... The real question is: why didn't Tom know about it? As he told Michael: "Our people with the New York detectives said he was half-dead, scared, talking out loud about how you betrayed him." Well, where were your contacts when you advised your one and only client that it was safe to perjure himself under oath? Duh-h-h, Tom!
Simple. The NY 'contacts' were not written in until convenient to the plot. One of several unexplained but excuseable inconsistencies in GFII (all discussed here in the past) which were apparently necessary in order for the complicated weaving of the story to work.
After all, how interesting would it be for Michael to have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, possibly making it unnecessary for Frankie to testify and subsequently recant his sworn affidavit after the shock of seeing his brother, who must've been flown in virtually overnight AFTER Michael having learned Frankie was alive and about to get him convicted?
Not too interesting, probably. And probably not worth discussing all these years later.
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