Some people have their beliefs no matter what they will stick to them, the tattoo on his back let's everyone know: Morte prima di disonore - Death before dishonor.
Watts is another associate that never ratted, Edmund Boyle another one put in decades behind bars, still 10 more years to go, Burton Kaplan stood tall for a long time, even when Casso flipped, and at 65 years old they gave him 27 years and still he refused to rat, finally they came to him 9 years later and said you're going to die in prison for what? All you have to do is rat on the 2 crooked "Mafia Cops" and you can go home and see your grand kid, after years of watching made guys flip, he said to himself: why am I staying true when you got made guys flipping? All I have to do is rat on cops.