yeah i think thats an important distinction between what the outfit bosses used as counsel as opposed to some other families. monteleone could have had at his disposal for advice; difronzo, tornabene and even potentially for a time angelo lapietra, although it seems lapietra was fairly sick 1997-1999 death. i'm sure other family bosses went for advice to other senior members outside the official consigliere position on all kinds of matters, but with monteleone and the outfit it would appear he relied on difronzo and tornabene specifically.

during this monteleone era the leadership had some big decisions to make. someone or someones ordered the hit on ronnie jarrett in 1999.
the outfit as a whole was reeling from indictment after indictment in the mid 1990s as well as losing power in both LIUNA and teamster locals. certainly wasnt just monteleone dealing with all this turmoil in a bubble.
anthony chiaramonti gets released in 1998 and quickly gets to work for melrose park crew, similar to mike sarno being released in 1999. what territory are they allotted if any? who do they report to etc.
as we get closer to 2000s and the rise of marcello, how was his elevation going to be handled on the street by his crew, was his ascension only at time of monteleones death?
who would assume mantle in acting capacity upon monteleones death. the consensus being tornabene as has been said above and elsewhere.
also there is the indicments of very profitable cicero crew led by mike spano sr in july 2000 and centracchio in may 1999, then again in apr 2000. these 2 leaders, whose official title is up for debate were none the less running very profitable rackets. who would be charged with replacing them and assuming their territory.

i could go on but just a few examples across chicago and crews where we can see the need for a boss to have more than one advisor depending on the crew and situation.

i left tornabene as leader only because we dont really know what his title was officially. we know the crew and that he was a respected leader in it so i left it at that.