Yeah but I mean...Paul had gotten used to a certain standard of living, of being THE BOSS with his big mansion, live in maid and he treasured above all his credibility as a businessman. I mean, this is a guy who wouldn't even go to the funeral of his Underboss for fear of it touching his reputation as a legitimate businessman. He wasn't a guy who had done much time in prison (I think his longest stretch was 3 months in the 1930s?), so it's not like doing time came naturally to him.

It's easy to say "Fuck the Feds" in the early stretch of a trial but look at Gravano. On the streets Gravano had balls of steel, probably the last guy you'd expect to flip but when faced with a certain sentence of "from now on"...He couldn't stand the heat.