But not only did he not have Junior's blessing, he didn't have the blessing of the Captains to make a move against Tony. Junior wasn't going to back Rich without it being unanimous. So if Junior gave his blessing at least Larry Boy and Albert had to go along with the plot. Plus Tony and Sil had already put a plan into action to have Rich killed. Janice beat them to it. Rich would have been gone had Janice not done it before he could have plotted anything serious against Tony and that would have turned out to be a death sentence for Rich. He wasn't well like by anyone it seemed. I can't see Sil or Paulie taking orders from Rich.