On Peter Casella, his financial situation, his position over the years and why Testa chose him as underboss:

- Casella came from a mafiosi family and his father, Salvatore, was an early member of the Philadelphia borgata
- Casella had been involved in drug dealing as far back as the 1930s
- He earned a reputation as a hit man
- When boss John Avena died, Casella took over part of his gambling operations
- Casella's own numbers operation spanned from Philadelphia to North and South Jersey
- By the 1950s Casella was identified as one of the top members of the family and reported direct to underboss Marco Reginelli
- Casella was said to be one of the few members who could authorise a murder
- He lived a very flashy lifestyle and was a frequent gambler
- His luck changed in the 1950s and he got into debt
- He began frequently drinking and was involved in scandals involving prostitutes and underage girls
- Casella then got back into heroin dealing (possibly being financed by Angelo Bruno and Antonio Pollina)
- Casella and some contacts from New York sold opium and heroin to undercover agents in 1958
- Casella was possibly trying to use drug money to become boss of the family
- Casella survived the 1950s due to his friendship with Angelo Bruno
- In 1959 he was sent to prison and served 17 years on drug charges
- While in prison he made more contacts with the New York families
- When Angelo Bruno was killed (according to Nick Caramandi), Casella used his contacts to set meetings up for Phil Testa in New York
- Casella was still broke at this time and felt he should have been made boss instead of Testa
- Testa then makes Casella the underboss to placate him
- According to Phil Leonetti, everyone was left scratchig their heads by Testa's decision
- Nicky Scarfo felt he should have been made underboss instead of Casella because of Casella's history as a drug dealer

Frank Narducci and the plot to kill Testa:

- According to Leonetti, Frank Narducci had plotted against Testa in the 1970s when he got into a feud with Angelo Bruno
- A plan was briefly floated to kill Testa and replace him as underboss with Narducci (this obviously never happened)
- According to Caramandi, Narducci was upset when Testa became boss because he expected to be made consigliere
- Casella, broke but with connections to New York, and Narducci, rich and ambitious, decided to kill Testa so that Casella could become the new boss
- According to Leonetti, the plan was for Casella to become the new boss and appoint Narducci as his underboss
- Narducci would then give Casella $1million so he could retire
- Narducci would then become the boss in his place
- Rocco Marinucci approached Teddy DiPietro to make the bomb, he explained that when Casella became the boss they (Marinucci and DiPietro) would run the family for him
- They used the nail bomb specifically to make it look like it came from outside of LCN (similiar to the later plan to kill John Gotti with a bomb so the Genovese and Luchese families could blame it on the zips)
- Casella and Narducci blamed Testa's murder on associate John Berkery, claiming he did it as revenge for the murder of popular roofer's union leader John McCullough (which had been ordered by Testa and Scarfo)
- Casella also had the backing of his brother-in-law and family capo John Cappello (though they weren't that close)
- Casella hoped that his connections to New York (and his fabricated story about Berkery) would be enough to get permission to become the new boss
- Scarfo instead reached out to Blackie Napoli to go arrange a meeting with Bobby Manna and the Genovese family
- Scarfo and Chuckie Merlino went to a meeting at Cappello's house where they told Casella of this meeting with the Genovese family
- Leonetti was holding Cappello as insurance at this time, and Scarfo believed that without that insurance he and Merlino would have been killed at the meeting with Casella
- Casella and Scarfo then went to New York to meet with Vincent Gigante
- Casella confessed but, thanks to his connections to a Genovese capo, was spared on the condition that he be put on the shelf and move to Florida
- Scarfo then became the new boss, Cappello was taken down, Narducci was killed, Casella died a few years later in Florida and his brother Anthony (who had been made in 1980) became a recluse and was also shelved

On Frank Narducci as a capo:

- Narducci most likely had a crew for reasons I'll lay out
- When Narducci was made in the 1960 he was assigned to Phil Testa (then a capo)
- Testa's crew consisted of Narducci, Frank Monte and a bunch of older guys
- In 1969, Narducci proposed John Grande to be made and Testa proposed Frank Iannarella Sr (these individuals, when straightened out, would therefore be assigned to Testa's crew)
- Then in the 1970s Testa becomes underboss and Narducci a capo
- It would not be an unreasonable assumption, therefore, that Narducci took over Testa's crew (which would mean he at least had Grande, Iannarella and Monte under him in the 1970s)
- Then in 1980 Salvatore Grande and Frank Narducci Jr are made, so they would likely go to Narducci Sr's crew
- Frank Monte is a capo by 1981 (perhaps running a new crew, perhaps he got Iannarella Sr and some of the younger guys or got a portion of John Simone's crew)
- When Scarfo and Merlino went to the meeting at Cappello's house, the individuals waiting for them were Narducci Sr, Peter Casella, Anthony Casella, John Grande, Joseph Grande and Rocco Marinucci
- The above would suggest that the Grandes were still part of Narducci's crew at that time
- Furthermore, when Narducci was killed his numbers operation was taken over by the Grandes
- Salvie Testa was promoted to capo after Narducci's murder and given a crew of younger guys that included Wayne Grande and Windows Narducci

On the possible involvement of Simone, Sindone and Ciancaglini in the Bruno murder:

- According to Caramandi, Ciancaglini was called to a meeting by Testa, Casella and Scarfo after the Bruno hit
- At that meeting, Ciancaglini convinced them that he hadn't been involved
- Personally, I don't think Ciancaglini was involved because there's also significant doubt over whether Simone, Stanfa or Sindone were involved
- According to Caramandi and Leonetti, Simone and Sindone were killed for their involvement in the Bruno murder
- Caramandi goes as far as to say that Caponigro was going to make Sindone his underboss
- According to George Fresolone, Simone, Stanfa and Sindone were not involved in the Bruno murder
- According to Fresolone, Stanfa could not have rolled down the window on Bruno's car because the vehicle did not have automatic windows
- Fresolone notes that Bruno rolled down the window himself on occassion while cruising around
- Stanfa was also not Bruno's regular driver and only volunteered to do so because Mario Riccobene was unavailable and Raymond Martorano made up an excuse
- Martorano later told Riccobene that he had been involved in Bruno's death
- According to Fresolone and Frank Friel, Sindone was the popular choice to take over the family after Bruno and was killed because of the threat he posed to Testa and Scarfo's leadership
- Fresolone stated that Caponigro planned to make Pasquale Martirano (who also had no knowledge of the murder) his underboss rather than Sindone
- Fresolone notes that the meeting Sindone, Simone and Stanfa went to New York for was to question them about the murder and, if the New York bosses felt they were involved they would have been killed
- Fresolone was instructed to get a gun and prepare for a hit in case it was decided that they should be killed that night
- According to Sammy Gravano, Simone was killed because he was plotting to take over the family
- Simone was angry at the Genovese family and blamed Gigante for the turmoil in Philadelphia, telling Gravano that he knew Gigante was behind Caponigro's plot
- Simone tried to get the support of the Gambino family and Cleveland
- Scarfo found out that Simone had been meeting with Gambino member Nicholas Russo in Trenton and accused the Gambinos of secretly siding with him
- The Commission then voted to kill Simone and gave the contract to the Gambino family
- Gravano, Louie Milito, Joe D'Angelo, Nick Russo and Joey Farinella then kidnapped and killed Simone