It would be almost stranger to think that the guys he mentioned could attain all that power without cooperation of some kind in order to sustain it. Guys like Luciano and Gambino have gained an almost mythical aura in the eyes of crime aficionados. Their truths are probably less glamorous.
Luciano reached the height of his power in 1936, and got 40 years on a frame up, so that sounds like the opposite of. snitch. Gambino sated low key till 1963, then was hounded by the FBI for years, they even released transcripts of him and his wife arguing. Yet they never caught hi son tapes, that is what kept him out of prison. They did arrest him several times once on a armed robbery he had nothing to do with, which is said to be the one time he got angry during an arrest. Not a rat. Case closed,
