This story has gotten a lot of press in Connecticut over the years.
It was a bad move by Castellano. By allowing another family to take out his own captain, it made him look like a sellout to his own soldiers. Gotti was able to use this as one of his selling points a few years later when he was shopping around the idea of taking Paul out.
Tommy Debrizzi took over for Piccolo, and was eventually murdered himself. Tony Megale was made a short time after Debrizzi's murder. I wonder what happened there?