Chin, not wanting to get involved....???
heck, he tried to blow Gotti up....
If Paul had gone to him and said a throw-over is in the works, he would have had a 100 button men looking for Neil and his boys.
You're right about the attempt on Gotti,and I knew it would come up when I posted,but I think it's a different situation and my reasoning is this:
1)Chin never accepted Gotti as a legitimate successor to Paul,but rather as a punk who hit the Boss without full Commission approval.
2) There was no internal Gambino conflict at the time. Chin wanted to kill Gotti out of revenge,and to try to maintain the Commission's authority. He wasn't taking sides,and I doubt any of the Gambinos (even Gotti) knew it was Chin at first.
3)No Boss is going to ask another Boss to help him win a war against his own soldiers. He would lose respect from the other Bosses,and be perceived as weak.
4)If any Boss did stick his nose in,he would be exposing all of his own people to revenge.
5)I think if Neil wanted to take out Paulie,he would have gone by the book,got Commission approval,and done it. Remember Neil was no Gotti,he was respected,and feared,and had been Underboss since Anastasia got killed.The other Bosses would have no problem accepting him as the new Boss.
Anyway,that's my opinion.
