Morello family split into the Genovese, Gambino, Lucchese, and Colombo crime families. Genovese and Lucchese being the big ones. When Ignazio Lupo went away, Salvatore D'Aquila took over being the forerunner for the Gambino family. Around 1920 Salvatore DiBella an independent gang took in members from A'quila. Bonanno family is the only family that did not have any connections to the Morello crime family. Also there a lot of gangs that were absorbed into the five families.


"I have this Nightmare. I'm on 5th avenue watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary and nine thousand cops march happily over my body." Chief Sidney Green