If Ricca made Sam, he must have been nuts or drunk at the moment. The guy was crazier than Casso, Kuklinski and Pitera put together. Why would the mafia need this kind of members? Even some serial killers have more self control than Mad Sam did.
Sam was a big earner only for what he really was. During the 1960's, in Chicago the organization has lost its prime operations such as bookmaking and the policy racket and the only racket which still brought large ammounts of cash was the juice lending and Sam was on top of it. But the problem was that during that "hot" period Sam was making things even worse by going publicly. Most of the guys of that era were very violent and psychotic. For example Sam Battaglia, the one time boss of the Outfit, had fist fights with cops on the open streets.
