# Genovese family Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/families/genovese/ The chart is still empty. Twelve person pages, from Luciano to Gigante, quote what federal records say about each figure's place in the family, and this page sorts those statements by kind: court finding, the government's proof as a court summarizes it, charge, testimony, chart exhibit, Attorney General's statement, or FBI file. This page is a hub for the family the 1963 Senate record names for Vito Genovese, and for the men later records place in it. The chart above stays empty: no record filed here is a cited, separate decision to place a name in a seat. Each person page below quotes the strongest statement a record makes about that person's place, and those statements are of different kinds. - **Court finding.** A federal court's own finding of fact, after hearing evidence. The strongest kind here. - **What the government established, as a court summarizes it.** An appeals court stating what the prosecution proved at trial. The court affirmed on that record, but the sentence describes the government's proof. - **Charge.** An indictment, civil complaint or detention proffer, as a court summarized it. An allegation, not a finding. - **Testimony.** Sworn testimony as printed: Joseph Valachi and NYPD Deputy Chief Inspector John Shanley in 1963, FBI officials in 1988, and trial witnesses as a court summarized them. A witness's "yes" to counsel's question counts as testimony; the question alone does not. Quotations from the 1963 hearings correct obvious errors in the scan's text layer; the person pages note each correction. - **Chart exhibit.** A name printed on the 1963 subcommittee's Exhibit 8 or Charts A to E. A chart entry is the committee's or the police department's summary; it never fills a role or a seat here. - **Attorney General's statement.** Robert F. Kennedy's prepared statement to the subcommittee in 1963. An official statement, not testimony about events he saw. - **FBI memo or history page.** The Bureau's own memoranda, reports and teletypes, often relaying informants, and its later history essays. ## The person pages The order is roughly that of the records' dates. It is not a succession chart. - [Charles Luciano](/people/charles-luciano/): asked "did Luciano take over as boss" after Maranzano's killing, Valachi answered "Yes, he did." Testimony (1963). The New York Court of Appeals' "head of this enterprise" (1938) concerns a vice combination, in a state case. - [Frank Costello](/people/frank-costello/): "At least he was second in command at one time." Testimony (NYPD, 1963). The Attorney General called him a "deposed New York rackets boss." Neither names the family. - [Vito Genovese](/people/vito-genovese/): "we will start with Vito Genovese, with Jerry Catena, that is my family," and "Vito Genovese is a boss of all bosses under the table." Testimony (Valachi, 1963). The Second Circuit's "one of its principal directing heads" (1960) is a court finding about a narcotics conspiracy, not the family. - [Thomas Eboli](/people/thomas-eboli/): "the acting boss apparently is Tommy Eboli." Testimony (NYPD, 1963). A 1985 FBI teletype states he was acting boss in July 1972. FBI memo. The chart's "acting boss" is a chart exhibit. - [Gerardo Catena](/people/gerardo-catena/): asked "Who is the underboss under Genovese?", Valachi answered "Jerry Catena." Testimony (1963). - [Michele Miranda](/people/michele-miranda/): counsel to the organization, "on big decisions he is consulted." Testimony (NYPD, 1963). The chart's "Consigliere" is a chart exhibit. - [Anthony Strollo](/people/anthony-strollo/): "Tony Bender is the new lieutenant we have." Testimony (Valachi, 1963). It describes the years after 1931. - [Joseph Valachi](/people/joseph-valachi/): "that is my family." Testimony (1963), about himself. - [Philip Lombardo](/people/philip-lombardo/): "at that time the 'Boss' of the Genovese Family" (1977). Charge: the government's 1986 detention proffer, as the district court summarized it. - [Anthony Salerno](/people/anthony-salerno/): "The government established that from the late 1970s until 1985, Salerno was first acting boss and subsequently boss of the Genovese family." What the government established, as the Second Circuit summarizes it (1989). The 1986 detention ruling's finding that he was "the head, or 'Boss,' of an organization" is a court finding on the bail question. - [Vincent Gigante](/people/vincent-gigante/): "After Salerno was indicted and arrested in 1985 Gigante became the Boss in title as well as in fact." Court finding (1996), made on the competency question; the sentencing court in 1997 wrote that the evidence showed it "without a reasonable doubt." - [Venero Mangano](/people/venero-mangano/): Gigante and Mangano, "the Boss and Underboss of the Genovese Family." Court finding (1996), in Gigante's case. ## What the chart still waits for The seats are Boss, Underboss and Consigliere. The statements above that put one of those titles on a named man for this family are of three kinds. The court findings are those for Gigante as boss from 1985 and for Venero Mangano as underboss beside him; the Commission appeal's account of what the government established covers Salerno as acting boss and then boss; and the 1963 testimony names Genovese, Catena as underboss, and Miranda as counsel. Each holds for its own period, and none of them is yet a separate, cited decision on this page. The Salerno opinion's account in particular stays on [its own page](/items/us-v-salerno-868-f2d-524/). A name goes into a seat only by such a decision. The Five Families section's other pages are [Gambino](/families/gambino/), [Lucchese](/families/lucchese/), [Colombo](/families/colombo/), [Bonanno](/families/bonanno/) and [the Commission](/families/commission/).