"Don't get me wrong, we now know that there were plenty of made guys and top associates who provided varying degrees of info to the feds dating back decades. Lombardozzi, Scarpa, LaTorre, Bompensiero, Lima, Gagliano, etc. But they were dry snitches, and they would NEVER testify in open court which greatly limited their value to the FBI. The fear factor was there. They provided intel, nothing more. Although that too was devastating. But even those sources were nothing compared to today.



If you access my "Rats Nest" list on ButtonGuuys (when we're back up that is, lol), you can count the number of "documented" made men around the country that turned rats publicly. It's well over 100 (well over). And hundreds and hundreds more associates of various stature."

I think the Rat's Nest site is idiotic. The fool who runs it just takes people who were around or at events where info was gathered by the FBI, and assumes a person was a rat. He then runs with it, and gets poised by fools. Lombardozzi is an example, was wrongly labeled a rat, based on an internet a-hole calling himself a researcher. Lombardozzi did time, and was under the gun all the time with LE going after him and even jailing him for awhile when he was old, till that case was dropped for lack of evidence on him---leading to Mr. Rat Trap to say he must have been a rat! Scarpa--rat all the way, no doubt, even his son admitted it.