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Bryan Reese's avatar

Great read! Lou and giovanni saliva are my great cousin and uncle on my dads moms side of the family. Enrico garofalo (who married camela salica my great great grandma)… had no relation to lilo garofalo at all…

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Eric Stonefelt's avatar

Thanks a ton, Bryan. I always love hearing from descendants and do my best to present the info objectively so I'm happy you enjoyed it. Also thanks a ton for confirming no relation to Garofalo. Appears to be just a coincidence that they were close to Lilo.

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Bryan Reese's avatar

YeaI loved the read and there is stuff in there that I did not know myself. Interestingly, lou had a brother who was in the CIA

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Bob's avatar

Giovanni is my great grandfather of my mother side his oldest daughter Santa is my grandmother. He always gave me the sucker's called charms. Uncle Louie I new well. Interesting

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Will Mosse's avatar

Fantastic work mate! Epic scale coverage of this crew, and the Sicilian-American ties of the Gambino Family more broadly. Bravo

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Eric Stonefelt's avatar

Thank you, Will!

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Will Mosse's avatar

Hey, Eric, I sent you an email on the mafiabloodlines gmail regarding the potential meaning of the word Tourna. Just wondering if you saw it. Thanks mate! Will

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The Greek's avatar

Incredible

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Eric Stonefelt's avatar

Thanks!

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Fabien's avatar

Stunning work man, as usual

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Johnny Scootch's avatar

Absolutely amazing article. I want more feed me feed me feed me.

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Eric Stonefelt's avatar

Thanks, Johnny! I appreciate it.

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Vincent Aquila's avatar

My great grandfather was a capo to Salvador "Toto" D'Aquila, then was in the Gambino family. Following that, his son (my grandfather) worked for Tony Pro and the Genevese Family along with my father for a short time before they put him into the trucking business. I have a shit ton of questions but no one talked about it and they're all gone. RIP...

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Will Mosse's avatar

Hey, Eric - how’s it going man? Been too long! Sorry for may absence from the forum etc. - very slack of me. Anyway, I was just chatting to this dude in a YouTube comment section who is apparently dating Johnny Martino’s granddaughter. I directed him/them to this article. I hope they get to it, and you hear from them! Cheers my dude! Will

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