Editing Salvatore Maranzano (section)

=== Boss of all bosses ===
With Masseria gone, Maranzano reorganized the Italian American gangs in New York City into the [[Five Families]], headed by Luciano, [[Joe Profaci]], [[Tommy Gagliano]], [[Vincent Mangano]], and himself.<ref name=fivefamilies/> Each family would have a [[crime boss|boss]], [[underboss]], [[caporegime|capos]], [[soldato|soldiers]], and associates. The families ("[[Made man|made men]]") would be composed of only full-blooded Italian American members, while associates could come from any background.<ref name="A Chronicle of Bloodletting">{{cite news|title=A Chronicle of Bloodletting|url=http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,902999-1,00.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204191146/http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,902999-1,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 4, 2013|access-date=31 October 2012|newspaper=[[Time Magazine]]|date=July 12, 1971}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Dash|first=Mike|title=The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia|year=2010|publisher=Ballantine Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0-345-52357-0|pages=384–386}}</ref><ref name=fivefamilies/> However, Maranzano called a meeting of crime bosses in [[Wappingers Falls, New York]], and declared himself ''[[capo dei capi]]'' ("boss of all bosses").<ref name=fivefamilies/> Maranzano also whittled down the rival families' rackets in favor of his own. Luciano appeared to accept these changes, but was merely biding his time before removing Maranzano.<ref name=MafEnc /> Although Maranzano was slightly more forward-thinking than Masseria, Luciano had come to believe that Maranzano was even greedier and more hidebound than Masseria had been.<ref name=fivefamilies/><ref name="ff28">Raab, pp. 28-29</ref><ref name="MafEnc">{{cite book |title=The Mafia Encyclopedia |url=https://archive.org/details/mafiaencyclopedi00sifa |url-access=registration |last=Sifakis |first=Carl |year=1987 |publisher=Facts on File |location=[[New York City]] |isbn=978-0-8160-1856-7 }}</ref>

Maranzano's scheming, his arrogant treatment of his subordinates and his fondness for comparing his organization to the Roman Empire (he attempted to model the organization after Caesar's military [[command hierarchy|chain of command]]) did not sit well with Luciano and his ambitious friends, such as [[Vito Genovese]], [[Frank Costello]] and others.<ref name="ff28"/> Despite his advocacy for modern methods of organization, including crews of soldiers doing the bulk of a family's illegal work under the supervision of a ''[[caporegime]]'', at heart Maranzano was a "[[Mustache Pete]]" — an old-school mafioso too steeped in Old World ways. He was opposed to Luciano's partnership with Jewish gangsters such as [[Meyer Lansky]] and [[Bugsy Siegel|Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel]]. Luciano and his colleagues had intended all along to bide their time before getting rid of Maranzano.<ref name="MafEnc"/>