According to Gravano, DeCicco came up in Jimmy Brown's crew. However, like Tonytough said, even if DeCicco had said not to hit Jimmy Brown, in the heat of the moment they still could have shot him.
I think the only reason decicco let john be boss in order to take the heat from the fbi and he figured gotti would probably be convicted within a year. Frank Deciccos death was a blessing to gotti otherwise he would of probably been dead or jail sooner
I often wonder what happens to Gotti if DeCicco doesn't die.
Same here. Something that has the be mentioned is that if DeCicco didn't die, he would have been indicted on June 19, 1986 along with Gallo, Armone etc off the Castellano wiretap. While that doesn't necessarily mean he would be off to prison (Jimmy Brown and Joe Butch were acquitted) it's worth thinking about.
I found out about that in Robert DiBernardo's FBI file:
http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/2011/11/gambino-capo-dealed-in-boy-on-boy-porn.html
