Merely a hypothetical. Paul survives the murder attempt. Purely by circumstance. Lets say Tommy Bilotti still dies, Paul gets hit once or twice but survives.

My question isn't necessarily what may have happened to "the fist" and their co-conspirators. My question is more, have a nearly successful attempt to his life Paul would have then been under police guard in the hospital and more than likely until any of his upcoming trials.

My question is had he lived to be fully prosecuted, wasn't he potentially being named in three seperate RICO trials as Boss of the Family?

1) The Pending Ruggiero (Gotti Crew) Drug bust tapes

2) The DeMeo Crew trials. There was nobody left to take the years but the Twins, but Paul was the top tier of that case even before Roy was killed.

3) The Commission Trial. Open and shut case, another easy 100 years guaranteed.

This has gotten rant-like but my point was had he survived the murder attempt based on those trials alone where he was the highest ranking member in all three trials not to mention anything else that may have surfaced in the events of those trials had Paul stayed alive, he may have been the longest sentenced mobster ever. I'm not saying served the longest time, but the unrealistic amount of years handed down and added on to the sentences of guys like Nicky Scarfo and Junior Persico might not have even been that bad compared to what Paul may have been looking at unless those cases were consolidated or dropped for a single case forcus.

Can you imagine a life sentence for three difference RICO trials?