SShelf was always a tool that a boss had in every borgata as far as I know.

The problem is that when you shelf a guy
You take away his rackets and his ability to earn and alot of guys get bitter an they flip because they were put on the shelf.

A few examples are:

Mikey Scars, Joe Campnaellla

There are many more those two come to mind right away.

22021 murder is really a thing of the past so really the only re-course is the shelf.

I read somewhere that the Bonnano's you are referring to had attempted to take over the family that's why Mancusco, put them on th shelf, as soon as he came out of prison.

That sin may not be so easily forgiven.

With that said look at how a similar situation was handled in 81 when three renegade captains of the Bonanno family tried to take over the family, they were blown to bits.

Now a days murder is too risky

Look at the Luchese family they whacked Meldish and that took the whole Hierarchy off the street and by the way they were lucky that Londonio didnt flip he may have brought down the rest of that BX crew.

II betcha they all wish now that theyvwoukd have just thrown Meldish a hospital beaten and chased him away, that's what you do with non made guys you dont shelf them you Chase them, you banish them from the family.

Create, Crea's Son, and Madonna would probably still have been on the street had they not chose to whack Meldish.

Same thing with Bascino and Randy, they whacked him instead of chasing him and because of that it took out Mancusco, Cicale and got Bascino life

Big MISTAKE on the part of Bascino