What Majicrat said.

Follow the money: Being made may have stoked your ego, but your status depended on whether or not you were a good earner, not on whether or not you were made. The myth that a made man would be protected by the Don if arrested, and his family supported if he went to prison, was just that: a myth.

About the only advantage of being made is that you could rise in the organization and thus have people working for you who'd kick upstairs. But, the higher up you went, the more law enforcement attention you'd attract, and the more you'd be a target for rats in the family to trade in return for reduced sentences.