and but for dumb luck someone like Nicky Corozzo or Zeke Squitieri would've taken over sooner.
Zeke owes his rise to underboss/acting boss to being close buddies with Gene and getting along real good with Peter, but he was not really Boss material. Zeke was just a drug trafficker and not much else.
His memorable meeting with the Albanians at a gas station shows he is no Carlo Gambino.
