He was so mad his place got bugged he wanted to whack his brother who was surprised to find illegal bugs planted by the feds. He had a 30 yr reign. Guess in 1980 he was sick he made bianco his acting boss and that pissed off the anguilo brothers in Boston since jerry was official underboss. And he told the captain in Worcester he couldn't kill jerry over a golf course outburst think it was iacone. He died in bed lot of other bosses didn't. His legend still is big in my area and there was a few genovese guys out here but they were with him and them I read. He was tight with Vito genovese his fellow neo.
It would have been open season if Anguilo became boss. He was not well liked it seemed and yes he told one capo that if Jerry didn't cool it the next time he could kill him. Keeping Anguilo happy was the smartest thing Patriarca could do because it kept him rich. The only way we would have seen Anguilo on top is if Zannino still backed him and Russo went along with it. I'm not sure if Zannino would have had his back or not if he was out when Ray Sr. died and he backed Junior.
Does anyone know if J.R. Russo and Zannino were close?