Why did “Do you know who I am? I'm Moe Greene!”
- Still have to align himself with Barzini – the incoming Top Don!
- If Greene's mentor “Roth was a bigtime player in that world” why didn't Roth and Greene partner up not dissimilar to Roth's Klingman hotel arrangement
- Roth could have arranged the registered owners, then Roth and Greene themselves, the real owners
Perhaps they did all of the above. Remember: Roth wasn't a character, or even mentioned, in GF. He's strictly a creature of II. But, since we learned in II that Greene was Roth's best friend, it might be logical for Greene to involve Roth in his hotel--and his problems with Michael.
On the other hand, Moe--"headstrong, talking loud, saying styupid things..." --may simply have concluded that he didn't need Roth's help because he underestimated Michael and his father: "First of all, you're all done. The Corleone Family don't even
have that kind of muscle anymore. The Godfather's sick, right? You're getting chased out of
New York by Barzini and the other Families."
There you have it: Moe thinks he knows who's Numero Uno and can make a deal with him.
