I think I also read that Nino Gaggi's uncle or much older cousin was Frank Scalise. Frank Scalise served as underboss for a couple years under Albert Anastasia, until Scalise was murdered.

Correction - Scratch the names above. These seems to be the guys who were in Nino Gaggi´s crew:

Frank Bonino (1917-1989?)
John Chiarello (1913-1981)
Joe "Brewster" Delmonico Sr (1921-?)
Roy DeMeo (1942-1983)
Greg DePalma (1932-2009)(Later moved to be under Zingaro)
James "Jim-Jim" Eppolito Jr (1945-1979)
Jimmy "Clam" Eppolito Sr (1916-1979)
Frank "Butch" Guglielmini (1925-2010)
Luigi "Lulu" Marciano (?-?) (If made, possibly a member of this crew)
Thomas Masotto (1902-1980)
Victor Masotto (1909-1989)
Peter "17" Piacenti (1921-2007)
Gandolfo Sciandra (1928-1989) (possibly a member of this crew)
Albert Seru (1906-1989) (possibly a member of this crew)

Wasn't joe brewster delmonico in same picture with paul castellano,jimmy brown,frankie dap,joe butch,tommy gambino,tommy bilotti,frank decicco?

I love how in Murder Machine, after Gaggi and De Meo whacked the Eppolito's and split up, it describes Gaggi "circling around Piacenti" ominously before he started exchanging gunfire with the off duty cop who cornered them at a service station.

I'm sorry what do you mean by that?was he hiding behind piacenti?

Presumably he was trying to psyche out the cop.

Great research Hairy... were all of these made men or just some?

All were made yes, but Marciano´s status is unknown.

This Delmonico Sr fella´s last name is a bit of a mystery. In some reports and books his name is given as Delmonico, but elsewhere it says his name was DiDomenico. I don´t know which one is the correct one. He was the father of the guy with the Colombos who was killed in the 1980s. And yes Alex, Delmonico appears in that group photo taken at Castellano´s house. He was the only guy in that photo who never rose through the ranks.

By the looks of it, Gaggi´s crew was disbanded (or merged with another one) either at the time of Gaggi´s conviction in 1986 or two years later when he passed. Btw, credit goes to JD and Pogo, two posters on another forum for providing most of the names on that list.

great info.

Big Paul was COLD .The clam goes back to the 40's with the Gambinos .He supposedly whacked JOHNNY ROBERT'S to clear the way for the family . But I guess Gaggi comes from the SCALISE pedigre . Does that trump the clam ?

Ag

lulu was made died of cancer

brewster was with little toddo

anthony vitta also might have been in that crew

Wasn't he in Armone's crew?

Possibly. Many soldiers were moved and transfered all the time. However, at some point in late 1970s, Brewster was under Gaggi. This is confirmed by informants. He later turns up under Failla and DiLeonardo.



The info I´ve got on Vitta is that he was under Failla. But like I said above, soldiers were constantly being shuffled around.

Accursio "Gus" Marinelli (1911-1983?) should probably also be on the list of Gaggi members.

Why did he go by Joe Brewster? Anyone know the deal with that name?

I read somewhere that the rampers were stealing cars for nino at one time.could that be true?the gang where gravano,papa and others were.It could be true nino lived in bath beach.I don't get how did pappa go along with the genovese's after that.In the carlo book about casso,it says that Pappa was made in '74.Don't know if that can be true

yes he was..gus. with nino, aka swifty, brewster was taken by paul to run his club veterans and friends when carlo died..when paul was killed he went to fialla

swifty was very close to carmine lombardozzi

after jimmy emma gets killed , he goes there..got himself killed for sneaking guys

Was jimmy older than gerrard?who is this swifty your talking about?

gus marinelli. is swifty .pretty sure those guys were the same age.

How did DePalma come into this crew?Thought he was a bronx guy.

DePalma was originally a Brooklyn guy, but moved to Westchester (I think it was) sometime after being made.

greg in the mid 80's was in tony bakers crew from harlem,,tony dies and louie gets the crew from gotti

Louis Ricco?Why was greg moved from nino?

greg was probably making nino itchy...

Yeah. Louie's crew was Harlem based back then. A lot of people don't know that for some reason. But he had a club on 115th opposite the back end of Mount Carmel.

He moved to Scarsdale after he got married, HK. Long before he was made. Michael and Craig both grew up in Scarsdale/North East Yonkers. Poor Craig.