Also, ive heard references to a "Partinico Faction" in the Detroit LCN, the "heroin wing" of the Family (they all have one, no?) led by captain Raffaele "Jimmy Q." Quasarano & Sicilian Francesco "Frankie Fingers" Coppola.
I assume it must refer to the Sicilian township, which i guess was the breeding ground of Quaserano, Coppola & their associates spread from from California to Canada? Or at least where they sourced their drugs?
Any information & illumination would be great, since i was pretty certain that Guglielmo Vito Tocco aka Black Bill, and by proxy the entire Tocco family, came from Terrasini.

As a side note, its so interesting yet understandable how many of the US Families retain links to their old townships & traditional Sicilian recruiting grounds, like, the obvious example, the Bonanno's & Castellemare Del Golfo.
Other examples would be Sam the Plumber & his Ribera nostalgia or Angelo Bruno's Villalba.
Alot of those early bosses were inclined to prefer & promote those from the same town back on the "other side", but shrinking recruitment pools make this practice unfeasible these days, and it is common enough for American mobsters to be from all over Italy, Southern (Puglia, Basilicata, Molise, Lazio, etc) as it is for them to be from the North (Piedmont, Lomardy, Liguria, etc)

Whats really fascinating is that the Rizzuto's have managed to maintain this practice, with their Sicilian home town of Cattolica Eraclea serving as their resource pool well into the 20th century. I do, however, digress.


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