Talk:Vito Genovese
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Y'know, I just don't get why Mob murders are being dignified as "assassinations". They're just murders, killings, hits... Trekphiler 07:16, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
I believe there is a problem with the "Rise to Power" part of the article. There are two diffirent versions of Genovese's flee to İtaly. Why didn't the user which write the second version erase the first version if it is incorrect? I didn't make any changes because I don't know which version is true but I think this part should be corrected by an expert.
This article needs a major clean up and alleged fictional works like "The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano" were relied on way too heavily. Most records actually shwo that Luciano and Genovese never had problems with each other, though Luciano was quoted in Italy as saying "Costello once shined my shoes and was happy to do it" and was widely seen as having a rift with Costello, not Genovese. Again, proper research and not quoting authors who made things up or did bad research themselves would help wikipedia improve.
Another matter would be that a 1930 article on Vito genoves ein the New York Times reveals that he was considered a major gang leader on the West Side of Manhattan by that time period and owned a summer home in Long Island. So whereas many see him as Luciano's side-kick/henchman it is pretty obvious that he was a power in his own right in the Masseria organization.. The charge was actually counterfeiting and the journalists couldn't help but point out that Genovese didn't learn from Lupo's mistake.
In this article, he died in New York. Did he die after he had been transported from Springfield to New York?
