Because they respected him, initially. Montagna was already known as a messenger between the Montreal members and New York. The authors of Mafia Inc. state in their book that after Montagna settled in Montreal and was introduced to Desjardins that the two decided to work together and conspire against the Rizzuto family.
I can't imagine being a Bonnano meant a whole lot at this time in Montreal. So I'm guessing they just took him on board as an extra body for help because he was already a mobster and knew the game? He probably assumed that he can run them because he had a high rank back in NY and they welcomed him, guess he was wrong.
I guess they took him in because he represented the Bonannos and killing Nick Rizzuto would've required an official sanction.
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So then who did he answer to? I understand that prior to all of this Vito was his boss and he was a close associate, but if he ran this crew and flipped on the Rizzuto family, who was giving the orders if not for Di Maulo? Why would Vito kill Di Maulo? Obviously it was either he was the head or one of the leaders of the opposition, or he chose to keep quite and do nothing to stop the war.
I think that he answered to himself. By that time Desjardins had become a force to be reckoned with. But I've little doubt that at the very least he had support from Di Maulo for obvious reasons. I think Di Maulo was killed for not only doing anything to stop the putch, but also because he seemed to have had an advisory role to Desjardins and in effect Montagna.
"It was between the brothers Kay -- I had nothing to do with it."
