I don´t know, perhaps it´s hairsplitting, but there are holes in George Wolfe´s story. If you read the story carefully, he claims this incident happened in 1958 but Vito Genovese was not in Atlanta Penitentiary at that time. He wasn´t sent there until after his conviction in 1960. A typo? I really don´t think so. It´s more likely that Wolf enlarged his involvement in order to sell more books.

However, there was some kind of a reconsiliation between Genovese and Costello. The two of them compared notes (according to an informant) and discovered that they had been used by Tony Bender, Vito Genovese´s right hand man. Bender had apparently attempted to pit Genovese and Costello against eachother by creating discord and distrust for the purpose of gaining power within the Genovese Family. According to the same informant, this was the reason why Tony Bender was killed.