It could be that maybe Profacis prestige granted him a kind of seniority?
Prestice in what exactly, olive oil? Profaci's family may have been the youngest and possibly an offshoot of the Gambinos. As for seniority, he was of the same age as the other bosses and nothing special compared to them. A decade before he became boss he was a merchant selling fruit.
"It was between the brothers Kay -- I had nothing to do with it."
