King has a point about Nardi & Danny Greene though. Pretty sure Nardi wasn't even made, Danny Greene literally had a handful of guys who killed for him, very few of them were LCN affiliated and was a virtual nobody in the world of OC, but his partnership with Nardi and fearlessness preserved his life for a bit and excelled him further into the underworld than he probably should've ever been. Yet he gets a sit down with Fat Tony Salerno, the front boss of the Genovese, same guy who also sat with Chin g Funzi Tieri during the Caponigro meeting. Technically if they can meet with someone that close to a boss, I don't see why a high ranking, high earning capo from Philadelphia wouldn't be able to. I highly doubt he would've gotten an okay to clip Scarfo nor did I ever imply he'd be taking over any family. But I also doubt they'd tell him basically not to defend himself. Which is the whole point I was getting at before, from all accounts Salvie Testa was prepared to kill for his life, just as much as any other man would be.

Scarfo made mostly younger guys, and mostly all of those guys grew up with Salvie Testa, Grande, Leonetti, Scarfo Jr, the Pungitore's, etc. And not all of those guys were as close to Nicky as Salvie was, and in fact, Salvie brought in most of those guys into the Scarfo circle. So either way, killing Salvie was Scarfo's downfall, because young guys and the very few old guys Scarfo made and kept around from the Bruno days, saw it as, "if he'd kill him, we're all expendable".