According to Gravano in december 1985 after Paul got killed Aurello retired and gravano took over the crew. I'm not sure when he died by I know that he was still alive when paul was killed
Where did you find information about Aurello that makes you so sure that he was still alive when Big Paul was killed? I am sncerely curious to know.
I may have my timeline mixed up....but DeCiccio did take over Aurello's teamster crew and he and Gravano became close allies.
The information was from Peter Maas' book. Apparently Gravano was told that after 12-16-1985 that he was going to be made a
capo. However, he did not want to step on Aurello's toes so he went to Toddo and asked if it was OK, which Aurello said it was because he wanted to retire. Gravano was going to start a new crew anyways. So Toddo received permission from Gotti, DeCicco and Joe N. Gallo to retire.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/sammy-bull-gravano-fbi-debriefings?page=26This is the link for Gravano's debriefing that I have mentioned where Aurello's name is mentioned.
Going back to the original question in this thread one thing that is the incident with Gravano threatening DiBono. Apparently it was Dellacroce who stood up for him at the sit-down and that obviously would've helped form a link between Gravano and the Dellacroce faction.
