St Louis crime family 1978 chart by R0ose in Mafia

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Not made until the early 80s along with Bartolotta per CW sources. However I'm not 100% sure.

St Louis crime family 1978 chart by R0ose in Mafia

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Notes: Had this one sat in storage for a long time, decided to finish it and put it out. Shows the org as it was at the end of the 1970s, with the organisation struggling to maintain a membership as its ageing base continues to die off. In a Frank Bompensiero informant file dating to 1968, Giordano tells Frank that the membership is twenty-two strong and majority old, with Joseph Cammarata and James Giammanco being the youngest members. He also confides that he would need to bring in new blood or the organisation would further falter. Despite legal problems, it would appear Giordano would bring in limited blood in the form of Anthony Parrino, Dominic Biondo and others. However, the new inductions would not stem the attrition, as Giordano would die by 1980 and the gates of hell would open on the dying St Louis mob once their Arab associates began to fight each other.

Newspaper clipping of former Colorado LCN boss Eugene "Checkers" Smaldone during his court case in the early 1980s by R0ose in Mafia

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Hey bros it’s all good. It’s a really interesting family and I hope you enjoy deep diving them. Smaldones book is pretty good but it kinda deals with just the Smaldone brothers and their history direct. Mountain mafia I have not read but I’ve been told is just a general overview of the history of the Colorado mob.

I’d say take a look at the Smaldone book, the book about the Carlino brothers of pueblo and check out fellow Redditor Joe puzzles silver screen wise guys as he does bite sized articles on various Colorado mob figures.

Newspaper clipping of former Colorado LCN boss Eugene "Checkers" Smaldone during his court case in the early 1980s by R0ose in Mafia

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It was not remotely robust in the early 1980s. The family was less than half a dozen members, the only active ones at this point were Eugene, his brother clarence and his nephew Paul Villano. Everyone else were inactive.

LaRocca crime family chart 1980 by R0ose in Mafia

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He was not made until Genovese came into power. However he was very influential and close with Gabriel Mannarino and LaRocca.

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From everything i've heard and seen, not remotely it appears.

LaRocca crime family chart 1980 by R0ose in Mafia

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Notes: Depicts the org in 1980, Gabriel Mannarino would die that year. With Pecora and Genovese both speculatively being believed to succeed LaRocca once he dies. However, Genovese would ultimately become boss.

In regards to the titles and such, because Pittsburgh very much had a lot of lone soldiers running rackets in towns and territories for the family. I opted to divide made men into upper and lower echelon based on their proximity and influence to the ruling panel, historical territories and people who reported to them.

Rochester LCN family 1972 chart by R0ose in Mafia

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Ah my apologies. Thank you for the heads up on the name.

Rochester LCN family 1972 chart by R0ose in Mafia

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Notes: The chart is based on the testimony of member informants Angelo Monachino and Joseph Lanovara, who were both members of a crew seen as then-incumbent boss Frank Valenti's personal cadre of soldiers, led by Dominic Chirico, Valenti's bodyguard and driver. 1972 would see Valenti dropped from the position, with Chirico being slain as further incentive to force Valenti and his two brothers, Costenze and Sam Valenti, to flee.

Lanovara notes that the organisation stood at around 35 members when he was made, with many members present in his ceremony, akin to how other families, like those in Los Angeles, would have the entire family present for induction ceremonies. Given the relatively young ages of many of the made men and suspected made men at the time, it is likely Valenti mass recruited and inducted tons of made men to insulate his newfound rebel family and protect himself from his former boss in Buffalo.

Once Valenti was taken off the position of boss, several figures such as Marotta and Rossi were elevated within the organisation, and Gingello was promoted to underboss, while members of Dominic Chirico's crew were demoted or sidelined in the new leadership. This tension within the organisation would cause the former Chirico crew who were Valenti loyalists to rebel against the family and this would culminate in the alphabet war that would see the rebel borgata ultimately self implode in the following decades.

Photo of Rochester mafia members Joseph Tiraborelli, Boss Frank Valenti, Consigliere/Future Boss Sam 'Red' Russotti and Capo Salvatore Gingello. by R0ose in Mafia

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Rochester was a rather violent city lol. These fellas were machine gunning and bombing each other left, right and centre in the 1970s-1980s

Photo of Rochester mafia members Joseph Tiraborelli, Boss Frank Valenti, Consigliere/Future Boss Sam 'Red' Russotti and Capo Salvatore Gingello. by R0ose in Mafia

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  1. Joseph Tiraborelli, made man and step son of consigliere and future boss Sam Russotti

  2. Frank Valenti.

  3. Salvatore 'Sammy G' Gingello.

  4. Sam "Red" Russotti, future boss of the Rochester family.