Originally Posted by Lou_Para
Extract: Another great part of the novel was the whole Bocchicchio saga. Professional hostages,hell of a way to make a living
Originally Posted by Lana
The negotiator / hostage for Michael-Sollozzo meeting, for Michael's safe return!
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Clemenza: He's over at my place playin' pinochle with a couple of my men He's happy, they're lettin' him win...Bonus!

If my memory serves me right, a Bocchicchio who'd already murdered his former colleagues, for betraying him, in some scam business deal or similar, took the rap for Sollozzo and McCluskey killings that cleared Michael of all these 'false' charges
I am confused! So who hires these negotiator / hostage?

The one playin' pinochle, at Clemenza's place, presumably for Michael's safe return was hired by Sollozzo or the Corleones