Stanfa was a puppet boss, before he camed to philliy he was a new york guy, merlino is philly nostra through and through and those south philly guys don't like outsiders

"McGurn likes you, so I make you. So you are now one of us, if you fuck up, we take it out on McGurn. He is your sponsor. Fuck up, it's his ass. You work in his crew, he is your capo."