That's why he bumped down Tartaglione after suspicions of him being a rat, after coming back from Florida all of a sudden. And it hurt him also because Tartaglione had already decided to begin recording before than.
Vinny inherited that mutt. But you're not far off base with the rest of your post.
Vinny's big sin was Cicale. Plain and simple. Vinny had a good heart (for a mob guy, I have no illusions about what he was capable of), and he was forever adopting strays.
Forget Massino and the jailhouse tapes. If it wasn't for that lying, murderous, scumbag Cicale, there's a 50/50 chance that Vinny's watching television on Revere Avenue right now.
Cicale has more bodies on him than Vinny. Just like Sammy had more bodies on him than Gotti. And there's something fundamentally wrong with giving deals to guys who have killed more people than the guys they're putting away.
And don't get me wrong, the world needs law and order. But put them away fair and square.
