That part of Gravanos book underboss along with the other killing he did with the Philly Mob was the best parts of the book.The other was the thing where Scarfo took out the Irish guy Frankie "steele."In Leonettis book he says the Simone thing was going on during his Scarfos and Merlino murder trial of Vincent Falcone.But Leonetti states on page 104 that it was for plotting against Phil Testa.That Testa was still alive and Simone was plotting against him.Gambino capo Nicky Russo was sending messages from Johnny Keys to Big Paul about Simone taking over the Philly-Atlantic City mob.Nicky Scarfo reports this to the Genovese and Bobby Manna takes it to Gigante.Next thing you know Manna tells Scarfo they are sending A Gambino soldier named Sammy Gravano to talk to them about it.He told Scarfo that this Gravano was "your kind of guy".Respected by all the famalies.I had always though that Johhny Keys was plotting against Scarfo not Testa
NY originally thought Scarfo was going to take over for Bruno until he passed it to Testa, so maybe that's were the confusion lies. Either that, or Gravano used it as an opportunity to talk a little about Scarfo in his book. Regardless, Simone was probably plotting to take over from when Bruno was killed up until he got it himself.
