Of course Castellano, Salerno and Gotti were never recorded talking drugs or child porn on phone calls. They knew that their phone lines were prime targets for law enforcement. More important: they were part of the Dons' drug hypocrisy: They didn't mind getting some of the drugs money being kicked upstairs to them as long as nobody told them it was drugs money. They decreed death for those caught dealing drugs. But, if the dealers weren't caught, well...what the Dons didn't know wouldn't hurt them. When Salerno said on the wiretap that dealers should be killed, it was for the benefit of LE listeners. When the money came upstairs to him, he didn't look too closely into where it originated.
I have to disagree, they had no idea they were being recorded. They were discussing Family structure, killings, union money, and other crimes. If Salerno thought anyone was listening he would have never spoken at all about other things. In fact he would have not stayed where he was talking. Same for Gotti, Cstelllano, Tony Ducks, and all the rest. You can't think they would discuss things that wound up sending them to prison, knowing they might be recorded? No way.
