In August 1970, Vincenzo Cotroni went to Acapulco, Mexico to attend a "crime summit" attended by gangsters from Canada, the United States and France to discuss how to take advantage of the plans to legalize casinos in Quebec.[58] The plan was to take over the casinos to use them as fronts for money laundering. The subject was considered so important that Meyer Lansky served as the chairman of the conference, representing "the Commission.":

Any idea who the other participants were?

In 1969, Gulf & Western de cided to turn the subsidiary headed by Mr. Levin into an independent company, which eventually became known as Transnation.

A year later, during hearings before the Illinois Racing Board, agents for the Illinois Bureau of Investigation testified that Transnation had purchased the Mexican hotel, Acapulco Towers, which they said had been used by Meyer Lansky, the underworld leader, to hide from law?enforcement officers.

The hotel was described by the Illinois investigators as being under the management of “a nationally known gambling figure.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/29/...-korshaks-advice-major-corporations.html

There was actually a series of meetings from late July till late August. There were many retired members and associates in Acapulco. These are the topics, 1) Narcotics which had many Bonanno, Gambino, Sicilians, Calabrians, Toronto, Montreal, and Mexican members. 2) Legalizing Gambling in Quebec and Mexico, there were gambling casino in Mexico mob owned, but the bribes were getting steep were a few shutdown. A) There was the issue with Agua Caliente Resort which a number of families had interests in namely Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and Genovese. B) Hipodromo de las Americas in Mexico city also had issues. 3) Mexico ports custom agents and projects. 4 ) There were a number hits that the families and groups wanted to kill, only two were approved, while Agua Caliente Resort would only suffer a fire at the track after a series of meeting in 1970 and early 1971 where they finally backed off with Two other casinos following pursuit. 5) The FC wanted to give more power to their Mexican workers in the narcotic trade, this is the first major sign of Mexican Cartels forming, although it would be a few more years before they popped on the scene, but they were already gaining power by the late 1960s.

This is a incomplete list and I'll only give a partial of the attendees cause they went to different meeting during that time but they were all in Acapulco at the same time.
Bonannos- Vic Cotroni, Frank Cotroni, Paul Violi, Angelo Caruso (had a lot of power and influence in Mexico) Joseph Buccellato for his uncle Evola, Nick Zaffarano, two other unidentified members
Buffalo-John Papalia, Dante Gasbarrini, Vincent Luppino
Corsicans- Tommy D'Agostino, Frank Spirito, Guido and Joe Orsini, Paul Mondolini
Chicago-Johnny Roselli, Marshall Caifano, Louis Eboli, 3 unidentified members
Los Angeles- Michele Marchese, Angelo Marchese, Salvatore Sciortino, 2 unidentified members from San Diego.
Toronto- Benny Smith, Tony Perri, Carlos Gatto, a dozen more
Montreal- Irving Ellis, Raymond Daourt, a dozen more

It is a who is who in the underworld at that time. Meyer Lansky and his brother Jake attended the casino meetings, some others were Sylvestro Carolla and his son Anthony from New Orleans along with Joe Poretto, Peter Licavoli and Bill Taco of Detroit to name some of the others. During that time there were many members on the scene.

Wow great post GV thanks a lot.

Maybe TD can elaborate?

Vincent Cotroni (center), Frank Cotroni (right) and Paolo Violi
Vic Cotroni (centre, white shirt) with his brother Frank (on the right) and Paolo Violi (left) in an Acapulco nightclub in 1970

https://fr.pinterest.com/pin/vincen...ght-and-paolo-violi--507499451808662520/

Archive footage of Acapulco shot by an Italian filmmaker while traveling to Mexico in the 1970s.

Was The Egg technically part of the Bonanno Family or head of an independent clan?

According to Wikipedia, on 9 January 1975, Violi told Pietro Sciarra to go to New York to ask Philip "Rusty" Rastelli of the Bonanno family to appoint him the new boss of the Cotroni family. If true, this would suggest that they were ultimately controlled by the Bonanno Family.

Yes Cotroni/Violi were loyal to the Bonannos Rizzuto's not so much it turned out later..

