A question for you New York guys, do you think Tieri, if he hadn't died of natural cause would have died from some unnatural ones as a result of him giving the ok the kill Bruno, or was his position strong enough that he could have weathered the storm?

The hit on Bruno was not a unilateral Tieri decision. The Commission was going to take Bruno out one way or the other,because Atlantic City suddenly became a huge cash cow with the legalization of gambling,and Bruno didn't want to share.

Funzi was just the front man,so that the Commission could have plausible deniability. Funzi was well connected,and doing the bidding of the Commission,so God help the guy that went after him.He would wind up in the trunk next to Tony Bananas.

A lot of interesting info in that link, thanks.

Hypothetical questions here, but do you suppose that if Gambino were alive Bruno would have been spared?

Probably not, the Gambinos wanted A.C. just as much as the rest of the families.

If I were Capogniro I would of went into that meeting where he ended up being killed with a bomb attached to me like the Joker. And when they started screaming at me about how I didnt have permission I would of just told them not to blow things out of proportion. If they started coming at me anyways I would of jumped on that old fart Tieri and hit the switch.

Funzi Tieri played Tony bananas bigtime. He knew exactly what would happen to Tony Caponigro so thats why he gave the ok. Once the commission summoned Tony, Tieri denied ever giving permission and he knew that the commission would believe him over the Philly consigliere. He did all thid so he could get Tony's bookimaking operation lol

Tony got played by Frank and the commission.Bruno held strong that ac was his and his only.

Guy was dying to, he really plays the quadruple cross just to get his book even though hes dying and was about to get convicted of rico, greedy man.