Editing Maranzano crime family (section)

==Succession from Schiro==
Nicolo Schiro had led the Williamsburg family since 1912. By 1930, pressure from Giuseppe Masseria and internal Castellammarese mobilization caused Schiro to withdraw. David Critchley writes that Schiro's removal “led to Maranzano assuming control of the Schiro Family.”<ref name="Critchley">David Critchley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA178 ''The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931''] (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 178–194.</ref>

This was a leadership takeover and wartime reorganization of an existing borgata—not the creation of a completely new family from unrelated gangs. The defensible sequence is:

:[[Williamsburg Gang|DiGaetano-led Williamsburg group]] → [[Schiro crime family]] → Maranzano family → Bonanno crime family.

Maranzano's own power base included members inherited from Schiro, more recent Castellammarese immigrants and men recruited for the conflict. Those categories overlapped but were not identical.