Riddles hope of being made wasn't exactly unfounded. Strollo supposedly promised him he'd make him himself if the murder was carried out to expertise. He was probably just selling him hot-air, just saying though. And you laugh and call them "thugs" and a joke and all these other things, but the fact is, the black guys and the jew were the only ones involved in the case whom didn't flip and are still serving their time, if they aren't dead. The big, bad mafioso, flipped the first chance he got.