Whose ass should I kick?
Vito for appointing Tom consigliere or Tom a good lawyer not Mafia consigliere Both
I started a thread on this subject here:
http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=761864&Searchpage=1&Main=29538&Words=%2Bliability&Search=true#Post761864
I didn't realize this thread was the book forum!
Sonny was a hothead can't talk business with him Tom's appointment was in peace time
Vito wasn't exactly overrun with choices He knew Sonny was a bad Don, Tom wasn't a wartime Consiglieri
I don't think Tom put all the pieces together of Michael's baptism murders master plan In fairness they played everything close to their chest and needed him to be clean
He knew they were going to come at Michael but then says he thought it would have been Clemenza not Tessio He knew Tessio was a dead man but I reckon he didn't figure the brutality of it all No one did!
He did find out about the existence of Rocco's secret regime but reckon that was because of the finances, they were being paid more than their jobs worth and Rocco was reporting direct to Michael not through him
