Scarfo had no loyal power base. The rug would have been pulled from him no matter what when he got put in prison for life. For all Joey's numerous faults as a boss, he has a group of guys he is loyal to and they give that in return.
We may never know because it may never happen again that 90% of his trusted soldiers and skippers went with him in one shot.
If you know what was really going on behind the scenes back when Bruno was boss then you know he was in worse shape if it happened to him.
Testa on the other hand my of had a chance if he would have made a move before Bruno was hit but he did not and there were to many guys wanting the top seat .
There were five or six powerful guys looking at Bruno's spot long before he was hit including many of his skippers pulling for Testa to make a move but he knew Gambino would never let it happen.
Bruno was a puppet for Gambinos and the boss before him also . Bruno and Nick were made at the same time and Bruno was put there as a puppet boss.
If the entire LCN did not go to shit right around Bruno's murder it all would have been different.
If not for the Chin still holding onto the only power left the way it was meant to be it would have fallen before Nick went down.
You do know Skinny is not really made (right) and you only have a handful of real made guys in Philly like Faffy Phil N uncle Joe and Pung .
If the ( Commission ) ever was to form again Philly would be restructured and most of top guy hit.
They just are not made !!!!
