Good point, TB. Let's not forget, this is 1959; years before the idea of any kind of "Witness Protection."
Frankie was a protected witness in the same vein as Valachi was in the '60s. Valachi in a segregated place in prison, Frankie on an army base. But if a guy like Tom ever did turn, where would he have gone?
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
