Seems like DeStefano's arrival as a capo rank in Syracuse was because of avoid left in the gambling in Syracuse by the early 1960s as part of the fallout in Utica/Rome/Syracuse because of Appalachia..Maggadino must have seen it as an opportunity to move DeStefano into the area from Fulton after the government had cracked down on the biggest gambling operations in Syracuse were shut down and as some of them had died off.

Maybe DeStefano came with a few of his own crew in Fulton and inherited what maybe the government left in shambles of the early operators of gambling,as well as inheriting younger guys just coming up at that time.Eventually recruiting other bookmakers one by one to join in in some capacity or the other