He died of alcoholism. Brain hemorrhage they attributed to cirrhosis. Must have been doing some heavy drinking when he was on the lam in the Poconos for those two years before he died.

On those tapes between Ruggiero,, Gotti and Dellacroce doesn't Ruggerio say if he was just talking about "someone like Buddy" he'd give up the tapes no problem? He was referring to Dellacroce's own kid like that in front of him? Or was he talking about some other "Buddy"?