Salvatore-Lucchese claims that BorisJohnson was killed for reasons that DID NOT include exposing an as yet unnamed city paying a rogue.

BorisJohnson passed me the LOGS which confirm that a SUBSTANTIAL payment DID take place.

I am going to try and sell the logs to the highest bidder.  If I don't get enough, I will then make them public, in the hope that you, the submissive yet informed consumer, deigns to PAY ME money for yet another GROUNDBREAKING scoop.

Now, you might be asking why BorisJohnson was killed?  Boris was bored, and Salvatore wished to impart upon the new associate some wisdom.  Boris expressed a desire to duel Salvatore.  Salvatore took this as a threat to the head of his family's life, given that he, Salvatore, was the head of the family.  This is almost certainly not why Boris was killed, as Boris also tried to extort the Detroit crime family.  The Detroit syndicate DID NOT BEND TO EXTORTION, and so Boris, it is alleged, attempted to murder one of Detroit's men.

It's up to YOU, the great unhosed, to decide whether or not you think that BorisJohnsons' death was acceptable.  I don't think it was, personally, he was the most exciting thing to happen in this world since the Forever/Fareham War.

Now, let's talk turkey.  

HOW MUCH WILL YOU PAY FOR THE LOGS WHICH EXPOSE A CITY HEAD HANDING SUBSTANTIAL MONEY TO A ROGUE?

Is this an AUCTION? I'll start it OFF at $1. My FINANCES can't stretch to much more but I THINK that's a pretty sweet deal for both PARTIES. Let me know if we have a deal. 

Boris' death was completely acceptable and the narrative that you're trying to spin is complete and utter bullshit. I paid Jaws the amount of $8,000,000 in the form of a loan which I foolishly believed would deter the man/beast from continuing his senseless onslaught. Moments later he broke faith and I shot him in the face. Mystery solved. 

Firstly, it wasn't a payoff, it was a loan that had stipulations attached to it. Call that playing semantics if you wish however I typically refer to 'paying off a rogue' when it involves paying a rogue to support them, pay for a Hit, or elsewise furthering their cause. The pittance of $8,000,000 was well worth it to find out for myself whether or not Jaws was capable of conducting business in a respectable manner - a question which I had answered wholly and succinctly with a resounding and unfortunate no. I often told the man that if he used his skills for Good and not Evil that he would likely be an excellent addition to a City - as he had been prior to (mostly) for my dear friend HeadCoach. 

Furthermore, I do not feel the need to adhere to what is "commonly accepted". I didn't sweat hours of my passion in to these shores to be bound by normality. I mean fuck, is it commonly accepted to have an obese horse running around on LSD? I think not, but yet here we sit, watching him galivant the streets of Chicago neighing at inopportune times. 

"I think we've filled it already sir. Imperium as I understand it conducts investigate journalism with the medium dance. Have you never wondered why he's always there shaking and jiving whenever something of note is going on? It would not surprise me if he's in the bushes over there shaking his pancake flat booty".

Hobbs nodded. He knew these things as he was a wise and experienced investigator himself. In fact, his senses were tingling and he knew he was needed elsewhere on the streets to show his true mettle as Sherlock Hobbs.