@IvyLeague, So is it possible for a captain to be on a ruling panel while an underboss is still in-place, but that captain has more power because he's on the ruling panel?
@Regoparker100, Tino Fiumaro def had alot of power. A captain, who was on the ruling panel, and some say he was set to be Boss? Or is that incorrect?
It's on a case-by-case basis in each family. Alphonse D'Arco was promoted to acting boss of the Lucchese family in 1990 while Amuso and Gaspipe were on the lam, only to be "pulled down" or demoted when he bungled the hit on Chiodo in 1991.
Fiumara was on the Genovese ruling panel until his death in 2010, and was a possible candidate to be the boss after the Chin died in 2005, from what I saw. The family itself did have Jerry Catena (who was the head of the New Jersey faction in the 1950s, and was underboss to Vito Genovese) on the ruling panel in the 1960s and 1970s.
