Were there ever any Neapolitan or Calabrese factions within the 5 families like the cherry hill gambinos? I’ve only heard about the Sicilian faction in the Gambino and Bonanno families.
It’s probably the same reason why Castellano and the rest of the old school bosses didn’t want anything to do with Italians that weren’t of Sicilian ancestry. Like DeMeo, from Bologna, John Gotti, from Naples.
I think Castellano’s main problem with DeMeo was that he was so brutal and he sold drugs. He had close associates who were not Sicilian. And the 3 major OC groups in Italy all had close ties. Calabria and Sicily are also almost one in the same. But during Gambino and Castellano’s time the Ndrangheta was not the powerhouse that it is today. The Camorra was.
