There is.


And you never will. Those guys didn't talk when they were alive. And most of them are dead now .

He was the smartest boss of his era. The fact that he broke tradition by handpicking Vince as his successor tells you all you need to know about what kind of foresight the guy had. And the fact that the power base remained on 116th Street after Benny moved to Florida (even though Vince rarely left the Village), is what led the Feds to believe that Fat Tony was really The Boss.

Now, things obviously didn't work out so well for Fat Tony. But Vince not being dragged into the Commission Case altered mob history. Because the Genovese family picked up more construction contracts and held onto more unions after the Commission Case than any other family (but like I always say, they've always been tightly aligned with the Luccheses in construction).