Exactly. Nicky Jr was as "real" as being a "gangster" gets...People fail to realize how hard crime really is, youre living a life where day after day you have to scheme to make a dollar, you have to develop trustworthy relationships, regardless of what your business is, and it's those relationships which save your life and enable you to thrive. Nicky Jr thrived up until the FirstPlus case, which like others have already said, he got comfortable and enabled himself to be caught. I don't particularly believed he sat around thinking "well shit Joey Merlino and his guys, and the Taccetta's don't like me, gotta run", he took his licks, developed the relationships that mattered to him and will forever be looked at as an earner. Even after he was knocked down from capo to soldier, he was still earning and was earning big.