A name I forgot to include is Sam Tumminello, who shows up on some 1960s lists as a member but is not included on the more "definitive" list of confirmed members circa 1968. His heritage appears to have been Cefalu in Palermo province and it's not clear who identified him as a member nor why he's left off later lists. It's possible his identification was based on more speculative info, not sure.
Tumminello also doesn't appear on the FBI's 1985 list of confirmed NO members. The only members on that list in fact are Carlos Marcello, Tony Carollo, and Frank Gagliano, all of which had been confirmed since the 1960s. This is interesting given that NO did apparently open their books after 1968 and at least Mario Marino in Las Vegas was introduced to Fratianno. It speaks to the fact that even by the 1980s the FBI struggled to get inside info on NO.
Not including the older generation of deported members who were in flux, the only confirmed members by the late 1960s who can confidently be described as current NO members were Carlos Marcello, Tony Carollo, and Frank Gagliano, with Tumminello as another possibility and suspected consigliere Jimmy Campo a fairly good bet. This doesn't mean there weren't more and Joe Marcello would be another candidate though I could see his suspected status coming through his relationship to his brother and his actual membership coming after the books opened in late 1968.
Very possible some other identifications will surface in the future, buried in some report like we've seen in other Families, but we can't confidently say there were other made members of NO in the late 1960s beyond these names and the existence of remote members like the Rizzutos who lived in NO while maintaining affiliation elsewhere might change certain assumptions a bit.
Ray DeCarlo's recorded reference to the Poretto father and son could be interpreted too as one or both of them being members as mentioned in the episode but it's hard to gauge whether he was definitively identifying them as members or if they were simply New Orleans figures he knew, member(s) or not. I'd consider at least the father a good possibility based on that reference but truly who knows. Even when taking a liberal approach to some of these references we are still looking at a Family with fewer than ten members during the period in question based on the leads we have.
A name I forgot to include is Sam Tumminello, who shows up on some 1960s lists as a member but is not included on the more "definitive" list of confirmed members circa 1968. His heritage appears to have been Cefalu in Palermo province and it's not clear who identified him as a member nor why he's left off later lists. It's possible his identification was based on more speculative info, not sure.
Tumminello also doesn't appear on the FBI's 1985 list of confirmed NO members. The only members on that list in fact are Carlos Marcello, Tony Carollo, and Frank Gagliano, all of which had been confirmed since the 1960s. This is interesting given that NO did apparently open their books after 1968 and at least Mario Marino in Las Vegas was introduced to Fratianno. It speaks to the fact that even by the 1980s the FBI struggled to get inside info on NO.
Not including the older generation of deported members who were in flux, the only confirmed members by the late 1960s who can confidently be described as current NO members were Carlos Marcello, Tony Carollo, and Frank Gagliano, with Tumminello as another possibility and suspected consigliere Jimmy Campo a fairly good bet. This doesn't mean there weren't more and Joe Marcello would be another candidate though I could see his suspected status coming through his relationship to his brother and his actual membership coming after the books opened in late 1968.
Very possible some other identifications will surface in the future, buried in some report like we've seen in other Families, but we can't confidently say there were other made members of NO in the late 1960s beyond these names and the existence of remote members like the Rizzutos who lived in NO while maintaining affiliation elsewhere might change certain assumptions a bit.
Ray DeCarlo's recorded reference to the Poretto father and son could be interpreted too as one or both of them being members as mentioned in the episode but it's hard to gauge whether he was definitively identifying them as members or if they were simply New Orleans figures he knew, member(s) or not. I'd consider at least the father a good possibility based on that reference but truly who knows. Even when taking a liberal approach to some of these references we are still looking at a Family with fewer than ten members during the period in question based on the leads we have.
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Excellent another great piece of content so quickly after the last one. My favourite in this genre!!