As Piney Armone (Dominic Chianese) said, "The rule was broken, if it was my call, he would of gone."

Well, if Dominic Chianese said so, who are we to argue?

Benny Eggs...do u agree?

"just for the record", I don't remember Johnny Boy asking Rusty and The Snake for approval to whack Big Paul. The Colombo and Bonanno family reported to Johnny G not the other way around. Johnny G reported to Tony Ducks and Vince The Chin and the Lucchese and Genovese families didn't like what Gotti did. Corallo and Gigante basically controlled The Commission and controlled all crime families through The Commission. La Cosa Nostra rule, you don't whack your own boss on any matter. The other theory is that Johnny G was hiding drug tapes from Big Paul either that he personally sold drugs or Quack-Quack did. So Gotti broke ANOTHER rule, "you deal, you die". If Ruggiero was dealing drugs then Gotti should of whacked him but didn't. He let a drug dealer in his crew even though they had a brother-friend relationship, rules are the rules. Follow them or you die.