“Life in [the mob] is like a wheel it turns. A guy that’s on the bottom today could be your boss, on top the next day.”
That quote highlights how in The Life you need to be very careful & respectful when dealing with people. Nobody is totally above reproach, nobody is “untouchable” & those who act that way often find themselves suffering the consequences of their actions.
Consider the case of Joe Brocchini aka “Joe Bikini,” who was a soldier or Made Man in the Lucchese Crime Family. Back in the 1970s, Brocchini did business with a man named Roy DeMeo who was a Mafia associate at the time.
DeMeo would eventually meet a fate similar to Bikini, but that story has been told a bunch of times and won’t be discussed here.