1.  Alphonse Persico was recognized as acting boss by the Colombo gang last year.

2.  Anthony Spero, whom prosecutors described as the former acting boss of the Bonanno family, is also one of the defendants in the trial.

3.  Acting boss?

4.  According to federal investigators, John A. Gotti took over as acting boss of the Gambino crime family shortly after his father was convicted.

5.  Federal and state officials have identified Dominick V. Cirillo, a longtime capo, or captain, as the acting Genovese boss.

6.  Fiorino, court papers show, is the brother-in-law of Liborio Bellomo, the reputed acting boss of the Genovese crime family.

7.  He made a lot of widows, but one of the worst things I ever saw him do was make his son acting boss.

8.  His family lives in a house in Queens owned by the brother of Nicholas Corozzo, the acting Gambino boss, according to the FBI.

9.  It said that one, Anthony D. Fiorino, is the brother-in-law of Barney Bellomo, who is believed to be the acting boss of the Genovese crime family.

10.  Mouw described the younger Gotti as an inept leader in his five years as acting boss, antagonizing veteran members of the Gambino and other Mafia families.