dibella and persico were close i believe there both from redhook. dibella was a longshore guy and close to carlo gambino who you might say put him in as boss after joe colombo was shot and persico was tight with carlo surposely killed albert a for gambino( debate for another thread) so they basically were installed by carlo. i read when carmine goes back to jail in 82 he asks dibella to step back up in some leadership roll to
