is he acrually made or just running the farm teams for the bonannos n columbos??

No. Not made.

They alluded to that in mob wives and I heard elsewhere he wasn't. Also in the book mob over Miami he was regarded as an associate

If anybody heard otherwise I'd like to know

Maybe dap and ivy know

I doubt he'll be doing much of anything now that reality TV is in his life.

Doubt he'll need to. Drita making good money right now and I'm sure he has $ buried. She seems to be living in a big house with no job

Hes a big earner. It could happen one day. Ive heard (not on the internet) both he is and he isnt. I lean towards the latter.

Skinny i always heard D'Avanzo was a real busy guy. That he did ALOT of work. How long has he been locked up? 5 years? More?

I don't think he's made but he's known as a standup guy so it might be in his future.

Idk about ALOT of work. Hes a shooter, but idk if hes as heavy as some would want u to believe. But hes done work. I know this for sure. Other than the hit im thinkin of, he might have been involved in one of those beefs with that Port Richmond crew, like a few guys got shot and like all the Port Richmond guys ratted and sent a bunch of Lucchese guys to jail.

Lee has spent a total of about 12 yrs in the can with his most recent bid being over 5 yrs and he is not a made guy, but like others here alluded to he was a very involved/big earner on the street when he was out and headed a crew that did tons of scores.

In books about Chris Paciello and others that discussed the Staten Island mob scene, Lee was shown to be very influential with both the Bonannos (he worked with TG) and Colombos. If he wanted to get involved again, I wouldnt be surprised if he gets inducted in either family.

Anybody know which wiseguy's nephew was the one that Lee beat up in his early years which caused the wiseguy to put a hit out on Lee and send a message to Lee's crew the new springville boys? Lee eventually got a pass from gravano and a few yrs later started dating karen.

On a side note, according to Renee Graziano her father TG has cancer and is going blind (about 75%) in one eye.

Sorry, poor choice of words on my part. What i really meant was him and that crew of bank thieves he had. I read those guys did alot of scores and pulled down some decent bank from them. What did they call those guys, The night crew or Night Deposit crew, i don't know something like that.

Good article from last year on Paciello and all the info he gave up. They talk a little about D'Avanzo in it.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2012-03-08/news/chris-paciello-ratted-on-mob-bosses-new-documents-show/

If u mean work like scores, yea

Like i said, (real) poor choice of words on my part. lol

But yes, i meant the scores his crew pulled off.

From the article

"During a May 2001 interview with the FBI, Paciello described how after his father departed, his family moved from Brooklyn to Staten Island. That's where he first met Lee D'Avanzo, the leader of the New Springville Boys, a ragtag group of wannabe wise guys whom the government would later characterize as a "farm team" for the Bonanno crime family.

D'Avanzo was a meaty tough guy with a cleft chin, piercing eyes, and jet-black hair. A cousin of former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, he was the son of a car thief and loan shark who was killed in 1977 after trying to run down an FBI agent. (The younger D'Avanzo achieved notoriety last year as the husband of Drita D'Avanzo in the VH1 reality series Mob Wives.)

Paciello worked with a number of overlapping Mafia cliques in Brooklyn and Staten Island, but the members of D'Avanzo's crew, the New Springville Boys, were the nearest to being his real friends.

These relationships didn't prevent him from spilling the dirt to lawmen about the range of D'Avanzo's criminal activities, from ripping off banks' night deposit boxes to burglarizing stores to breaking into drug dealers' homes. Paciello also exposed D'Avanzo's loan-sharking operation; D'Avanzo once confided to him that he had as much as $100,000 on the street at any one time.

Wrote FBI agent Massa: "D'Avanzo always had guns. He would keep a shotgun next to his bed. Whenever [Paciello] needed a gun, D'Avanzo would provide one."

Sometime in fall 1992, one of D'Avanzo's buddies was picking up drugs on Richmond Terrace in Staten Island when he saw a group of men loading bales of marijuana into a U-Haul truck, according to the FBI documents. He called D'Avanzo and together they followed the truck to a secluded location in New Jersey. They then phoned Paciello, who headed over from the city, broke into the vehicle, and drove it away. When the trio arrived back in Staten Island and jimmied open the U-Haul, they could barely believe their eyes. It was literally a ton of marijuana.

Paciello sold his portion of the pot to a low-level mobster after placing a tracking device in the load. He then stole it back.

Word soon reached Bonanno Mob capo Anthony Graziano, a stocky, brutish man with a permanent smirk, about the huge haul. Soon Paciello was ordered to deliver $50,000 in a brown paper bag. (Documents that describe this incident only list Paciello as "source," but it is clear from the context that this is Paciello.)

According to the FBI report: "[Paciello] went to Graziano's house and met in the garage with Graziano. Graziano questioned [Paciello] about how much money [he] had from the score. [Paciello] lied and said only $150,000. [Paciello] told Graziano that [he] had used the money to purchase a home for his mother."

Graziano must have sensed a lie because he instructed one of his soldiers "to deal with this kid." The soldier pulled Paciello aside: "You want to be around for all the weddings, but none of the funerals," he reprimanded him. It was a thinly veiled threat.

Over the next six months, Paciello acknowledged to the FBI and federal prosecutors, he and the New Springville Boys pulled off several bank jobs. In one, a gangster strapped a fake bomb to his chest and walked into a bank, where he threatened to blow up the building if the tellers didn't give up the money. They did: $300,000."

Fuckin richmond terrace lmao! Musta been lookin for some rock

One guy told the bank cashier he was a suicide bomber. Give me the money or we all die. lol!

300K, not bad.

do u think guys today can get away with doing scored like this

Not for long

if you mention explosives in any way in a threat and get pinched , you are subjected to terrorism status. huge time then add on the bank robbery

Dapp you really think that they would make this guy after him and his entire family were on "Mob Wives", I feel like that's absurd

I agree. The guy was a hell of an earner from a young age, and a lot of people respect him. I won't dispute that. But this farce of a show has been a cancer to all of the street guys who are mentioned on it. I mean, Karen Gravano couldn't hurt her family because they had no credibility going in. But these other twats should have known better. And don't give me that "strong women" nonsense. No strong woman outs her husband, or her father, or her children like this. These bitches all need a serious smack in the mouth .

Don't worry someone will get the job

agree and i love how they all complain about the life meanwhile living in mini mansions that were bought with ill gotten gain...i saw drita was wondering aloud if she should let Lee back in the house

BITCH, its his house and he went to jail providing for that house

all c()nts you ask me

and the Graziano's should have known better...hell Jenn created the show...that poor bastard TG must have been distraught when he found out

If he is made, isn't being involved in show way to get self killed?

I f he's making as much as this thread suggests my guess is he'll be fine, i mean TG has 1 daughter that created it while the other stars in it and he's the Bonnano consig.

I'm assuming he's going to still make a play to be made. If he's that good of an earner (although in this day and age, robbing banks is not a smart move), hes definitely going to continue to be noticed, and so far he has stayed out of the show (his image at least). But who knows? Drita may make enough $$$ he can just be her driver. (probably not)

Wasn't TG shelved recently because of the show? Or was that all BS? I always wonder whether Pagan was tight with Porky Zanocchio and why they never mention Porky or Lana.

TG was shelved. These shows are cancer for a mobster's career. And it only takes a vague relation to the show (ie via a relative).

I read that too but gamms said it's bs and that a guy like Vinny tv couldn't shelve him tbh though he could've been.

Actually gamms later said it was true camarel. Not sure if you read that or not you probably missed it

certain people they arent allowed to bring up like Rizzo