Sonny had it as bad as anyone in the life.
I do not know when he was put up to skipper but don't matter cos he went right back to jail and lost his crew on many occasions.(did not keep it also cos the boss changed twice)in the time he was away.But way back he did do a lot with guys from the old country.I do not want to say he had a crew of them ,but they were with him.

He may have been a soldier but he had a crew of mixed nationalities that did a lot of work for him ,then they all flipped.

Then on top of it he went through 8 or 10 different bosses some that did not like him.And he was herd on wire i think talking about Michael (not bad ) but none the less,was herd...

Then his son puts him in jail. The only thing I think that did not happen to him was that ass Scarpa sr. did not rat on him cos he was away most of the time when Scarpa sr. was destroying that family from the inside out..

Scarpa did more damage then any one person in any family...