If they didn’t ever reopen the books, the 5 Families of NYC and the other remaining existing Families would be extinct right now, as we speak! Of course they let several undesirables in who did damage to LCN, but hey sometimes that's the price they pay in order to continue existing.
They barley exist in the way they did back in the 1950's. So what if they stopped existing by now? They let in too many unqualified men when they reopened the books.
