Originally Posted By: Dwalin2011
Originally Posted By: NickyWhip
The OP question of whether not Funzi Duped Chin - Based on what Leonetti says in Mafia Prince the answer is No.

According to the book, Manna asked Scarfo if there were problems down in Philly with Bruno would he be with Manna? Or something like that. Basically Manna tipped his hand to Scarfo that someone wasn't happy with Bruno.

So, by deduction, because there are no facts- Manna and tieri knew. Therefore Chin and Salerno knew

Wait a minute: IF we believe the book, then Chin allegedly wasn't on it, otherwise why would he be surprised and ask Tieri "what is he talking about, Frank?" during their interrogation of Caponigro, while discussing the Bruno murder? I mean, there was no need to pretend, they were alone in the room in 4: Caponigro, Tieri, Gigante and Manna. If Gigante was on it, he could well admit it in those circumstances and tell Caponigro "we just duped you into killing Bruno but you will pay the price because nobody is going to know or believe you anyway".


Actually the line about Gigante asking Tieri what the matter was about is simply the story that was given Scarfo by Manna. And the Genovese brass, while close to Scarfo, had no compunctions about lying to him on certain things (like the Castellano hit being approved).

Basically we only know about the likely triple cross of Caponigro based on Scarfo's connecting of the dots from what he was told by the Genovese, I don't think they ever spelled it out to him, he was just street-smart enough to put it all together in the grand scheme of things.