Originally posted by Michele Corleone:
Michael was not the type who would let Cicci get away with it so easily. He probably found Cicci, maybe a few years after, and sent Al Neri with the appropriate instructions.
Anyway, did they have the witness protection program back in 1959?
Logic is on your side, MC. Logically, Michael would hunt down Cicci. We didn't see that happen because Frankie was a more important target (and because it set up that unforgettable scene with his brother, and later with Tom).
BUT:
It's possible that Cicci helped Michael at the Senate hearing. Remember, he testified that he never got an order from Michael--"I never talked to him." But Cicci did get orders from him--apparently. Near the end of GF, when Tessio's getting in his car, Cicci says, "Sal, Tom, the boss says for you to go on ahead..." Sounded like he got a direct order from Michael that would implicate Michael in Tessio's murder. So his telling the Senate that he never talked to Michael would be a deliberate lie to get Michael off the hook. Maybe Michael recognized it as such.
No, there was no Witness Protection Program in 1959 or 1960, the time of the Senate hearing in GFII. Cicci probably got a reduced prison term, and would have been put in solitary or in the "canary wing" of some Federal prison.
