Well fat Pete Chiodo only cooperated because gas & vic tried to kill
him because he took a plea without consulting with them first. He didn't rat to avoid jail time.

Nope. They all have the same bullshit excuse. That they were doing it for revenge and not to dodge prison time.

It's true enough in some cases, though. Once in a while they do create their own rats by bullying their own crew members, short changing and embarrassing them in public, etc.

Greg DePalma's a good example. I'm not excusing them, but he two-faced every rat in the Scores case into flipping.

Your safer in prison and maybe after a few years the bosses forget.

If you mean prison vs. the street, you're right. If you prison vs. Witness Protection, you're crazy. The rat program is much safer than prison.

Surely Burton Kaplan deserves an honorable mention.

If you mean when Ducks went to prison for life after the Commission Case, Stevie didn't have his button yet. But once he got made he made so much money with the DiNapolis in the construction business that he shot up very fast.

If you mean when Ducks died in in the early 2000s, everyone was deferring to Stevie by that point. After he did his own bit and came home himself, he was for all intents and purposes the Boss by then.

And before anyone mentions FBI charts or whatever, I'm not saying that it was official. But here, in New York, ON THE STREET, WHERE IT MATTERS, he was already running things.

louie dadione i thought he was the boss in the early 2000s i thought steve ran things in the late 90s and he was kicking up alot of money to vic its why vic ordered joe defede to be killed because he thought he was skimming the family operations

Crea was never consigliere , he was official underboss from the early 90s , he was then acting boss before he went to prison , daidone acted for crea whilst he was in prison and wen he was released I think we all know what is position is

That's the first I heard of Daidone acting for Crea. I thought Amuso instated Daidone after De Fede skimmed.

Daidone didn't go with Al and Crea's plot. He was loyal to the end

That's the first I heard of Daidone acting for Crea. I thought Amuso instated Daidone after De Fede skimmed.

Daidone didn't go with Al and Crea's plot. He was loyal to the end.

On the street--in New York--WHERE IT MATTERS--That entire family has been deferring to Stevie and the Bronx/Westchester faction (which would include the last East Harlem holdouts back then)--for the past fifteen plus years.

And again, I'm not using terms like "official," or "acting." Only the fucking Feds and the media use those terms. I'm just stating factually and once and for all fucking time, that Stevie is the guy who's been steering that ship for fifteen plus years. When he was away, all you have to do is look at the panel that was standing in for him at the time. Hand picked, with Joey DiNapoli holding the deciding vote. And if you don't know them, you have no fucking idea how close Stevie is to all of the DiNapolis, including Vinny, rest in peace.

Oh, it's Salerno. Mikey Salerno. And all you have for evidence is that midget's word. Joey Giampa beat that murder at trial in an era where wiseguys were getting life without parole in droves.