Because of it as soon as a guy gets made LE knows it. That fact immediately brings much heavier scrutiny on the guys activities and operations. The feds open a new "jacket" on him, and do their very best to form a anti-racketeering profile on him in hopes of nailing him.
George V. Higgins, a former prosecutor who wrote two of the greatest crime novels ever, had this passage in one of them, "The Digger's Game," between Sally Barca, a made guy, and Richie Torrey, an associate. Barca tells Torrey that the Don wants to make him. Torrey replies:
"Uh-uh. Sooner or later they catch up with some guy, got made the same time you did, he's gonna spill his guts as usual, like every other godamned g***ea I hear about lately. Then you go to bed at night, you got a state cop under the window. In the morning, you get up, FBI onna doorstep. The afternoon, you're having lunch, Treasury guys swap the FBI guys off. Internal Revenue in the dinner time. F**k that. My idea, getting made's a great idea, you want police protection. Otherwise f**k it."
(The other great Higgins novel is "The Friends of Eddie Coyle.)
