1967 is really interesting for that family. Informants in the Lucchese, Colombo, Bonanno, and Tampa give different accounts. Mr. Gibbs was acting boss from 1966 till a week after Lucchese death, then he stepped down. From the counts the leadership of the family was up in the air, as Vincent Rao the Familys official Consigliere and the actual top successor to Lucchese was having problems in court and was sentenced to five years in prison in 65 or 66 was not a great pick at the time. Stefano LaSalle was the current underboss at this time but did not want the boss position, and does not get the credit he deserves of keeping the peace of Mr. Gibbs and Tony Ducks. Tony Ducks went to Florida and talked Eddie Coco into becoming the acting boss, and becoming an ally to Tony ducks. Tramunti was able to get Paul Vario to become acting Consigliere and thus getting him to become an ally. Mr. Gibbs and Tony Ducks were the two top contenders by the end of the summer of 1967. Sometime between then and November of 1967, the Capos came together to finally cast a vote. Corallo became official boss. By December of 1967, Tony Ducks was indicted. He made Mr. Gibbs acting boss according to Bonanno and Colombo informants in the Spring of 1968. When Corallo was released from prison in 1970, he used Mr. Gibbs as a front boss.

He was the capo of the old 107th street crew that was a powerful crew in Manhattan.

How did this family once known for doing just about everything efficiently end up with Amuso as boss and the chaos that ensued?

I've heard some people say that Ducks actually wanted someone else but it somehow ended up being Amuso. Any truth to this?

From my understanding Corallo was considering making Anthony ‘Buddy’ Luongo as boss. He was from the Bronx faction where the power of the family had always been. Their and East Harlem anyways. Once Amuso and Casso found out they clipped him. Corallo then offered it to Casso and Casso suggested to Corallo to make Amuso boss. That is Cassos version of what happened.

Ducks seemed to be one of the smart old timers with connections to the original commission. Why would he go along with any plan that made someone like Casso more powerful? That was really the turning point for this family.

Ducks seemed to be one of the smart old timers with connections to the original commission. Why would he go along with any plan that made someone like Casso more powerful? That was really the turning point for this family.

As I have stated before there are different sources of informants. If more than one says the same thing or something similar to what another informant says, then there is cooperation with the information. If one informant gives information only they talked about, then it is hard to concluded it in the overall narrative. I will give you two examples of an informant giving only information they revealed without another informant backing it up. 1) An FBI informant who was a made member in the Bonanno crime family in Miami said that Anthony Corallo told him that Joseph Rosato was the boss, Anthony Corallo was the number two man, and Carmine Tramunti was shifted back to his former position in the Lucchese crime family. The informant was then told in January 1968 that a meeting of Lucchese members would meet at Paul Varios house to elect a new boss to replace Joseph Rosato. 2) An FBN informant who was an associate of Christopher Furnari of the Lucchese crime family in Brooklyn who was involved mainly in heroin said Christy Tick told him that Carmine Tramunti was number one, Paul Vario was number 2, and Christopher Furnari was number 3. Tramunti had final say on their dealings, but other venues outside narcotics had to be brought to "Steve" or the "Old Man" before they could move forward with them and to not talk about drugs in front of senior members or those close to other capos.

As I stated before, 1967 was interesting for the Lucchese crime family after Tommy Lucchese passed away.

There are many. But I will give you one source as this guy pretty much got Donnie Brascos foot in the door with the Colombo crime family early on and the only member in Florida Bonanno family who could vouch for Pistone at the time. Name is William Dara aka Willie the Tile Maker. He was a Bonanno soldier in the Miami area.