your right about the feds having more resources. Angelo Bruno was the right type of person for his time. He came up when the community was still a sort of immigrant community and mostly everyone either working with or for him would just do as they were told because thats just how it was if they wanted to survive. He gave them what he wanted to not really what they wanted. Then when drugs came around people underneath him started to see the money they could make within a short amount time and also the power that comes with it. He should have just let his family deal drugs rather than trying to ban it, i know it brings heat but at the end of the day he was not running a play school. I think he got a little too over confident in his title that he forgot that the people that work for him were a bunch of sociopathic murderers and criminals like himself. Then you had a guy like scarfo who was perfect for the family which was in dissaray at the time as someone that could take control and maintain it even if he was a psychopath he did what he needed to do.He was on tv and people knew who he was. he gave them a fearsome rep as well as a sort of fame. Merlino more than stanfa was the same in many respects even if they didn't last as long. Ligambi seems to have backtracked when there are still people that are used to doing things the way they did during the scarfo era. Being part of the ligambi family just doesn't carry the same notoriety or weight in their minds as scarfo did.