I'm not agree,in the Leonetti book Salvie ask Scarfo if can broke with Maria Merlino without offend Merlino and Scarfo said that you re young and something similar.
When the article said that Testa as the crowned prince of mafia in philly, the Scarfo ego was damaged and give that Merlino was angered with Salvie scarfo put gasoline on fire and said to his underboss that Salvie disrespected him and his family. More scarfo was the boss and salvie a trusted capo while merlino was a drunken underboss if he wanted that Salvie gonna live he would fuck off merlino when he must asked the ok for whack alive, but Scarfo in his paranoia feared to be killed by scarfo like Bruno and phil testa, so the fate of salvie was signed.