And to clarify, whether or not the rumors at the time that Pennis was an informant were true or not and no matter how and why they started and even if as Pennisi has claimed in his blog that his friends then learned the rumors weren't true (these are his statements and recollections), the fact still remains that at the time he thought Gotti was an informant, it was all based on rumors no matter what the eventual outcome may have been.

In addition, Pennisi still went to the FBI. Plus, he hasn't told the complete story of how that came to be. ~LisaB