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Re: How did the Families get their names?
[Re: Liggio]
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11/09/23 04:13 PM
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It was whoever the boss was at the time or who they perceived to be the boss. Example is an informant for the FBN in New Jersey, who gave information in the early to mid 1950s, who identified Badami as boss of New Jersey, Ida of Philadelphia, Anastasia, Costello and Lucchese of New York as a bosses, Magaddino of Buffalo. The informant then said that Garofalo, Magliocco of New York were bosses, but they were Underbosses at the time. The informant even identified some capos as bosses of their own families that belonged to the Bonanno, Gambino, and the Genovese families. That is just one example.
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Re: How did the Families get their names?
[Re: Liggio]
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11/10/23 04:25 PM
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Before the Valachi hearings, most Americans were unaware of a "national syndicate" of OC. Even if they knew that "the Mafia," or "the Mob" were active in their cities, they probably were unaware that OC activities were organized around families, with a Don and a hierarchy. The Valachi charts for the first time showed the public what a Mafia family structure looked like, and who was the current boss. The news media simply picked up on that, and law enforcement carried that nomenclature forward when making arrests or investigations. The hearings also made the FBI, which had largely ignored OC, start going after LCN and talking up their new efforts with the media and politicians.
But, if you look at the Valachi charts from 60 years ago, the only one of the Five Families whose name has changed is Colombo, which was "the Joseph Magliocco Family" in the charts. That was because of Joe Colombo's ultra-high media profile, not because he decreed it. Gotti, asked by a reporter if he was the boss of the Gambino Family, famously replied: "I'm a member of the Gotti family. My wife Vicki is the boss."
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: How did the Families get their names?
[Re: Liggio]
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11/10/23 07:19 PM
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The absolute truth of the matter is, the TRUTH! Is that long before Joe Valachi ever spilled his guts, and the FBI created those now-infamous hierarchy charts with the info he provided, with the "names" of the so-called Five Families....these borgatas were ALWAYS named for the "Representante" who headed them, and interchangeably, with the area or district they came from....And THATS a fact! Hands down!
The Castellammarese borgata or Salvatore Maranzano's Family. The Brooklyn crew or Joe Profaci's Family. The Downtown Crew (later Westside) or Charlie Luciano's Family, etc. etc.
These entities needed to be identified in order for guys to operate and communicate properly....how else were they gonna do it? By saying the bald guy from 18th Ave who's with the other fella from Bensonhurst? Or the fella who's with the fella from Downtown NY?
Like Valachi said, it was Tommy Gagliano's outfit, later Tommy Lucchese's crew. Albert Anastasia's borgata. So on and so forth...
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Re: How did the Families get their names?
[Re: NYMafia]
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11/10/23 07:56 PM
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The absolute truth of the matter is, the TRUTH! Is that long before Joe Valachi ever spilled his guts, and the FBI created those now-infamous hierarchy charts with the info he provided, with the "names" of the so-called Five Families....these borgatas were ALWAYS named for the "Representante" who headed them, and interchangeably, with the area or district they came from....And THATS a fact! Hands down!
The Castellammarese borgata or Salvatore Maranzano's Family. The Brooklyn crew or Joe Profaci's Family. The Downtown Crew (later Westside) or Charlie Luciano's Family, etc. etc.
These entities needed to be identified in order for guys to operate and communicate properly....how else were they gonna do it? By saying the bald guy from 18th Ave who's with the other fella from Bensonhurst? Or the fella who's with the fella from Downtown NY?
Like Valachi said, it was Tommy Gagliano's outfit, later Tommy Lucchese's crew. Albert Anastasia's borgata. So on and so forth... No one’s disagreeing with what happened prior. The point of interest is that to this day the families generally call themselves the names that came from that era. Eg in pennisis making ceremony they called the family the lucchese family. It is interesting because as an outsider I would assume the media might call them that but inducted members would have their own thing or even no specific way of identifying. But they literally call themselves the luccheses as the gambinos do etc. it is interesting as to why it went that way
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Re: How did the Families get their names?
