Vito was a very powerful and scary man, even spending the last years of his life in prison no one ever crossed him, vito was grooming the chin to be boss very early in his career, when chin was a soldier he was a very big drug dealer on behalf of vito, so if vito say vinnie is my boy, thats it!
"McGurn likes you, so I make you. So you are now one of us, if you fuck up, we take it out on McGurn. He is your sponsor. Fuck up, it's his ass. You work in his crew, he is your capo."
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