Originally Posted By: SonnyBlackstein
Originally Posted By: mulberry
The other 23 crews combined were so afraid of the bergin crew that they allowed one crew to kill their boss?

The Brown/Marino conspiracy was never verified. I doubt it ever happened or else one or both would have been killed when the story came out.


1. The point is the other 23 crews were not combined.

2. The conspiracy is commonly accepted as have taken place.


1. That's right, they were not combined because they didn't respect their boss enough to avenge his death. If guys like Carlo Gambino, Tommy Lucchese, or Gigante had been killed by a renegade crew, that crew would have been wiped out.

2. Commonly accepted by who? That was a story told by Anthony Casso and the media took off running with it despite having no corroboration that it ever existed. There were no other testimony or wiretaps to prove it ever happened. The fact that nothing ever happened to Marino and Failla makes the story hard to believe. If the Gambinos believe MArino and Failla plotted to kill Gotti, they would have been killed, demoted or shelved.