Joseph Fotti is only an associate, some of the details emerging indicates someone who is made set the wheels in motion, and it seems to becoming from a former member of the Purple Gang, or at least someone who has vast knowledge of that Gang.
Or it could be exactly what Capeci said it was, Foti, recorded prison conversations and court approved wiretaps, that were placed that led them to all this information. As well as the unnamed informants Capeci mentioned whom may or may not be "former members of the Purple Gang". According to Capeci, it seems to be mostly the former, as opposed to what you're claiming. And at the time of Meldish's murder, the Purple Gang for the most part had ceased to exist. Meldish himself had no Purple Gang, he himself was a former member of the old "Purple Gang" group, but Meldish's group for the most part was his own little crew which consisted of guys who sold drugs specifically under his watch, if reports are correct .
