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.
Why was Roy DeMeo inducted into the Gambino family? Huge earner.
Sure Sam was a loose canon, but that they could deal with as long as his juice rackets generated huge amounts of money. At the time of his passing though, with Ricca gone and with increasing pressure from the G - combined with sams increasing mental instability - he was considered a consumed resource.
Money was everything with these guys.
