Tess and Clem already had their own separate operation
So I reckon, they would just rebrand as their own "family" and continue as before, independent but a la Michael/Clemenza/Tessio
I was under the impression, any Sonny's business was absorbed into their operation and there was no other business out of the Corleones for them to split it in half, or fight each other for sole possession
I started a thread a long time ago that Tessio's treason was a stroke of good luck for Michael. He'd never have let them "form their own family"--there has never been a co-Donship for reasons I cited above. Also, he needed to hold onto New York as muscle to deter gangsters from threatening his Nevada interests; for monetary tribute paid to him; and synergy--NYC's high rollers as fodder for junkets to his legal Nevada casinos. Clemenza would have gone along with it, but not Tess.
We'd discussed in Vito's vs Michael's caporegime thread Barzini can't afford “to wait until Vito died [not knowing when?!]
The longer Barzini waited as Tattaglia said at the Commission meeting “as time goes by and his [Vito's] position becomes stronger....
That was Tattaglia's fear, not Barzini's. Vito successfully played weak after the Commission meeting, and never let on that he knew "It was Barzini all along."
As regards Nevada gambling, I reckon it was Barzini who thought he already had a toehold in Vegas through Moe Greene's hotel with whom he'd already made a deal
That was Moe Greene's fantasy--"I tolk to Barzini. I
can [emphasis added]make a deal with him and still keep my hotel." There's no evidence he made a deal with Barzini. I doubt he "tolked" to Barzini--he may have been bluffing Michael.
