How can D'Arco say he is not a rat?

He says that he squealed on Amuso & Casso because they weren't "playing by the rules" and they were going after families. Bull shit. He didn't play by the rules. The fact that he ratted because he was going to get whacked rather than ratting because he was going to prison doesn't make him any less of a rat. And the feds had him pegged as one of the leading figures of the family and were closing in on him due to the Matamoras landfill investigation, so this narrative that he didn't have any pending cases against him is a bit erroneous.

If D'Arco was ratting because he was disillusioned with the mafia and it wasn't the mafia he fell in love with, fair enough, but he didn't just rat out his superiors (Amuso & Casso). He f***ing ratted out his underlings! Pete Del Cioppo and Harpo Trapani didn't pass down orders to kill family members and family captains so his argument falls to pieces right there.

There was a cap on how long Sammy Gravano could testify for the feds. There was no such cap with D'Arco. He ratted and ratted and ratted and ratted and ratted - for over a decade. He was clearly desperate to evade prison. He is a coward and it is a disgrace that he didn't serve any prison time for all the murders he participated in.

And it's right there in the book that he was caught in a lie once on the stand, so he and the feds have no right to preach about Casso and say what a great servant D'Arco was!

D'Arco regurgitated the same stuff they didn't want to take Casso at face value for!