Sammy was only a soldier under pauls time. Frank d was bumped to capo in the early 80tys. I think gotti had planned to kill paul with frank. And others. Frank brought sammy into it not gotti. He wouldnt have trust him. Sammy started getting power after frank is blown up otherwise he may have never risen above capo. Also sammy told nino paul was gonna have him killed after the demeo crew n pauls stolen car trial. He said it on the ravenite tapes. Explaining paul was gonna kill nino in time. For all the heat with demeo an the cop