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Are we sure that Steve O'Lenehan was an associate of the deCavalcante crime family?????? I don't believe that. I bet you O'Lenehen himself put that in there. I thought the people he was trying to hang around were the Philly crew, and they wouldn't take him. My call? Wikipedia should list him as an associate of the Real Deal family.
I also think it would be useful to have a "Flipped/Ratted Out" listing, particularly for this family.
Batman
- Okay, somebody has pointed out to me that O'Lenehan knew Jack Panels - or CLAIMED to know Jack Panels (in the notorious Scott D interview), so I guess that does sorta barely qualify the guy for associate status with the deCavalcantes. But it is my personal belief that the guy was just a low-level knockaround guy that nobody would take on permanently as an associate, so he just bounced around from crew to crew and family to family (Philly/Scarfo crews and deCavalcante crews), trying to get work wherever he could, from whoever would take him at any given time. That's my call. Batman
Okay, this has been discussed on some of the chat boards. I think we are all agreed that Steve's status should be "associate of an associate". He wasn't a formal associate of any made guy - he was palling around with other associates, trying to get taken on. Thus "associate of an associate" seems to be the agreed upon status. Batman.
"The Sopranos" is based on this family. Where does the 80-100 made men and 1500 associates figure come from?The most optimistic mob insiders place the DeCavalcante crime family at 60 made men tops.And also,the DeCavalcantes are known to keep a low number of associates for everymember(1:1 ratio) so the 1500 associates figure is waaay off Mrblonde7 (talk) 21:19, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Unscholarly Content
The majority of offenses used to construct the image of the DeCavalcante "family" as part of a larger organised conspiracy to commit criminal acts are alleged, and cannot form the basis of scholarly facts. This "article," reads more like a true-crime, or yellow journalistic piece, and probably has no place in an encyclopaedic work. Turning this articles improper "facts" into more suitable, sourced "allegations" could probably remedy the problem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.13.58.155 (talk) 18:24, 11 August 2009 (UTC)