NYM - do you know when and how long for did he continue the status of Capo, and also both who took control of his crew and also his gambling empire?
As discussed, Jimmy acquire his "button" very late in life. But once he got there he was almost immediately bumped up to a capos post and remained at that level for the better part of the remainder of his life.
And as I wrote, by the time his day in the sun was over, there was basically no gambling "empire" left of his to take over. NYS had long ago legalized "off-track" horse betting, his numbers biz went out the window with the advent of LOTTO a few years later, and by the late 1970s, legalized gambling had come to Atlantic City, and later, Connecticut.
