Another reason against this theory is that they were hot to get Castellano and they needed someone direct with Castellano, at most Roy had driven Nino to and sat in on meetings at the SI mansion, he didn't have much direct contact.

It's been ages since I read Murder Machine, but I remember that they were going after Roy to get to Nino, whom they hoped busting would at least seriously weaken Costellano and get Roy's crew off of street at the same time.


This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this, hey, thats great. But it's very, very unpredictable. There are so many ways you can screw it up.-Paul Castellano (he would know)

"I'm not talking about Italians, I'm talking about criminals."-Joe Valachi