Yeah, but he did kill a made guy, didn't he?
According to the Hill biography, everyone knows you can't do that, no exceptions.
I mean, maybe they recognized that he was bad news in the larger sense, but it wouldn't have mattered if he was totally buttoned down most of the time. You kill a made man, you're done. True?
You pull a made man off a girl he’s beating, you’re done.
Until Gotti changed all that by whacking a BOSS WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE OTHER BOSSES.
Can’t be more made than a boss. But in the interest of peace, and a complete lack of respect the families had for Castellano, nothing was done.
Castellano talking about erectile dysfunction with his maid didn’t exactly endear him to the other wiseguys.
They thought that was the ULTIMATE sign of weakness, crying to a woman about sexual problems.