What were the reasons behind the other families approving the hit by Gambino on Anastasia? I always thought Anastasia was considered to be a powerful successful boss?

Vito genovese needed to remove frank costellos protection anastasia was the only thing standing in the way of genovese taking over the Luciano family gambino was given the task by genovese then hen helped fuck genovese and profaci(from whom he aquired the shooters rhe gallos) andbecame cappo di tutti cappo. also wwhe disaproved of drugdealing be3cause his anastasias beak was wet enuff it happened ten days after the hotel des palmes In Palermo meeting(so im guessing luciano was ok with it at the time but soon realized his mistake wen costello almost got it IMHO) for the heroine pipeline

also because he was a retard and made bad decisions. killing a "squealer" that he saw on a news program did not help.

ya and selling memberships to lcn for 50000 i wonder how the guys who deserved it but couldnt pay felt

I thought that was Frank Scalise who was selling seats? Think of it like this. Willie Moretti was Costello's "strength". In fact, the relationship is seen in The Godfather, with Moretti as Luca Brasi, Costello being Vito (although Brasi was a composite character also based off Joe Gioeli). When Genovese manipulated the Commission in to sanctioning the murder of Moretti, Costello turned to his pal Anastasia to fill in for the former. In theory it was a good choice. Albert was crazy enough to commit murder for a friend - for nothing in return, but Genovese was relentless and pulled the same trick on Anastasia. The wisest thing he did was get Carlo Gambino in on the thing. That certainly helped. But to be fair, there was less manipulation here than when they sanctioned the Moretti hit. Anastasia was wild and was starting to bring heat for murdering goddamn anything. The motive the Commission agreed on was the same motive for setting up partner Lepke Buchalter - gone mad, bringing down heat.

I liked the story of anastasia whacking the shoe salesman for pointing out willie sutton to the police it makes me laugh i don`t care

i wonder if anastasia was alive today would he wear an oversized "NO SNITCHING" T_Shirt