When Nikki returned home after Christmas, she would spend the next month focusing on attempting to expand her crew. For the operation she wanted to pursue, having five other women and a handful of men simply wasn’t going to cut it. Her goal was to find as many women as she could, making her outfit unique. The problem was finding those women, though. Certainly she could not find any more at school, she had gotten lucky twice before, a third time was highly unlikely. Before finding more foot soldiers, though, Nikki wanted to find a few more captains to go along with Al and Greta and then task them with building their own individual crews. In late January, Esposito invited his underboss, Carmine Barone, over for dinner. With Stefania staying at a friend’s house, it meant a night with Christina -- a mother of two young children -- whom she had become cordial with during the previous year. Since it was a night in, Nikki wore a tight red sleeveless turtleneck tucked into a pai...