@ ciment @ moe
You know what baffles me about that book? I still have no fuckin idea if Casso was wacking rats, or just making a lot of it up. The book makes it seem like, these guys were all rats. They also make Kaplan look like the real brains behind Casso, kinda...
The answer to this is best described at the bottom of page 48.
"Together,Amuso and Casso possessed a toxic combination of incompetence,violence and paranoia."
"They killed anyone they suspected of snitching, or having the potential to snitch."
Once paranoia takes place even the people around you also become paranoid and will snitch even though they originally had no intention to do so. Especially in the criminal world when your life is on the line.
