That website does not provide a source either. And Basciano giving his blessing might not be the same as appointing. I'm probably a ball breaker right now and I'm not saying you're wrong, but being elected to acting boss is the usual practise. Wasn't Basciano an acting boss himself?
If we would go with Ivyleague's defintion of acting boss, it means that an acting boss loses his title when he goes to jail.
In this article Jerry Capeci states that when Basciano was in jail, the Bonanno family did not take orders from him.
