Daniel Simone

Well, it's said that the Pierre was a prime target because of lax security.

According to author Daniel Simone, who wrote the Pierre Hotel Affair, also a great resource, there were only two nighttime security guards.

Another advantage was that many guests were extremely wealthy and used hotel safe deposit boxes, as you said, to store jewelry, cash and other valuables.

And And another way to look at this is apparently these really nice hotels, while they had security, they had guards, they mostly figured people wouldn't dare to rob them.

They look nice.

They look like businessmen or celebrities coming to stay at the hotel.

Well, there's a really interesting story that author Daniel Simone shared.

He interviewed Nikki Sacco for his book.

In two thousand seven, Hill built the narrative even more and claimed that Gotti had made sure it took a long time, citing Sal as his authority on this change.

Then in twenty fifteen, three years after Hill's death, a book he'd worked on with writer Daniel Simone described something very different.

Gotti reportedly fired three quick shots into Tommy's head from a silenced Colt in January nineteen seventy-nine in the basement of an Italian restaurant on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx.

That account was also traced back to Sal Polisi, which means two men citing each other have produced a slow death in a house and a fast one in a restaurant basement.