they met in 85 after paul got whacked gotti said he got commision approval for pauls murder (he was lying). According to leonetti scarfo was impressed with gotti and gotti was apparently impressed with scarfo as they were according to philip quite similar

but raymond marananto apparently told the crow that gotti and the gambinos disliked the way scarfo was running the family marananto claims gotti said that to him face to face when they were in prison together they apparently thought scarfo was causing too much heat