Only way that could have happened would be for him to take a lowly capo position and be satisfied with some rackets. For him that probably was impossible because he was the one who helped set up the pipeline from Canada. He just felt too much belonged to him and he wasn't going to ask for it back once he got out of jail.

What a Carlo Gambino would have probably done is get out of jail, take a lower position as capo, and then beef to the Commission to stage a coup and reclaim the pipeline & underboss spot.

"For us, rubbin'out a Mustache was just like makin' way for a new building, like we was in the construction business."