Didn't closing the books for twenty years damage the American mafia in the long run?

[furiofromnaples]

Closing the books at the end of the 1950s when the mafia was unknown to the majority of Americans and even after Valachi, thanks to Hoover who refused to investigate, didn't it bring any damage to the mafia?
Some small families arrived in 1976 with a few men of honor and a series of arrests was enough to decimate them.
Maybe if after Apalachin the Commission would prefer to allow the inductions or even cancelled the limit on small family membership the US mafia would be the shelf of itself today.

[Shellackhead]

No, opening them up again did.

[BeatiPaoli]

To Shellackhead: Respectfully, I disagree. Holding back the inductions of individuals in the 50s and 60s who still possessed the Old World mentality contributed to the philosophical attrition of Cosa Nostra,

Regards,
BeatiPaoli

[Shellackhead]

To Shellackhead: Respectfully, I disagree. Holding back the inductions of individuals in the 50s and 60s who still possessed the Old World mentality contributed to the philosophical attrition of Cosa Nostra,

Regards,
BeatiPaoli

Opened up for rats tho

[furiofromnaples]

To Shellackhead: Respectfully, I disagree. Holding back the inductions of individuals in the 50s and 60s who still possessed the Old World mentality contributed to the philosophical attrition of Cosa Nostra,

Regards,
BeatiPaoli

Opened up for rats tho

If they books wouldnt be closed,they can easly be more seletive on who made and who not.

[Waingro]

The people who got made after the books were opened were the same people who would have got made if they never closed just at an older age.

[Browniety86]

'76 is when they let the rats in...