Yes I agree with you of course but by the time Gravano,Al darco and Vitale fliped the mob has long passed its hayday and the bosses and others were gonna get convicted anyway,just look at the mafia commision trial years earlier.Before Valachi it was nobody talked,and what Valachi did was in fact a chain reaction and it slowly opened the door for all the rats to come out evantually...It was a debacle.Early 1960s when the mafia was the strongest,there comes this Genovese guy who tells the world what its all about,and Vito is to blame,and so are the guys who havent killed him in time.So even thoug what you are saying is true take that into consideration.
Yes, the Genovese had the first guy to openlly flip, which opened the door in a sense, but it really wasnt a chain reaction since it would be over 20 years before another member flipped. And if anything it caused the family to become more secretive and disciplined in the years after Valachi. You could argue Valachi hurt the mob as a whole far more than he hurt the Genovese family itself.