[Re: NYMafia]
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11/10/23 08:07 PM
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The absolute truth of the matter is, the TRUTH! Is that long before Joe Valachi ever spilled his guts, and the FBI created those now-infamous hierarchy charts with the info he provided, with the "names" of the so-called Five Families....these borgatas were ALWAYS named for the "Representante" who headed them, and interchangeably, with the area or district they came from....And THATS a fact! Hands down!
The Castellammarese borgata or Salvatore Maranzano's Family. The Brooklyn crew or Joe Profaci's Family. The Downtown Crew (later Westside) or Charlie Luciano's Family, etc. etc.
These entities needed to be identified in order for guys to operate and communicate properly....how else were they gonna do it? By saying the bald guy from 18th Ave who's with the other fella from Bensonhurst? Or the fella who's with the fella from Downtown NY?
Like Valachi said, it was Tommy Gagliano's outfit, later Tommy Lucchese's crew. Albert Anastasia's borgata. So on and so forth... Yes it was already tradition in Sicily, Italy.
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Re: How did the Families get their names?
[Re: Liggio]
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11/10/23 08:20 PM
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NYM, let's not split hairs here motherfucker. We're talking about the names that they're currently widely known by. The names that's written in stone for decades on end. Going by your stupid fucking logic, they should take the name of every succeeding boss, but yet they're still known by the bosses from 1963, the only exception being the Profaci Family becoming the Colombo Family. Come on now cocksucker, if you're gonna profit off this subject have your fucking facts straight. First of all. You are WAY OUT OF LINE HERE, understand what I'm tellin' you? So I strongly suggest that you jump back into your gorilla bag and calm the fuck down. Whether you agree with other forum members or not, thats not how you talk to people. Nobody cursed your mother, or disrespected you the way you are now attempting to speak to me. Thats not how a gentleman talks....Truth be told, thats not even how an asshole talks. Where I come from, thats only how a punk talks! Get it? So wise the fuck up! - That said, learn how to conduct yourself in a proper manner. Don't let the fact that you know you can hide in your basement behind your computer screen, make you then act like the "tough guy" we both know you aren't. Understand?
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Re: How did the Families get their names?
[Re: Brovelli]
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11/10/23 08:23 PM
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The absolute truth of the matter is, the TRUTH! Is that long before Joe Valachi ever spilled his guts, and the FBI created those now-infamous hierarchy charts with the info he provided, with the "names" of the so-called Five Families....these borgatas were ALWAYS named for the "Representante" who headed them, and interchangeably, with the area or district they came from....And THATS a fact! Hands down!
The Castellammarese borgata or Salvatore Maranzano's Family. The Brooklyn crew or Joe Profaci's Family. The Downtown Crew (later Westside) or Charlie Luciano's Family, etc. etc.
These entities needed to be identified in order for guys to operate and communicate properly....how else were they gonna do it? By saying the bald guy from 18th Ave who's with the other fella from Bensonhurst? Or the fella who's with the fella from Downtown NY?
Like Valachi said, it was Tommy Gagliano's outfit, later Tommy Lucchese's crew. Albert Anastasia's borgata. So on and so forth... No one’s disagreeing with what happened prior. The point of interest is that to this day the families generally call themselves the names that came from that era. Eg in pennisis making ceremony they called the family the lucchese family. It is interesting because as an outsider I would assume the media might call them that but inducted members would have their own thing or even no specific way of identifying. But they literally call themselves the luccheses as the gambinos do etc. it is interesting as to why it went that way Only the public generally calls them by those names. Although truthfully, nowadays, many street guys do as well. But TRUTHFULLY, thats not the way it is.
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Re: How did the Families get their names?
[Re: NYMafia]
#1074462
11/10/23 08:30 PM
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The absolute truth of the matter is, the TRUTH! Is that long before Joe Valachi ever spilled his guts, and the FBI created those now-infamous hierarchy charts with the info he provided, with the "names" of the so-called Five Families....these borgatas were ALWAYS named for the "Representante" who headed them, and interchangeably, with the area or district they came from....And THATS a fact! Hands down!
The Castellammarese borgata or Salvatore Maranzano's Family. The Brooklyn crew or Joe Profaci's Family. The Downtown Crew (later Westside) or Charlie Luciano's Family, etc. etc.
