WI Apalachin Meeting Goes Better?

Supposing this meeting goes off without problems; how is mob history affected? Does Vito Genovese reign as PM of the Underworld longer? What else? And do these changes in mob history have wider implications?
 
I'm not sure how crime would be affected, but if knowledge of the Mafia is delayed from the public... Hoover will have a lot to answer for, which could have big implications for COINTELPRO.
 
^^Oh yeah! Especially as I see another PoD taking his ally Lansky from wounded to fucked. And now that I read over the bios, another PoD hits me -- Frank Costello doesn't turn his head in 57! This would leave Gambino with no allies but Luciano, and he's in Italy.

Genovese could stand unopposed...

CONSOLIDATION: There's also the tricky question of the mafia's internal prohibition against narcotics -- if it ever existed in the first place, it'd come to a sooner end under Genovese...
 
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As far as I can tell, it was mostly about not being able to control the source, and keeping it out of Little Italies, than an aversion to opiates and cocaine as a source of revenue in actual principle.

That's why it was associated more with Harlem and likes of Elsworth "Bumpy" Johnson and Frank Lucas; because those guys were more willing to take those sorts of risks, and seemed to have fewer reservations about $#|++ing where they lived, so to speak. (Of course, those two at least tended to pay "taxes" to whichever family the local Capo then headed, it's not like Cosa Nostra's prohibition had any real meaning,) Of course, then Cocaine and the Colombia cartels in the late '70s and '80s happend, and thoroughly blindsided everyone...
 
Would those Cartels still happen TTL? The Colombians may have a monopoly on Coco Leaves, but could La Cosa Nostra fight their influx, maybe even pushing an alternate upper drug (say, meth maybe)?

CONSOLIDATION: Another thought -- could Crazy Joe Gallo become a major boss TTL?
 
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Would those Cartels still happen TTL? The Colombians may have a monopoly on Coco Leaves, but could La Cosa Nostra fight their influx, maybe even pushing an alternate upper drug (say, meth maybe)?
The Colombians would eventually overwhelm the Mob anyway, just too much money in cocaine. They move it to markets the Mob doesn't control, like Northern Europe and Asia, then use the money to break the Mob's control of a few port cities in the US later.

Delaying the epidemic of crack use for who knows how long.
 
The Colombians would eventually overwhelm the Mob anyway, just too much money in cocaine. They move it to markets the Mob doesn't control, like Northern Europe and Asia, then use the money to break the Mob's control of a few port cities in the US later.

Delaying the epidemic of crack use for who knows how long.

Which means better outcomes for most of the inner cities of the US; you won't be combining the twin blows of crack and the disappearance of manufacturing jobs, they will be staggered out. Maybe things will be improving when crack hits? One can only hope.
 
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