sent away, so no issue between him and Joe Valachi in prison. Valachi does his time uneventfully , and the Mob keeps its' secrets for how many more years? We'll never know, but fun to speculate.


http://mafiamembershipcharts.blogspot.com/search/label/Informants?m=0

Apart Valachi there was many informants in the 1950s 1960s like Frank Bompensiero from L.A. or Anthony (Fat Tony) Zito from Detroit. For sure until Donnie Brasco the mafia would be misterious and Hoover would nOt be forced to admit the mafia existence.