These entities needed to be identified in order for guys to operate and communicate properly....how else were they gonna do it? By saying the bald guy from 18th Ave who's with the other fella from Bensonhurst? Or the fella who's with the fella from Downtown NY?
Like Valachi said, it was Tommy Gagliano's outfit, later Tommy Lucchese's crew. Albert Anastasia's borgata. So on and so forth... No one’s disagreeing with what happened prior. The point of interest is that to this day the families generally call themselves the names that came from that era. Eg in pennisis making ceremony they called the family the lucchese family. It is interesting because as an outsider I would assume the media might call them that but inducted members would have their own thing or even no specific way of identifying. But they literally call themselves the luccheses as the gambinos do etc. it is interesting as to why it went that way Only the public generally calls them by those names. Although truthfully, nowadays, many street guys do as well. But TRUTHFULLY, thats not the way it is. Zummo in that recorded ceremony called them the bonanno family. You can critique each individual instance but from the evidence we have the bonannos call themselves the bonannos the luccheses call themselves that, the gambinos are the gambinos from what I understand. The west side I don’t think ever call themselves the Genovese and I understand the Colombo’s are sometimes and may call themselves the persicos. But 3 of 5 are seemingly still using names from 50+ years ago. I agree tradition is the current boss makes the family, likely to hide the actual boss is why they stopped doing that and just kept those old names.
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Re: How did the Families get their names?
[Re: Brovelli]
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11/10/23 08:56 PM
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The absolute truth of the matter is, the TRUTH! Is that long before Joe Valachi ever spilled his guts, and the FBI created those now-infamous hierarchy charts with the info he provided, with the "names" of the so-called Five Families....these borgatas were ALWAYS named for the "Representante" who headed them, and interchangeably, with the area or district they came from....And THATS a fact! Hands down!
The Castellammarese borgata or Salvatore Maranzano's Family. The Brooklyn crew or Joe Profaci's Family. The Downtown Crew (later Westside) or Charlie Luciano's Family, etc. etc.
These entities needed to be identified in order for guys to operate and communicate properly....how else were they gonna do it? By saying the bald guy from 18th Ave who's with the other fella from Bensonhurst? Or the fella who's with the fella from Downtown NY?
Like Valachi said, it was Tommy Gagliano's outfit, later Tommy Lucchese's crew. Albert Anastasia's borgata. So on and so forth... No one’s disagreeing with what happened prior. The point of interest is that to this day the families generally call themselves the names that came from that era. Eg in pennisis making ceremony they called the family the lucchese family. It is interesting because as an outsider I would assume the media might call them that but inducted members would have their own thing or even no specific way of identifying. But they literally call themselves the luccheses as the gambinos do etc. it is interesting as to why it went that way Only the public generally calls them by those names. Although truthfully, nowadays, many street guys do as well. But TRUTHFULLY, thats not the way it is. Zummo in that recorded ceremony called them the bonanno family. You can critique each individual instance but from the evidence we have the bonannos call themselves the bonannos the luccheses call themselves that, the gambinos are the gambinos from what I understand. The west side I don’t think ever call themselves the Genovese and I understand the Colombo’s are sometimes and may call themselves the persicos. But 3 of 5 are seemingly still using names from 50+ years ago. I agree tradition is the current boss makes the family, likely to hide the actual boss is why they stopped doing that and just kept those old names. Bingo Brovelli! That last statement that you made, about them shielding the true boss by NOT mentioning his name or referring to their borgata by his name is right on point. So, between guys, even so-called good fellas nowadays, who are "green" and novices, as well as the more savvy fellas who prefer to shield their boss, their buddy, from exposure, often times today the just refer to the crews by their old "tradition" bosses names of the 1960s; Gambino, Bonanno, Colombo, and so forth.
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Re: How did the Families get their names?
[Re: NYMafia]
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11/11/23 11:53 AM
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First of all. You are WAY OUT OF LINE HERE, understand what I'm tellin' you? So I strongly suggest that you jump back into your gorilla bag and calm the fuck down. Whether you agree with other forum members or not, thats not how you talk to people. Nobody cursed your mother, or disrespected you the way you are now attempting to speak to me.
