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Carmine
Galante was one of the most important attendees at the Palermo,
Sicily, Hotel des Palmes Summit the past October
14-October
17
and would be important to the Apalachin Summit being that he was
the U.S. La Cosa Nostra's Montreal "representation"
for all narcotics operations being directed through the port city.
Identified as a guest staying at the estate by Joe Barbara's
housekeeper. Galante had also been stopped and arrested by
Pennsylvania police on October
17,
1956,
allegedly coming from a meeting at Barbara's estate.



Frank
Garofalo was semi-retired in Sicily as of 1956 and came back
specifically for the Apalachin Summit, having been one of the
attendees at the Palermo, Sicily-Hotel des Palmes Summit the past
October
14-October
17
and would most certainly brief the Bosses on the outcome of the
Palermo Summit. Garofalo was registered at a local motel.



Brother-in-law
of Buffalo Family Boss Stefano Magaddino, registered at local
motel.



Former
Albert Anastasia Consigliere, conspired to kill Anastasia with
Carlo Gambino and Joseph Riccobono. Expected to explain the
reasons for the Anastasia hit and the current situation between
the new Anastasia/Gambino Family hierarchy and the faction still
loyal to Anastasia.



1st
and 2nd in command, Lucchese and his allies supported Carlo
Gambino and his assassination of Albert Anastasia and ascension to
Boss of the Family.



Commission
member who helped Vito Genovese arrange the Summit at Barbara's
house, his clothes contained his name in them when they were found
in a car in Joseph Barbara's barn.



1st
and 2nd in command, Sam Giancana was a Commission member and had
just recently been promoted to Boss of the Outfit by former Boss
and new Consigliere, Anthony "Joe Batters" Accardo.
Giancana would take this opportunity to meet with all the other
Family Bosses and introduce his new Underboss, Ferraro. Giancana
was overheard just days after the Summit on an FBI wire talking to
Stefano "The Undertaker" Magaddino about "our
guys being caught" and "that it wouldn't have
happened in Chicago, we have a whole county locked up tight".
Magaddino cowardly replied "you bet it wouldn't have Sam".



Joe
Zerilli was not yet at the Barbara estate, he was late. he most
likely noticed the roadblock on the way to the meeting or was
still at the motel and heard what happened on the radio. He used
his driver’s license to rent a car in the Binghamton area
and used it to get home on November
14,
1957.



They
were identified by a local business owner as the two men who used
his phone to call a taxi.



2nd
in command to Boss Michael Abati who at the time was fighting a
deportation order, Lanza was registered at a local motel with San
Jose Family Underboss, Joseph Cerrito. Mike Abati was deported on
July
8,
1961.
Lanza becomes his successor and the Family's most famous Boss.



Registered
at the local Arlington Motel with his 2 Capos, Michael Genovese
and Gabriel "Kelly" Mannarino, their bills charged to
Barbara's Canada Dry Bottling Company.



2nd
in command to Boss Onofrio Sciortino who was ill, Cerrito was
registered at a local motel with San Francisco Boss, James Lanza.
Joe Cerrito becomes Boss of the Family after Sciortino's death in
1959.



2nd
in command, registered at a local motel. Family Boss, John Aloito
was grooming his son in law Frank Balistrieri as his successor,
Balistrieri uses the Apalachin Summit to introduce himself to all
the Bosses from across the United States. In 1961 Aloito retires
so Balistrieri can assume the top position. Frank "Frankie
Bal" Balistrieri becomes Milwaukee's most famous underworld
Boss.



2nd
in command to Boss Antonio Musso who was ill, Zammuto was
registered at a local motel. Tony Musso dies 1958 and Joe Zammuto
becomes Boss of the Family. It is now called the Zammuto Family.
The Rockford Family has always been a Chicago Outfit faction.



Curly
Montana is registered at a local motel with Boss John Scalish.



2nd
in command, Joe Campisi is registered at a local motel with Boss
Joe Civello, who was detained at Barbara's estate. Joe Campisi
became the Family Boss after Joe Civello retires to Florida in
1968. Civello dies in 1970.



2nd
in command, Vincenzo is James "Black Jim" Colletti's
brother. Vincenzo is registered with James at a local motel, he
escapes the police at Barbara's estate, but his brother James is
picked up walking down a road near the estate.



Al
Angelicola is registered at a local motel with other known
mafiosi, his Family affiliation is unknown.



Louis
Greco was a Montreal Sicilian who was 2nd in command to Calabrian
Boss Vic "The Egg" Cotroni. In 1953 Greco and his top
aide Frank Petrula go to Sicily to arrange heroin shipments with
Charlie "Lucky" Luciano. Giuseppe "Pep"
Cotroni was the brother of Boss Vic Cotroni and the Lt. in charge
of narcotics operations for the Family. The Montreal Family was
considered the Bonanno Family Canadian Faction. Joe Bonanno had
just returned from the U.S.-Sicilian La Cosa Nostra Summit in
Palermo, Sicily at the Hotel des Palmes on October
14-October
17,
1957.
One of the topics to be discussed at Apalachin was about the
Sicilians taking control of the importation of narcotics while the
U.S. La Cosa Nostra would handle wholesale distribution . Montreal
is the North American transit way for narcotics shipments into the
U.S., that's why Montreal had representatives at the Apalachin
Summit.



Don
Giuseppe Settacase was sent over as a representative of the
Sicilian La Cosa Nostra Clans wishing to export narcotics to the
United States. He was present at the Palermo, Sicily Summit on 14
October-17,
1957 and was highly respected as a mediator. Don Giuseppe
Settacase mentor to the most powerful and wealthy Sicilian Clans
in the Agrigento province and Sicilian La Cosa Nostra, the
Siculiana-Caruana-Cuntrera Family and the Cattolica
Eraclea-Rizzuto Family, who would become superpowers in the global
narcotics and money laundering trade and rule mafia empires. After
the Apalachin Summit, both the Canadian and Sicilian La Cosa
Nostra were heard talking on R.C.M.P. and FBI wiretaps about how
embarrassed the American La Cosa Nostra looked to their peers for
the screw up at Apalachin.