If you listen how everything played out leading up to him being boss, you can say he was a victim of his era. The last two bosses were murdered. Now he comes to be boss and he has new rules. Despite arrangements with prior Dons, Riccobene was disobeying the Philly boss. If he doesn't fall in line, others might to the same. "You gotta kill people. And you gotta keep on killing em." Little Nicky
Westside would of thought he was week and they had there hand out constantly as it was. You know if those two families ( Westside and Scarfo )they would of done real good going forward and they would of got Gotti but Feds were able to get in both families. Fucken got Bobby Mana and others on a bug that crushed them.
