If you listen to Sammy's rise in the "rampers" it kind of has the same themes. Sammy was #2 behind Papa, they got busted and Sammy claims to have seen a signed statement on the desk of the police sergeant, showing that Papa was cooperating.
Gravano goes back and tells the rest of the gang what he saw, and supposedly [ according to him ] they all turn on Papa, and he becomes the leader. Its all just speculation on my part; was there really a paper on that desk? Was Papa really cooperating?
Joe Vitale who was also a ramper, also seen the letter, and one of Joe Cataldo sons, who's name escapes me. Someone in the Lucchese family also had contacts at that precinct and was told that Gerard Pappa asked for protection. So two other rampers seen the letter and it was not just Gravano word on it. It was enough for the gang. Genovese had sitdowns over with not just the Gambinos over Pappa, but also with the Lucchese, and Colombo families, not just for his antics and Spero murder, but because of that paper. Regardless, Pappa was made in the Genovese crime family and was still up to his antics, the final straw was his unauthorized killing of Ralph Spero.
