Nicoletti had no cancer although the street thought he did because he was in the hospital for a couple of weeks in July. The word was the new faction used his possible ID in the Milwaukee thing as a reason to make him look weak combined with the Cancer rumor.

Plain and simple, he was in the way of bigger expansion by the young Turks, he was still dangerous, he lost his power and he was one of a few last true threats to Joe Batters if he flipped.

They looked at Louie the Mooch and Marcello as one of the shooters.

Last seen alive at Aurie's in Melrose.