Ive never heard of that, I suppose its possible but it may have been raised through a party he threw where he asked for donations to pay for legal fees.

The main problem with him is that he was such a huge degenerate gambler that he was willing to rip his own guys off by betting into their books.
A big reason scafidi and Natale flipped is that Joey stopped sending them any money when they went away and didnt help their families. When Borgese got word that scafidi was considering flipping he wrote scafidi a letter offering to give him money and take care of his wife when they hadn't done so throughout his whole bid.