Gravano was flipping regardless;
- nice upbringing, no struggle
- never did serious time not tested
- was wealthy by this point with a young family
- and finally in every interview he does, in every thing I’ve heard about him, he knew he was gonna flip you can just tell in my opinion. The ego he has, the vanity.. he was always going to flip if hit with serious time.
- and for all his street smarts how dumb was he with that Arizona drug case. Like you’ve just beat a life sentence no parole and you have loads of money - wtf are you and your idiot kids doing..
Hes still more honest a rat than leonetti though lol. Leonetti has never said - “judge hit me with 45 years so I ratted to get out.†Always says some BS about his kid getting in the life and to get away from his murderous uncle lol shut up. That level of denial and straight up lying leads me to think he’s still a Major sociopath deep down. Least he doesn’t pull the bible hustle like Mikey Franzese. God showed me the way lol cmon bro. All about the hustle ££$$.
I've said it before. Leonetti showed his true colors in that 1996 interview. There's a split moment where he doesn't like how the interviewer isn't kowtowing to him with his questions and he gets noticeably angry in his body language.
I honestly think a rat is going to rat period if they're that way inclined, with the rare exception such as Fat Pete Chiodo who was genuinely backed into a corner.
Guys like D'Arco, Leonetti and Gravano are good at spinning a tale to make their decision to rat seem more palatable but they're conmen, that's what they do. It's just another part of the hustle.
You can tell guys like Ida, Manna, Corallo and Salerno are just a different breed. What they do is horrible but they genuinely buy into the twisted sense of honor.
Nicky Crow Caramandi is one guy who at least owns up to ratting to save his own skin. He's a bit of a precursor to guys like Previte and Veasey being inducted in the sense that he was just a straight-up independent scam artist and criminal. He didn't have the ties that bind that would've linked the other guys intrinsically.
