Then there was the Veasey Brothers. John Veasey, a guy of non-Italian ethnicity who was delegated only to collecting protection money, was made a capo. He didn't even have a crew. Bizarre! There were other made guys of non-Italian ancestry as well. It was a piss poor move by Stanfa because picking a guy up off the street who hasn't grown up around the mob and inducting him in to your inner circle is not a wise move at all. To be fair, Stanfa thought he could just whack guys like John Veasey when he was done with them, but it was still an overly complicated move.

However, I actually intended to ask this question as well. There's no full answer that I'm aware of, except it would seem a little bit obvious that making a random construction worker could have consequences. In the end, Stanfa did his time. Maybe the bigger question, is why did Merlino have so many followers at the time?