Pizza i was reading the book Vinnie gorgeous. Apparently cicale was not even involved until 1999 when he was introduced to Basciano by Anthony Indelicato after he had done like 8 years for dope. Anyway Vinnie apparently took such a liking to him that he had him made in 02 and Cicale was acting capo in 04. Pretty crazy that he rose so fast.

Another interesting thing from the book is that Cicale had a reputation of having a "bad wire" on him before he became involved.

You have to wonder what Vinnie saw in him and how he could have been so off.