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

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