First, nobody said the Outfit is defunct. It's still considered a viable family. Second, the DeCavalcantes supposedly had about 60 members at their peak years ago.

In terms of total manpower, Chicago is actually bigger even though New Jersey has more members. Chicago is said to have 25-30 made members and a little over 100 associates; putting it's total manpower at about 150. New Jersey is said to have 40-50 members but only about 50 associates, which puts them at about 100. As I've said before, I don't put a lot of stock in associate estimate but if we're making comparisons, those are the official numbers.

Also, the last ceremony Nick Calabrese said he was aware of was in the late 1980's. However, considering Mike Sarno is made, I think they would have had to have other ceremonies after that. At least I don't recall seeing Sarno identified with any of those ceremonies we learned about in the 1980's.