Here is an article that basically says he had to swim in the same water as others in the Mob-controlled era, but that didn't make him a stooge of the Mafia:

https://www.boxinginsider.com/inter...r-discusses-great-mysterious-cus-damato/

Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.