After he was convicted and sentenced to prison forever how did he hold onto power in the family? Where did his muscle come from? His brother was in prison, Sammy had flipped! Frank deccico was long dead, his consig was in jail with him, son and older brother were both considered unworthy of such high positions. Who did he have to enforce his will? Or was it also a situation where that family had been so weakened by that point that no one in his family was strong enough or wanted to step up n take the thrown