It's possible for one reason only: The Bronx/Harlem faction was getting ready to go on the offensive with the backing of Chin and the Westside at EXACTLY that time (around '91).


That's the life, Moe. Years ago, you'd walk down the street and see a brokester who owed the whole neighborhood, then say to yourself, How the fuck is that guy still walking around? Some people just get lucky. Other guys die for absolutely nothing. But if you choose that life, it's on you.

Besides, they had no one else in the Brooklyn faction with a little experience who they could bullshit into believing that he was the boss. That crew was THAT fucked up at the time.


I doubt it, but who knows? The Casso telephone thing might have been D'Arco raising his voice out of frustration, then embellishing it in the book.

As far as Bowat and that sitdown, I doubt that, too. But again, you never know. You have to take a very powerful position at the table to be taken seriously or you'll get eaten alive.