Amuso is a Brooklyn guy. None of the alleged ruling panel or administration guys are from Brooklyn. All of his old Brooklyn guys were shelved. Would a real boss allow that to happen? If anything he is boss in name only. A real boss in prison is Carmine Persico. He has his son, brother, cousins etc run the family. That shows he has control. Gotti had his son and brother running the family.
Peter Gotti is (now) a boss in name only. While I don't think Amuso has ironclad control of the family, in addition to having the official boss title, I don't think he's as powerless as many just seem to assume.
In a lot of ways this becomes an academic question. It seems like, for some, the boss is whoever is running things on the street at a given time, title or no title. They would possibly be ones to argue Galante really was the boss while Rastelli was in prison despite not having the title.
