It just shows you how weak the mafia has become in todays day and age. In the old days whether a snitch went into witness protection or not they would have been clipped. The execution would have been made public as to send a message to others not to do the same.

But I agree I feel that anyone of us in his shoes with the power and money would have done the same. Once caught and facing life in prison and the fact that what you once considered friends were trying to have you clipped you would have rolled over on them.