Reading The Sixth Family, hearing the wiretaps and various articles, there's no doubt in my mind Bravo & Desjardin's were "made" by Rizzuto. Just look at the photo's in the Sixth Family book, there's one with Vito, Joe Bravo and Frank Campoli, who I believe is also made into that organization and married to Vito's wife's cousin, and other made guys, and it's Fernandez who's seated right next to Rizzuto, while the Italian who's married into his family is standing behind them two. Whatever the case, Fernandez had some clout within that organization, he went to Sicily and the fact that it took him that long and apparently Rizzuto's say for him to get clipped, shows that he wasn't killed for claiming to be a made man, nobody fucked with Vito it seems. It seems they knew his reputation and let him do whatever he pleased, Fernandez wasn't a slouch himself. The guy was made, IMO, and he got clipped for trying to play both sides of the fence, like anyone else in that sort of situation in the criminal underworld would, once they're found out.