I don't think Manny Gambino was that i involved, if he was at all. That is a story a couple of FBI agents told years later.
I have noticed that there was an intense and succseeful campaign to portray McBratney as a saint by many people, including law enforcement. I think that it's due to the fact that Gotti killed him, and they feel that if he sounds like a nice guy ("He read books and wanted to be an honest man" that it makes Gotti look worse.


Manny Gambino had long hair and a mustache. No way he is made. With that look Carlo Gambino would not have even let him be involved. They did claim Senter killed him, but meanwhile nothing came of it. I think that all those original pre-Gotti reports were truthful, McBratney and friend kidnapped Gambino, collected the ransom, and then killed him anyway.

Ed Leibman of the Cosa Nostra Fake News site is one who pushes the McBratney was a nice guy, Manny Gambino was a thug story.