It seems that Frank Mari and Michael Adamo made a “power play” for the leadership, seizing it without the official sanction of the Commission.
Francesco (Frankie T) Mari – aka “Frank Russo” – was born in 1926 in the town of Scilla in Reggio, Calabria. His family immigrated when Frank was a baby to the Lower East Side of Manhattan where he grew up at 124 and 68 Forsythe St.
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