Agreed Oli.

Thew thing is that by the era of Tahoe the money was no longer in the olive oil business. It was in casinos and dealing with Cuba and Hyman Roth..not Sicilians. Obviously Michael wanted to keep his finger in the New York pie, so I guess Tom's ethnicity still factored in. Its interesting in III how he goes out f his way to coment how great a lawyer Tom was (perhaps he was puttig down the George Hamilton character?).