Thats not how a gentleman talks....Truth be told, thats not even how an asshole talks. Where I come from, thats only how a punk talks! Get it? So wise the fuck up! - That said, learn how to conduct yourself in a proper manner. Don't let the fact that you know you can hide in your basement behind your computer screen, make you then act like the "tough guy" we both know you aren't. Understand?
Neither the first nor last time he is insulting other members, someone deleted his insulting posts from last night. I am not the admin , but he deserved to get banned long time ago. For both insulting other members, not being able to have civilized conversation and for trolling on threads.
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Re: How did the Families get their names?
[Re: Strax]
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11/11/23 04:56 PM
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First of all. You are WAY OUT OF LINE HERE, understand what I'm tellin' you? So I strongly suggest that you jump back into your gorilla bag and calm the fuck down. Whether you agree with other forum members or not, thats not how you talk to people. Nobody cursed your mother, or disrespected you the way you are now attempting to speak to me.
Thats not how a gentleman talks....Truth be told, thats not even how an asshole talks. Where I come from, thats only how a punk talks! Get it? So wise the fuck up! - That said, learn how to conduct yourself in a proper manner. Don't let the fact that you know you can hide in your basement behind your computer screen, make you then act like the "tough guy" we both know you aren't. Understand?
Neither the first nor last time he is insulting other members, someone deleted his insulting posts from last night. I am not the admin , but he deserved to get banned long time ago. For both insulting other members, not being able to have civilized conversation and for trolling on threads. - I agree with you Strax. I also see that Liggio deleted his original nasty comments aimed at me from yesterday. He later posted an apology to me. I also saw a comment he made this morning claiming he was "drunk" last night (so I guess, thats his excuse for acting in such a belligerent manner.) But, unfortunately, as of today, I see that Liggio has now deleted all three comments. Normally, I'd just accept the apology and say "live and let live." But at this point, I don't know what to make of his back and forth actions. - But I do agree with you, if he keeps it up, trolling and acting nasty to fellow forum members, then Liggio should be either seriously sanctioned, or banned.
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Re: How did the Families get their names?
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11/11/23 05:51 PM
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Re: How did the Families get their names?
[Re: NYMafia]
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11/12/23 07:12 AM
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NYM, let's not split hairs here motherfucker. We're talking about the names that they're currently widely known by. The names that's written in stone for decades on end. Going by your stupid fucking logic, they should take the name of every succeeding boss, but yet they're still known by the bosses from 1963, the only exception being the Profaci Family becoming the Colombo Family. Come on now cocksucker, if you're gonna profit off this subject have your fucking facts straight. First of all. You are WAY OUT OF LINE HERE, understand what I'm tellin' you? So I strongly suggest that you jump back into your gorilla bag and calm the fuck down. Whether you agree with other forum members or not, thats not how you talk to people. Nobody cursed your mother, or disrespected you the way you are now attempting to speak to me. Thats not how a gentleman talks....Truth be told, thats not even how an asshole talks. Where I come from, thats only how a punk talks! Get it? So wise the fuck up! - That said, learn how to conduct yourself in a proper manner. Don't let the fact that you know you can hide in your basement behind your computer screen, make you then act like the "tough guy" we both know you aren't. Understand? Brovelli, as I mentioned in your post above this one, I generally tend to agree with you, and normally I'd just dismiss Liggio's belligerent rantings in his post that I saved above (which he has since deleted,) and just let bygones be bygones. But here's the only caveat to your way of thinking. His "excuse" (if you wanna call it that) for all his belligerent behavior and cursing in his rant towards me was that he was "drunk" as he put it (he has since deleted this comment too.) As I say, normally, I'd just dismiss it as the rantings of someone drunk, and cut him some slack. But here's the rub...if you read his "allegedly" drunkin' post, you'll notice that he composes his paragraph and the wording in it in perfect order, not to mention that there are no spelling errors, whatsoever. Now, I don't know about you or anybody else, but the few times I've attempted to write something after I've had a few, and then reread it the next day, I had all kinds of spelling mistakes and what I thought was a cohesive and clearly worded statement I realized was almost comically written. Lol. ...So, all this now makes me think that Liggio didn't write it so innocently, or while mindlessly under the influence of alcohol....It makes me think he has an ulterior motive and agenda. (whatever that could be.)...Trolling, looking to disrupt the flow of this forum, who knows?
