Vic Orena is related to the Persicos. Carmine was pressured by the other bosses to pick someone to represent him on the commission and felt Orena would be a good dog, how wrong he was as John Gotti was able to manipulate Orena.
Guys who could have led the family if Carmine had stepped down as boss and were good candidates
Vincent Aloi, William Cutolo, Salvatore Profaci. By the time the Commission trial started and ended, a lot of good candidates were locked up, died, were in bad health to where it would only be a few years at the helm. Persico had already killed two members in the 70s who could have posed a threat to him taking over the family. Emanuele Cammarata and Salvatore Albanese who was against Thomas DiBella being boss. The others were demoted.
Franzese was asked to be acting boss initially but couldn’t fulfill that duty because he was on trial at the time.
