I think you have to take what both Joe and Bill Bonanno said in their autobiographies with a dump truck of salt. Very much a whitewash job. Like most mob guys, they're going to try to make themselves look more noble than their counterparts or than they themselves probably were. Bottom line, given the Bonanno family's deep involvement in the drug trade, both before and after Bonanno was sent packing to Arizona, I find it very hard to believe he took a hard stance against narcotics.


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