Isn't he in the supermax in Colorado? It would be VERY tough to get any messages out of there with respect to a mafia war etc. Next to impossible. Vito Rizzuto must be almost mad, stuck in prison, unable to do absolutely anything.
But he has a LOT of time to think about what he is gonna do. That's practically the only thing he can do atm. I don't see him being able to organize anything other than his thoughts.
I also think that this take-over wasn't necessarily aimed at Vito Rizzuto himself.
"It was between the brothers Kay -- I had nothing to do with it."
