At one point in time according the "ORIGINAL RULES OF OMERTA" any member admitting to being a apart of LCN in general And/Or part of a crew of LCN And/Or a leader of LCN would be considered "BREAKING THE CODE"

Gigante plead guilty to running the Genovese Crime Family from behind bars and Faking his sickness for years.

Hence you have the reason Gotti as boss forbid his guys to take plea deals.

Chin was as guilty as everyone else that did it.

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If you read from the beginning of the thread

I stated that according to the "OLD RULES"

I also stated that at some point that all changed and it became perfectly acceptable to take plea deals and it NOT to be considered "BREAKING THE CODE"

I am speculating that was right after the "COMMISSION TRIAL", "THE WINDOWS CASE" and the "GENE GOTTI" case.

After those trials the guys all got "HAMMERED" with long sentences.

Somewhere in the 90's this shift occurred

This was really right after "RICO" was successfully used for the first few times.

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