From the other board JD and Pogo:

Here's a list of known Vario crew members circa early 1988:

1. Paul Vario (73y) (IP) (Died 5.88)

Soldiers
- Peter 'Pete the Killer' Abinanti (76y)
- Ray Argentina (32y)
- Alphonse 'Foo' Correale (71y)
- Domenico Cutaia (52y)
- Alphonse D'Arco (56y)
- Louis Daidone (42y)
- Paolo D'Anno (ph)
- Bruno Facciolo (52y)
- Frank Lagano (49y)
- Frank Manzo (63y)
- Peter Vario (52y)

Former Crew Members
- Salvatore 'Don Turi' Correale (Former Captain)
- Salvatore 'Babe' Vario (Former Acting Captain)
- Rosario Sacco (Died 1983)
- Joseph Schiavo (D'Arco's in-law; proposed him for membership)

Is Ray Argentina or his younger brother Peter Argentina still active? Remember reading that Peter Argentina was shot in the arm by Frank Lastorinos son Carlo back in early summer 2011.

I thought d'arco said his.uncle Schiavo was a made guy and the most ppwerful guy in the vario crew other than paulie?

On February 10, 1979, Ferrara received a phone call at her salon.[1] She told her 19-year-old niece, Maria Sanacore, that she was meeting someone at a nearby Long Island diner, and Sanacore should come looking for her if she did not return in 15 minutes. Before leaving the salon, Ferrara left behind her purse, car keys, and mink coat. Ferrara also told Sanacore, "I have a chance to make $10,000." Ferrara did not return from the meeting.

On May 18, 1979, a dismembered female torso was found floating in Barnegat Inlet, near Toms River, New Jersey.[2] An autopsy performed at the Saint Barnabas Community Medical Center in Toms River confirmed, through recent breast augmentation surgery, that the body was Ferrara's. To date, no one has stood trial for Ferrara's murder. It is believed that Theresa Ferrara was one of the two women to be murdered in connection with the 1978 Lufthansa Heist.

Didn't even notice. I just posted the wikipedia text, mainly for the timeline of her death, which I find disturbing. Regardless, you're welcome. And happy Thanksgiving.

Check out Al D'Arco's book. Goes into a lot of mob history. According to what D'Arco learned, there used to be one big mob in Brooklyn and one of the original guys in it was called Turrido Curiale. He became a captain in the Luchese family, presumably because he had mutual interests with Tommy Luchese in the garment business. He made a guy called Joe Schiavo who was Al D'Arco's relative. When Curiale decided to step down, he offered Schiavo the captain spot. But Schiavo didn't want it and told him to give it to Paul Vario, who Schiavo had recruited and sponsored into the family.