I don’t know but as far as all around would have to be when Frank Castillo was acting or boss he just had so many powerful men in business in law in every aspect that a family could want.
Because after he was out look what being loud and moving so much dope did for the family , it just made so many powerful people run and with powerful people you can get your big earners off charges or at least reduced if not have events completely thrown out .
But once Vito was openly known drug guy itjust changed the family .
If you look at all the families it was dope that started all the bullshit ....it causes jealousy because certain guys are making huge money ....it causes more murders ....it makes the regular Joe hate what they are about ....then LE runs the other way....Dope got Paul Castellano killed indirectly but directly .
It was behind so many downfalls in families.......they just not could let another family get all the money.....they thought that it would hurt the family if not involved......but in the end it killed them.
Agreed! If they found more ways to substitute drug money then they wouldn’t have had the need to get into them in the first place. The gasoline scams are on example but only a few members were really in on that. I’ve always felt that Luciano and most of the old timers really wanted to eventually become legitimate wealthy businessmen. Kind of like how Michael Corleone was at least perceived in Godfather 3. He had hundreds of millions but because of his legitimate businesses and rebranding, some people probably felt he was clean.
