Calabrese, Marcello, & Lombardo getting locked up for good was a blessing for the modern Outfit, those guys were ticking time bombs that have no place in the DiFronzo era.
This is actually a good, insightful point. At least with respect to Calabrese (a serial killer who couldn't stop giggling during his trial) and maybe Marcello (some speculate that the Jarrett and Chiaramonti hits were part of new a hardline policy advocated by Marcello). Probably not Lombardo though - he seems to have been rather harmless by the time Family Secrets rolled around.
Maybe we can call the current nonviolent era the "Pax DiFronzo"?
Whats up with Marcello being made; because of his younger age than Lombardo?
Marcello was a "legacy" gangster, in that his dad was a mob guy and might have been made (not sure about that). If your father's in it's pretty easy to get in yourself.
In one of the weirder developments during Family Secrets, it came out that Marcello's dad had been whacked (by I think one of his extortion victims, who was later killed by the Outfit). Until then, James Marcello had publicly maintained that his father had been killed in a car wreck.
