<P> To draw out rival mobster Virgil Sollozzo , Don Corleone orders Brasi to pretend he is switching allegiances . Brasi hangs out at Bruno Tattaglia 's nightclub , beds a waitress working there , and openly complains that he is underpaid . When that information filters back to Tattaglia , he offers Brasi a meeting . Brasi arrives , wearing a bulletproof vest . Sollozzo , after promising friendship , a job , and $50,000 , has him subdued and garroted to death . Sonny Corleone , Tom Hagen , and others in the family learn of Brasi 's demise by receiving a dead fish wrapped in Brasi 's bulletproof vest , indicating he `` sleeps with the fishes '' , meaning that Brasi 's corpse was thrown into a body of water by Solozzo 's and Tattaglia 's men . </P>
<P> To draw out rival mobster Virgil Sollozzo , Don Corleone orders Brasi to pretend he is switching allegiances . Brasi hangs out at Bruno Tattaglia 's nightclub , beds a waitress working there , and openly complains that he is underpaid . When that information filters back to Tattaglia , he offers Brasi a meeting . Brasi arrives , wearing a bulletproof vest . Sollozzo , after promising friendship , a job , and $50,000 , has him subdued and garroted to death . Sonny Corleone , Tom Hagen , and others in the family learn of Brasi 's demise by receiving a dead fish wrapped in Brasi 's bulletproof vest , indicating he `` sleeps with the fishes '' , meaning that Brasi 's corpse was thrown into a body of water by Solozzo 's and Tattaglia 's men . </P>
what does luca brasi sleeps with the fishes mean
what does luca brasi sleeps with the fishes mean
that Brasi 's corpse was thrown into a body of water by Solozzo 's and Tattaglia 's men
that Brasi 's corpse was thrown into a body of water by Solozzo 's and Tattaglia 's men