Wiseguy wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 1:21 pmBack in 2009, the head of the FBI's OC program said that the Genovese family "keeps their hit teams small." What Delgatti did is an obvious departure from that. Sub-contracting it out to other groups obviously has its risks too.newera_212 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 7:09 amThis is a really good answer. This was one of the biggest blunders in LCN's modern era, by far. Just stupidity from top to bottom. This should really take away the allure of the Genovese a little, too. I'm going out on a limb guessing that this kid got DeBello's approval (for the hit itself, not for how it was planned) - and combined with what he had going on money wise, he figured if this were handled, he'd be potentially proposed for membership. You'd think it'd be handled a LOT better if that were on the line. It's funny because it seems like DeBello's most competent and serious guy was a non-Italian who couldn't even be made - the rest of the guys in that crew, the Italians, seemed like idiots.
I'm no hitman but, just at first glance from a distance, it seems the safest approach would be to keep a hit in-house and use as small a number of trusted people to carry it out as possible.
Gotti and Co. get a lot of kudos for the Castellano/Bilotti hit but, considering how many people involved they had at the scene, that could have gone wrong any number of ways. They were very lucky. But even then, as we've seen, the more people involved, the more potential for someone to eventually talk.
I wonder if Debello got in trouble for that from his higher ups. It was really stupid and if there's any reason to shelf a guy, that's at the top of the list. At the same time practically no heat came to the Genovese at all (I don't even think we know for sure who Debello even reports to) so I could see them saying fuck it. I mean the guy is old as hell and had his bail revoked a few days before Christmas, gotta be rough. Just seemed like such a weird change of pace for the genovese