It's bullshit. They were never going to hit a Fed. And it was Big Paul who the Feds approached, not Massino. If you're going to go by books, at least get the story straight. Castellano laughed at the agents and said something like, "if you know anything about us, you know we'd never go along with that."

Lefty screaming for revenge in prison and Commission approval are two entirely different things. I don't personally believe that Pistone was dirty. I don't know where that came from. But his ego was out of control with those sunglasses and that self-important bullshit about a mafia contract still being out on him .