Bobby Manna would have had to give his okay around this time too, no?
And wasn't the Galante hit very internal as well? The Bonanno Broolyn, Littly Italy Canada and Zip Crews were all in on it.
Did it ultimately have more to do with his monopolizing the heroin trade and refusing to properly cut the other families in, or more to do with his greediness within his own family and the instability it created among Rusty loyalists?
Could be several factors: refusing to give a cut of his heroin proceeds to the other families, trying to seize control of the Bonanno family from Phil Rastelli, killing off several Gambino or Genovese (which one, IDK) family members and muscling in on their rackets.
Highly likely that it was both internal and external things that led to Galante's whacking.
Rusty, via Big Joey Massino, sought to have Galante rubbed off. Plus with Funzi (with Benny Squint's approval), Tony Ducks, Big Paulie, Santo Trafficante, Joe Bananas and Gerry Catena okaying the hit.
