A lot of the top people in the Genovese crime family had more brains than Tommy Eboli. Eboli was Lucchese and Gambino guy. The others did not believe everything that was said about Joe Bonanno. The Genovese family would most likely stayed neutral or sided with Bonanno.

"I have this Nightmare. I'm on 5th avenue watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary and nine thousand cops march happily over my body." Chief Sidney Green