Talk:Genovese crime family

Merger proposal

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The result of this discussion was to merge. --Vic49 (talk) 21:48, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

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I suggest merging the Morello crime family into this article's "Origins" section and creating a new section titled the "Mafia–Camorra War". --Vic49 (talk) 18:52, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

• Name of the family has already been changed from Luciano to Genovese. So its right to merge it with morello crime family. but make sure not to alter the history(do mention the family's name change) 203.91.213.69 (talk)

• Yes. As long as its not a cut and paste job, because some things need to be explained, like the points when the family slowly became more modernized. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.228.250.228 (talk) 21:58, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

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Undid merger

Frankly, how can the person who proposed the merger decide to merge after just two IP addresses participated in the discussion. The Morellos deserve their own page and their status of predecessors of the Genovese family is highly questionable. - DonCalo (talk) 14:39, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

The discussion was open for a entire year. The Morello article had no references and the gang became the Genovese crime family. when Charles Luciano took over after the murder of Masseria, some of the rackets were split up when Maranzano took over as Boss of Boss's but the family was still the old Morello family of Little Italy, East Harlem, the Bronx. --Vic49 (talk) 20:49, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Merger Proposal 2016

I suggest merging the Morello crime family into this article again. I added the history of the Morello family into this articles "Origins" and "Mafia Camorra War" sections. What became of the Morello family became the early history of the Masseria/Luciano/Genovese crime family. With the same leaders taking over the same crews (gangs) in the same locations in New York City. The Morello family was the beginning of the Sicilian Mafia's take over of New York City. Later gangs emerged from the Morello family after internal rivalry's. Masseria took over control of the Morello family while adding smaller gangs to his family's power creating a more powerful crime family.--Vic49 (talk) 19:08, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

• I oppose a merger. Masseria and Gaetano Reina were both members of the Morello gang and at roughly the same time became the leaders of their own gangs. So it might be more accurate to say the Morello gang split into the Masseria (later Genovese) and Reina (later Lucchese) gangs. If there is evidence of Reina being a boss before 1920, I may change my vote. Otherwise, it might be too confusing for casual or younger readers (wanting to learn about Morello, the barrel murder etc.) to understand in a merged article Libertybison (talk) 20:55, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

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