Gotti supposedly met with DeMeo on some pretext to feel out whether or not he'd be able to kill him. Gotti, so the rumor goes, didn't think he could pull it off.

DeMeo, for his part, knew he was in deep shit and was said to be carrying a sawed-off 12 ga around with him for protection.

Apparently, Roy had worked out a plan to fake his death with son Albert. Too bad Roy didn't put that plan into action earlier.