He said that at his trial where he got convicted (the first one)
Classic case of someone embarrasing the fuck out of you and you say " I knew you were going to do that" to try to save face.
Let me ask you something...
In the HISTORY of the mafia has there ever been a time that someone was known to be an informant of some sort (as Massino said) and their repsonse was:
Ehh, dont sit next to him at the wedding, hes an informant. Dont kill him, just dont eat cake next to the guy
No