i know a guy who grew up around and knew jimmys son and stuff yes james burke was that powerful paulie would not want mess with jimmy but jimmy also had respect for paulie and tommy did hang with the gotti crew also all the families knew that paulies boys were crazy and had tons of respect tommy got clipped for alot of stuff he was crazy and paulie got sick of tommy, plus other families were starting to talk to paulie about tommy and with tommy trying to rape hills ex,that made paulie pissed because he had a big thing with hills wife and with the other families backing paulie jimmy would not get involved