Originally Posted By: IvyLeague
Here's a timeline I did a while back.



May 1990 - Barney Bellomo made acting boss after Vincent Gigante is indicted in the Widows case.

June 1996 - Barney Bellomo indicted. Dominick Cirillo becomes acting boss.

May 1998 - Dominick Cirillo steps down after a heart attack. Frank Serpico follows as acting boss but steps down some time between then and April 2001 when he's indicted as the "former" acting boss. Whenever that was, apparently Ernie Muscarella followed as acting boss.

January 2002 - Ernie Muscarella indicted as acting boss.

If what Garcia said was correct, Pasquale DeLuca was probably acting boss at some point during this time, since it would fall within the December 2002 - March 2005 time frame of Garcia's undercover work; though it's not clear for how long since we don't know exactly when Dominick Cirillo resumed his the role after he recovered.

April 2005 - Dominick Cirillo indicted as acting boss.

July 2005 - Matthew Ianniello indicted as "an" acting boss, as opposed to "the" acting boss. This is wording is probably intentional by the feds, which suggests he was on the ruling panel.

It's possible Artie Nigro was acting boss during this time, i.e. after Cirillo was indicted in April 2005 but before the point Danny Leo took over.

December 2006 - Danny Leo identified as acting boss (from his previous position on the ruling panel) and indicted as such in May 2007.

It's also possible Artie Nigro was acting boss at some point between Danny Leo's May 2007 indictment and the June 2009 article.

June 2009 - NY Daily News article identifies Benny Mangano (Oct 2006), Ernie Muscarella (Jan 2008), Barney Bellomo Dec 2008), and Larry Dentico (May 2009) on a "rotating panel" of recently released senior members running the family.

September 2009 - NY Times article identifies Tino Fiumara as being on a "three man panel" running the family.

February 2010 - Artie Nigro indicted as the "former" acting boss.


* Note: At points during this time line, a ruling panel was in place, including when a specific member had the role of the acting boss.


Yeah...I remember this timeline now. Thanks for posting it again.

Originally Posted By: Ivan
Originally Posted By: HairyKnuckles
I have received info from reliable source saying Tommy "Palmer" Greco served as boss before his death in 1975.


I've never even heard of this person. Do you have any more info about him?


Not much really. But he was born in 1895, served as a skipper for many years. Said to have been close to Lucky Luciano. Operated out of East Village (downtown Manhattan). One of the very few Sicilians among the high ranking members of the Family back then. (Most of them were of mainland Italian origins. Greco was born in Messina, Sicily.)
In his younger years was picked up numerous of times for burglary, robbery, assault and felonious assault. I posted a picture of him in the "rare pictures thread". Page 13.

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