Your right the guy is grasping at straws. He had more concern about what he had to eat the night that he went along with Salvie's murder then secretly regretting it. I just hope, which will never happen, that he stops pushing everything on Nicky who lets remember was a mad killer, and start just being honest about the role he played during his time as a Philly mobster. Phil has this complex about trying to be the nice friendly killer who did what he had to do because it was against bad people. You can see it in his interview and book that if no charges hadn't been brought against him he would have taken over the organization (if New York allowed) and carried on the way he was without having thoughts about running away and starting a new life like he tries to make out in his book. He loved La Cosa Nostra and he loved murder as much as his uncle did. As Tommy Del said, "The only difference between him and Scarfo, was that Scarfo came first."
