he didnt start off the largest black gang in LA and the Country. Ted had a one time crime, Tookie was a criminal and multi murderer
The Kennedy family, on the other hand, was behind a LOT of crime...starting with Joseph and the "bootlegging" of liquor during prohibition. Why do you think people speak about the "Kennedy Curse"? Because their fortune was made illegally, and Joseph Kennedy was not the ONLY one in the family that did some foul shit.
And Ted's "One time crime" would have been AT LEAST a 15 year sentence for the average joe.