Excellent info, guys!
Stepping back a little: You can never to wrong by following the money in any Mob dispute. Bonanno's "vacation" in Italy in 1957, when he met with Charlie Luciano and his Sicilian partners to set up a drug pipeline, couldn't have sat well with Genovese, who called the Apalachin meeting in part to get blessing for nationwide drug trafficking. And, his forays into Canada had to piss off Cousin Stefano, who regarded Canada as his territory.

Also have to ask: What kind of "leader" (or "Father," as Bonanno so grandly called himself in his autobiography) deserts his troops in a war by staging a "kidnapping" so he could take himself out of the line of fire and duck a grand jury subpoena? Small wonder half of his people deserted him for DiGregorio, rather than wait for his return and be led by son Bill.