Other than unproven speculation,2nd hand "sources",etc. I haven't seen anything to support this rumor.
Even Gravano,who has never been one to pass up an opportunity to do yet another YouTube video,has ever given this any validity.
The same speculation was floated about Dellacroce being a snitch.
It seems like these are just amateurish attempts by Law Enforcement to plant gossip.
Frankly Big Paul has been done dirty by LE / the media and I wish someone could write a fairer view of his era.
It seems his reign was on track to be up there with the greats until the Maid and Frank Piccolo.
The guy was like a Roman Emperor though, he literally presided over an empire. The meeting with the Westies where he made then a de facto Gambino crew reminds me of Rome conquering a Barbarian tribe and making them pay tribute.
The Mob today has ironically gone in the direction he wished it would: utterly secretive, mostly legit, mostly white collar. In a sense, he was a decade or two ahead of the game in the way he ran things. His major flaw was not seeing Gotti for the threat he posed and allowing the Bergin crew too much leeway.
I feel like he is a guy primed for a renaissance of popular opinion or a resetting of mainstream thought with Gotti and his loyalists all gone.
A guy who mentored and brought along the fearless Nino Gaggi wasn’t purely some racketeer. The man in terms of blood ordered more murders than Gotti did during his era.