In their defense, the Commission bosses who went down in the Commission Trial were new to the whole RICO Act, never before had a slew of mob bosses went down in such a fashion and then slammed with 100-year sentences. Guys like Gotti, Amuso, and Casso on the other hand watched what happened to Corallo, Salerno, Persico, and the others yet still didn't learn from their mistakes. They had no excuse.
Amuso at the time was on the lamb from the Windows case which, 5 out of 8 beat at trial.
I believe he and Caso were looking at a plea deal of 7 years or so.
They killed all their guys and chased others into the arms of the feds over a little bid like that.
When Caso flipped he gave them 39 murders
And officially sank the Luchese ship.
I’m not exactly sure what we are talking about here the last don standing?
Amuso is the last official boss of the 5 families alive from the 90’s era.
By Don so we mean old school, wise, traditional leader of his borgata that did so much for the family as the boss…
I don’t think Amuso falls into that category.
Basically he didn’t rat, but he wasnt supposed rat, as we all know the only one official boss of the 5 families ratted.
So he doesn’t get any points on my score card for not ratting.
And he is not dead yet, so he stayed alive.
Again no points for that.
I am def no expert on the Luke’s and Amuso so if I am wrong and he did all these great things please tell me because I am unaware.
