He went along after Gotti declared himself boss. He had no choice. Gotti simply named him consigliere to extend an olive branch to the other pro-Castellano factions in the family, guys like Jimmy Brown, and others. And he quickly took him down in favor of DeCicco when he felt like he was safe from retribution within the family.
your getting mixed up. It was joe gallo who john named as consgliere as a olive branch when gotti whacked paul first thing he did before the capos meeting spoke to joe gallo who advised john to
never admit they killed paul esp when talking to the other five families as they broke the commission rule and if they admit to it they are putting themselves at risk
