This would make a lot of sense. The current Philly family is as much the Philly family as the Luciano Family is the Morellos. A distant relative without a clear line of succession. During the Scarfo days Ligambi was an outsider who had only recently gotten made. Stanfa had been an outsider the whole time. With a whole new set of players, there really is two crime families. The Scarfo Family and the Merlino Family. One came to prominence when the other went to jail. The old guys don't even fit in anymore, they had such long jail sentences and as we can see there's split loyalties and confusion.