Sammy the bull tried to start his own family and he was once an underboss.
Gravanno was a fucking rat and runned a ecstasy ring,nothing more while Michael Rizzitello asked the gambinos in 1986 for create a family but they said no,anyway was able to run an independent crew under L.A. family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_RizzitelloWhen Rizzitello was released from prison in early 1986, Peter Milano had became the new boss of the Los Angeles crime family. While Milano and Rizzitello had worked together in the 1970s, they now had a distant relationship. Rizzitello then went to the Gambino crime family in New York City to seek permission to start his own crime family in California, but it never came to be. However, he was able to run an independent crew under Milano's family.
