5/26/2023 0 Comments Stella giganteChin says his source tells him it's Guapo and since Bumpy failed to take out Valachi, he must whack Guapo instead. Valachi says he can give them the name of an inside man - not one of the mafioso, but someone who's worked with them for 30 years. Costello states this as a condition for making Esther James' (the black "bagwoman" named by Powell in the last episode) lawsuit go away. Now, Powell does this in defiance of a warning from another member of the committee, as well as Frank Costello, to go easy on Valachi and not demand any more names. This comes out when Valachi, at the next hearing, is pushed by Powell to name another member of the mafia. For, Guapo, it turns out, has made a deal of his own with the Feds to testify against the mob in return for not getting sent to prison. He claims it was an honest mistake, but Bumpy later suspects it was intentional. Bumpy's plan to whack Valachi is a bust (which is slightly predictable given how long-drawn-out that sequence is) because it turns out Guapo has given them the wrong room number. A subpoena is sent for Chin, who avoids it by pretending to be mentally ill. Before this, however, Valachi, who was part of the Genovese family, gives out Chin's name at the hearing, as the current leader of that family. So Bumpy goes to his friend Guapo for help to find out his exact location (that neighbourhood being a Latino one) and then sends his guy to assassinate Valachi. Valachi, it turns out, is being kept in Queens, NY and flown back and forth to DC for the hearings.
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