Cicci had a good lawyer who told him to onlyh answer the specific auestions he was asked. No one asked him who the witnesses to various murders were, but instead they asked whether or not Cicci had ever received a direct orderfrom Michael Corleone to kill anyonw, to which he answered truthfully.
For that lapse Questadt should have been forced to give Roth some money back.
Plus, Michael was the committee's target--not Tom. If Cicci had implicated Tom, Michael would have gotten a certified pass:
Tom was the bad guy, not him. As we've discussed here many times: Michael was never that happy with Tom as consigliere, and probably blamed him for Sonny's death and other problems. After Michael learned that Pentangeli was alive, and that he'd waltzed into five counts of perjury in part because Tom failed to learn of Frankie's survival, Michael would have been more than ready to throw Tom to the wolves. You might argue that, if the committee had squeezed Tom, he might have ratted out Michael. Not likely, with his wife and kids living on the compound and his knowledge that Michael never gave an enemy a pass. Also, Michael had spent a lot of time putting around the notion that Tom was just his lawyer, and was excluded from certain matters. Power counts--and Michael had far more power than Tom.
