Sal was young and was probably banging a handful of other broads.

It was the Genovese not the Gambinos and I doubt either family would be ok with a 28 year old boss imo

Even tho Salvie would have been a better Boss than Nicky could've ever been in his wildest dreams

who knows why? maybe he had no idea how threatened he was? Or maybe he just accepted it as how life goes? no one knows. He hadd saved Nickey once by taking that shotgun blast to the arm and maybe h Salviethought there was no way Nicky was wacking him for no reason after that show of loyalty. Nicky was a psycho and the Philly fam in the 80's y all accounts was the wild west.

Sal had bad vibes but I'm pretty sure he thought since Nicky was his godfather and phil testa was Nicky's mentor that Salvie thought whatever the beef was that it would blow over. Salvie was a one man army during the riccobene war and solidified Nicky's leadership. He prob thought chuckie was the one w the beef and Nicky would eventually squash it. Boy was he wrong

Salvie just accepted the fact he was gonna get killed. Leonetti said he wasnt the type of guy who runs away.

Yea why would Sal Testa run to Big Paul to try and have Scarfo whacked when Scarfo had the backing of the West side? Surely that could have caused a war and surely Paul was not that stupid to interfere with family business.

Look what happened with Bruno......Someone on this board said that The Chin intervened and saved Bruno's life.....Someone saved his life and told them no one touches that kid and it sure wasn't Massino, Rastelli or, Napolitano that chose to let a guy named whack whack off the hook.

I just think that if an employee can always go over a local bosses head, if their is a true injustice, the same ought to apply in the underworld.....Otherwise, the real strength of the organization(soldiers and associates) would lose faith in the structure and could group together, rebel and wipe out all the upper levels. They outnumber upper levels by 50:1. What is stopping that from occurring? Carlo Gambino's awesome Brazilian Jui Jitsu? Anthony Casso's aikido?
Look at what Luciano did with all his young buddies to set order back!

My point is the Genovese seemed to be the ones that installed and supported Scarfo. So why would Big Paul who seemed to have a better relationship with them than Philly, tell Testa he could have Scarfo hit in favor of Testa? Carlo might have had a hand in Philly but it seems to me Big Paul let them go about their own business.

What's with all the admiration for Testa? Just don't get it. Guy was a scum bag and he didn't get killed for no reason. He got killed because he broke off the wedding and because he was perceived as a major threat. That's not no reason. Some of you are a trip like he was the last action hero or something. This guy was a stone cold piece of shit I'm sure he wouldn't bother to piss on you if you were on fire.