When eight members of the Genovese family were murdered on Galante's orders for trying to muscle in on his drug operation, the other families decided he had outlived his usefulness at the head of the Bonanno family.
Anybody know if there's much truth in that and if so what happened? Who were the Genovese who were killed?
(sort of unrelated but thought I'd ask anyway.)
That seems to have been some kind of Mafia urban myth. It's been brought up a few times on the forums, all quoting the one source that originally claimed it but I forget who that was. I've never seen it substantiated anywhere.
On the truetv criminal library website writer Anthony Bruno says it in his article on the Bonanno family which means it's most likely in one of his books too. Not sure if he was the original source of the story or not though.
Personally i seriously doubt it's true, a few OC websites say it was high ranking Gambino's involved in the heroin racket. Most likely just a bullshit story started by some writer to beef up whatever story or book he was trying to push at the time.
In my opinion the story is about as credible as the Iceman taking out Galante.
