Considering his rather morbid prognosis of future rackets, I take it he wanted the family to head in a more white collar direction, like Gambino did in his final days by choosing Castellano. Someone clearly had other plans with Amuso getting picked.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
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