Good post. There was a memo released as far back as '63 that Giancana, Accardo, Jackie Cerone, Charles English and Sam English visited Acapulco at that time, to begin the process of investing 'tens of millions' into the area. Later on, Acapulco Towers was known as a Gicanana residence while he was in exile/shelved.

At the time Giancana was also in the country from 1966 to 1974, but he mostly stayed at his home in Cuernavaca not Acapulco.

I always wondered why he chose that area of Mexico over all the gorgeous areas near the Caribbean sea. Weird choice on his part.

Cuernavaca was also a holiday destination for the inhabitants of the Valley of Mexico for centuries : for the Aztec monarchs, for the Spanish colonizers, and for the modern-day residents of Mexico City.

Sinatra in 1962

https://www.mptvimages.com/images/1...g-in-acapulco-mexico-1962-1978-ted-allan

In 1966 Sinatra was banned because of a movie.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-sinatra-banned-from-mexi/18957061/

With response here is one correction and some clear up. Some more answers for attendees. It was not Caifano, but one of his close associates. Frank Spirito is a different Frank Spirito, not Marseille boss. Pat Sciortino went down with Nick Guastella, Stefano Zoccoli, and Salvatore Cerrito, as Zoccoli was invited by Giuseppe Suraci, Pat Sciortino went down with San Jose to represent Joe Bonanno interest in a Caribbean hotel that served as a gambling spot that allegedly Sam Giacanna and Gambinos were trying to take over.
San Francisco- Mario Balistrieri, Joe Cataldo, Frank Cosenza
Cleveland- Frank Lonardo, Tony Delsenter
Detroit-Mike Polizzi
Kansas City- Joe Olivo, Nick Evola, John Blando
Tampa- AL and Nick Scaglione
New Jersey- Pat D'Amato
Gambino- Paulo Gambino, Joe Armone, Tony Scotto
Genovese- Pat Eboli, Louis Gaccione, Vincent Alo
Lucchese- Samuel Cavalieri, Anthony Luongo
French- William Zemour, Gilbert Zemour, Jean Venturi, Jean Tocci, Ansan Bistoni, Jean Baptiste Croce, Roger Coudert, Paul Spirito, Pierre Colonna, Jacques Imbert, Francis Vanverberghe.

That were some serious people looks like the French Connection was still involved.

The Zemour brothers , nicknamed the " Z " by the Milieu , are five French brothers, pied-noir Jews.
Both William and Gilbert were shot dead in '75 and '83 in Paris.
A third brother Edgar Zemour is shot on April 8, 1983 by an unknown person with a sniper rifle at a distance of four hundred meters in his villa in Miami where he lives with his son Mickael.

Some of the major players from France are missing, but you got to remember that Paris and Marseille both had wars going on from mid 1960s til 1969 when an uneasy truth was in place in Paris, and the Guerini brothers in Marseille were on trial and went to prison.
Gilbert Zemour, Jean Venturi, and Pierre Colonna all had interest in Quebec, Zemour and Venturi both wanted a piece of a casino in Quebec when gambling became legalized.
Colonna already had a couple successful Cercles in greater Bordeaux, and another one on St. Martin. Colonna represent members from that area, not a boss but his specialty was gambling establishments and he was good at it, to open a casino, they already had a couple guys ready to help run. He had protection on both sides of the law. He wanted to talk with Tany Zampa, but Zampa was not there, for Meme and Pascal Guerini when they got out, instead he talked with Jean Tocci and a deal was worked out. No idea if he was related to them, but Memeworked for Colonna uncles in Bordeaux before him and his brother moved to Marseille and setup shop.
Edgar Zemour was definitely killed on Paul Mondolini orders, unsure who the actual killer was. This was retaliation for Marcel Francisci being killed at the start of 1982. It is not proven that Zemour was behind it, but Edgar threatened Francisci a few times in 1981, last allegedly waving a pistol before going back to Miami. The last brother Theodore, semi active up until William was killed, then got out entirely, never a tough guy, and the others in Paris did not worry about him to retaliate, natural death.

Good stuff Monsieur Paul Mondoloni was killed in 1985 I believe CIA ties most of the Acapulco guys lol..