As for whacking Gotti, as others pointed out plus like Sammy said," I'd have to kill10, 12 guys, the thought of killing his son sickened me. His brother Gene I really liked...."
Even Sammy realised he would never get away with killing Gotti. Even when he wasn't on the streets and guys wanted to kill John jr, they couldn't pull it off cos he had a lot of loyalists left over. Not to mention he paid lil Nicky to watch over his son
According to Sammy him and Frankie decicco made a pact that they would give gotti a year to prove himselnf otherwise they would take over. Gotti is lucky Decicco got blown up otherwise I'm sure they would have executed their backup plan.
