Sometime in the 1970s, Carlo Gambino had to make a decision about who would succeed him as head of the Gambino crime family. The obvious choice seemed to be his underboss, Neil Dellacroce. Instead, he chose his cousin, Paul Castellano. This proved to be a mistake. Castellano was shrewd and a good moneymaker, but he wasn't respected by the blue-collar, "traditional" segments of the family. As time went on, his weaknesses as boss only became more apparent, and he alienated the blue-collar mobsters more and more. Things came to a head in 1985, when he and his underboss Tommy Bilotti were gunned down outside Sparks Steak House on the orders of John Gotti.

What if Gambino had chosen Dellacroce? Would things have gone better for the Gambino family?
 
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