Galante ordered the hit on Pietro Licata, not Rastelli. 1) Carmine needed Salvatore Catalano to become the skipper due to his connections with Sicily, and could bring in more narcotics into the United States. 2) Licata disrespected Giuseppe Buccellato, Frank Navarra and a few more people in the Bonanno family. 3) Carmine never liked Licata and viewed as more treacherous than any other participant in the Bonanno split in the 1960s. 4) Licata was way too friendly with Joe Zingaro in the Gambino family, where there were whispers that Licata was allowing the Gambinos to rack in a lot of money, while the Bonannos did not get lucrative rackets. 5) Licata had sitdowns with Colombo Capo Chris Robino that favored the Colombo family more often. 6) Salvatore Catalano and a few others felt Licata was slowly losing his mind.
7) He was told to keep his relatives in check, and he failed.