The Lucchese Family

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Amity means a mutual understanding and a peaceful relationships. They believe in a democratic system an unanimous vote for everything, they want a peaceful society that doesn’t any conflict or any sadness that they believed that were caused by instigation and war (Blogger). The Lucchese family started Carmine ‘Mr. Gribbs’ Tramunti he was in and out of prison since the 1930’s once he was released the first time in 1938 he took over a gang called the Harlem Game and could be stated the beginning of being embedded with the Lucchese family. He became the head of the family in 1967 because of the death of Thomas Lucchese and only because he was friends with Carlo Gambino. He ended up back in prison and Anthony ‘Tony Ducks’ Corallo is placed as boss …show more content…
They are known to be the most respected and greatly feared by all his subordinates. Since profit is coming in and it could be assumed that either the soldiers or the associates keep some of the money but hands most of it to the capo they have to pay tribute to the boss to stay in the family and prove they are loyal, the boss is considered extremely wealthy. Both the boss and the head grandfather basically does the same thing but the head grandfather just hold more intimidation with the other crime families. With the boss and the head grandfather they are always on the spotlight not only with their family but also with the law enforcement that want to pick them off the streets to throw them in prison. Making one minor error same with the boss that he is the the one who hands down both the instructions and the decisions that if they make one fatal flaw it could bring down the whole family. The last part of the hierarchy if the capo di tutti capi/boss of all bosses or known as the head godfather. This part of the hierarchy tends to be dissolved due to the fact of the death of Salvatore Maranzano in the 1930’s and also when ‘Lucky’ Luciano died in 1962 (StudioPress). Then they changed the boss of bosses to a de facto title which means that instead one person in charge all of the 5 crime families it will be the most powerful family which is the

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