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Re: How did the Families get their names?
[Re: NYMafia]
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11/12/23 01:35 PM
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NYM, let's not split hairs here motherfucker. We're talking about the names that they're currently widely known by. The names that's written in stone for decades on end. Going by your stupid fucking logic, they should take the name of every succeeding boss, but yet they're still known by the bosses from 1963, the only exception being the Profaci Family becoming the Colombo Family. Come on now cocksucker, if you're gonna profit off this subject have your fucking facts straight. First of all. You are WAY OUT OF LINE HERE, understand what I'm tellin' you? So I strongly suggest that you jump back into your gorilla bag and calm the fuck down. Whether you agree with other forum members or not, thats not how you talk to people. Nobody cursed your mother, or disrespected you the way you are now attempting to speak to me. Thats not how a gentleman talks....Truth be told, thats not even how an asshole talks. Where I come from, thats only how a punk talks! Get it? So wise the fuck up! - That said, learn how to conduct yourself in a proper manner. Don't let the fact that you know you can hide in your basement behind your computer screen, make you then act like the "tough guy" we both know you aren't. Understand? Brovelli, as I mentioned in your post above this one, I generally tend to agree with you, and normally I'd just dismiss Liggio's belligerent rantings in his post that I saved above (which he has since deleted,) and just let bygones be bygones. But here's the only caveat to your way of thinking. His "excuse" (if you wanna call it that) for all his belligerent behavior and cursing in his rant towards me was that he was "drunk" as he put it (he has since deleted this comment too.) As I say, normally, I'd just dismiss it as the rantings of someone drunk, and cut him some slack. But here's the rub...if you read his "allegedly" drunkin' post, you'll notice that he composes his paragraph and the wording in it in perfect order, not to mention that there are no spelling errors, whatsoever. Now, I don't know about you or anybody else, but the few times I've attempted to write something after I've had a few, and then reread it the next day, I had all kinds of spelling mistakes and what I thought was a cohesive and clearly worded statement I realized was almost comically written. Lol. ...So, all this now makes me think that Liggio didn't write it so innocently, or while mindlessly under the influence of alcohol....It makes me think he has an ulterior motive and agenda. (whatever that could be.)...Trolling, looking to disrupt the flow of this forum, who knows? I think the drunk claim was an excuse. Anyway you have every right to be frustrated/annoyed/offended, whatever word to use but in general I do think Liggio is passionate about the topic just unfortunately that passion strays into arguments/nonsense too often. There are people on the ends of these computers so I try to understand! But whatever let's move on to with what we're here for
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Re: How did the Families get their names?
[Re: Sullycantwell]
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11/12/23 01:40 PM
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The earliest example I know of is from a 1902 letter from Francesco Motisi (NOLA mafioso) to Giuseppe Morello. In the letter they talked about Francesco Marchese and they said of Marchese he was in the “House of Lupo” meaning he was in Ignazio Lupo’s family. In Joe Bonanno’s book “Man of Honor,” he talked about being in the “house of Schiro.” Again, meaning he was in Nicolo Schiro’s family. So, this is probably how people referred to families early on. The Valachi hearings had probably the biggest impact because the family names went from being called whatever the bosses last name was to noe being called Luchese, Gambino, Bonanno, etc. as we can see with the new indictment, the names are still in place for the Gambino family as Lanni told someone he was a Gambino. We have examples of bosses changing the name, for example IIRC Joe Massino got rid of the use of Bonanno in reference to that family and I believe opted for naming it after him. Do you have any insight into what changed over time? Inevitably things got Americanized etc but you would think the name or how you identify what family you belong to would be pretty important. Interesting how this changed and how of all things public/media given names were actually adopted. Maybe that was a generational thing where the newer guys made in the 70s by then knew the families by those media names and adopted them? Who knows
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