Believing that Michael ordered the Rosato Brothers to kill him, he had been in the custody of the FBI along with Willie Cicci since the murder attempt. Facing charges of first-degree murder, bookmaking and possession of drug paraphernalia, Pentangeli agreed to testify against Michael. He told FBI agents, and was prepared to tell the committee, that Michael was the most powerful Mafia chief in the nation, and headed a crime family that controlled all of the gambling in North America and had ordered countless murders.
Most damningly, he was prepared to testify that Michael personally murdered Captain McCluskey and Virgil Sollozzo in , and made plans for a mass slaughter of the other New York Dons as early as Cicci had testified to this as well, but was unable to directly implicate Michael in illegal activity because he never received direct orders from him. In contrast, since Pentangeli was a caporegime , there was no insulation between Michael and himself.
The committee thus considered Pentangeli very credible, and was confident he could corroborate Cicci's testimony and send Michael to prison.
Because Pentangeli's protective custody was so secure, Michael could not have him killed before the hearing. Instead, he flew Vincenzo in from Sicily. Upon seeing his brother in the committee room, Frank denied his written testimony and feigned ignorance of the Corleone family's criminal activities.
Frank has his last conversation with Tom Hagen. After the hearing, Tom Hagen visited Pentangeli. Pentangeli discussed how tough his brother was, much tougher than himself. Hagen subtly told Pentangeli that he did the right thing by recanting, and that if he accepted responsibility for turning on the Corleone family, his own family would always be taken care of and remained unharmed, as had happened with insurrectionists against the Roman Emperors.
He thanked Hagen, returned to his room, and slit his wrists in the bathtub with his shaving razor, killing himself. The Corleones kept their word, and Frank's family was well provided for. Frank Pentangeli was an experienced street enforcer before he became Clemenza's right-hand man. It's a story of acceptance and pride told in silent pantomime. Another Corleone capo, Frank Pentangeli, meets an even sadder and more gruesome fate after betraying Michael. Pentangeli initially tries to get Michael to assist him in defending his territory against aggression from the Rosato Brothers, who were working on the orders of their former business associate, Roth.
When we first meet him at Anthony's first communion party, he seems both eager to please and a true believer in Michael's new regime, even obsequious. That goes sideways when Michael never provides Pentangeli with the firepower he needs to protect his territory. Pentangeli eventually offers to testify against Michael at his senate trial and is placed under witness protection. Once again, family loyalty undoes one of Puzo and Coppola's characters.
Michael forces Pentangeli to recant his testimony by taking his brother hostage. After the trial dissolves into chaos, Tom Hagen Robert Duvall , the Corleone family's lawyer and adopted son, shows up at Pentangeli's compound to inform him in so many words that if he commits suicide as penance for speaking out against Michael at the trial, his family will be taken care of for life.
Pentangeli subsequently slits his wrists in a bathtub — a dual display of love for his family and respect for Michael's authority. Coppola's theme of familial sacrifice is solidly hammered home, thanks to a series of flashbacks which explore the early life of Michael's father, Vito De Niro. In scenes that show us Vito's life in the early s, we follow the young man to America after he flees Don Ciccio, the mobster who has killed his parents and brother in an act of revenge.
If Michael's journey during "The Godfather" is about how his values and beliefs die off in the name of the mob's code of honor and pleasing his father, then Vito's story is about how opportunity combined with familial devotion and anti-immigrant sentiments to make a velvet-handed monster.
Vito builds both a family and a criminal empire thinly covered by an olive oil importing business, and he eventually claims a violent revenge on Ciccio. One final flashback to shows the Corleones as a happy family at a birthday dinner for Vito, as remembered by an exhausted and disgusted Michael after Fredo's murder. It is here that a much more idealistic Michael announces that he's quit college and joined the marines to fight for the Allied side during World War II. Tom and Sonny react negatively to the news.
Both men have a stronger loyalty to their father and their country; Michael even points out that Sonny sounds like a clone of their father. Connie, meanwhile, tunes out the drama and eventually leaves the room entirely as Michael and Sonny nearly come to blows.
Ironically, only Fredo supports Michael's plan to drop out. The family leaves Michael alone to brood at the dinner table while they rush to greet the newly-arrived Vito at the doorstep, while Michael takes a fortifying sip of wine. Corleone convinced his innocence to Senator Pat Geary and the courtroom, using Pentangelli's own brother from Sicily against him, hence he was not accused of perjury.
Simultaneously, Al Neri was tasked with the killing of Fredo for his betrayal. In the meantime, Corleone consigliere Tom Hagen met with Pentangeli and talked to him about how a servant of Rome i. Frank would treat himself after rebelling the court trial against his emperor Michael , to which Frank responded that they would have a party before getting into a bathtub and slitting his own wrists to bleed to death.
Understanding the implications of their conversation, Frank carries out his suicide shortly later. While playing cards, two federal agents noticed that he was in the bathroom too long and barged in, only to notice his wrists slit and blood all over the sides of the tub.
In the airport terminal, Rocco Lampone came out and shot Hyman Roth with a revolver up close and was killed by federal agents. Thus, the conspirators were all killed. In The Godfather II video game , the Roth Conspiracy also covers several other smaller conflicts, such as the Trapani - Mangano War , which was an attempt by Hyman Roth to set his two greatest competitors, Dominic and Samuele Mangano , against each other.
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