Luigi Tripodi got involved with the Stanfa mob in his 50's and then his lawyer argued that it was just a mid-life crisis. Stanfa brought him in, made him, considered making him underboss (before he promoted Joey Chang) and made him capo very quickly for a guy who hadn't been involved before. But the Stanfa era is a bit of an exception as he was bringing in just about anyone to rebuild the family and fight the Merlino faction (I mean John Veasey went from construction worker to associate to soldier to capo to government witness in 5 1/2 months)