Originally posted by GodYankee:
But Turnbull, the Chairman or Questadt could have said, "Were you responsible for the murders of the heads of the Barzini and Tatagglia Families in 1950?"
Yes, but they probably would have had difficulty pronouncing their names. "The Five Families" makes them sound (to their constituents) like they really know something about the Mafia.
Wiseguy: you hit on one of the big mistakes in GFII. The Great Five Families Massacre occurred in 1955, not in 1950, as the Senator said (attest Vito Corleone's headstone in the burial scene). Thus Michael was really guilty of only four counts of perjury: he didn't lie when he denied that he was "responsible for the murder of the heads of the Five Families in 1950."
