If the DUmpmonkey husb2Spunkly is in the mob, he's a gofer like the lardass Bobby Bacala in The Sopranos, or, more likely, the gay Vito.
Well now, you know organized crime isn't stupid.
And one of their smartest tactics is to hide behind stooges, bumbling idiots and fools, who are just a "front."
It's not quite the same thing as a "sacrificial lamb," though.
Dunces and fools can have many uses, as a late Democrat party boss in Memphis pointed out, oh, circa seventy years ago. And they're shielded from harm because they're eminently valuable.
I've always guessed the
generalissimo dude's a front for Bela Pelosi's husband, who's an in-law in the d'Alessandro crime family of Baltimore and San Francisco.