The belief that Big Paul would flip gained a lot of traction within the Gambino family, as well as in other families. Logic may not have had anything to do with it. His affair with Gloria Olarte, his Colombian housemaid, was widely known and resented because he violated "Mafia protocol" by carrying on the affair inside his home, right under the noses of his wife and daughter. The other Dons resented him because government wiretap tapes, released after he was cited in the Commission case, recorded him making disparaging remarks against his fellow Dons. All of that added up to major lack of respect, which probably led to the view that a Don lacking in basic Mafia "values" could flip.


Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.