Where were Tessio's men when he was bundled into the car for his last ride
That's a detail FFC no doubt didn't want to deal with. But...
Since Tessio's plan was regicide--killing the Don--secrecy would be the top priority. It'd be in his interest not to tell anyone else about it except the would-be assassins. And, to assure secrecy, they probably wouldn't have been from among Tessio's ranks. He would have recruited outside assassins. This is routine Mafia practice when Dons are whacked. The Gallo brothers, who were with the Profaci Family, killed Albert Anastasia in 1957. Jerome Johnson, not even an associate of any Mafia family, shot and fatally wounded Joe Colombo in 1971. Charlie Luciano used Meyer Lansky to recruit shooters to whack Joe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano in 1931.
