The Mob
Check out these stats, it may help you wonder a bit less. The ATF investigates between 800 and 900 bombings a year. Arsons, even more.
If "THEY" have you thinking muzzie nutcases everytime someone firebombs a building, then "THEY" have already won.
Just say'n - not everything is as it first appears.....
Also, Paulie could do anything. Like run up bills on the joint's credit. And why not? Nobody will pay for it anyway. Take deliveries at the front door and sell it out the back at a discount. Take a $200 case of booze and sell it for $100. It doesn't matter. It's all profit. Then finally, when there's nothing left... when you can't borrow another buck from the bank... you bust the joint out.
You light a match.