If I remember correctly, Morena was deported after a prison stretch in the US.
Like Vito said he was a Bonanno associate at the time.
Then he settled in Canada. Most likely illegally due to his past conviction and expulsion from America.
I would guess that he didn't want to get shipped back overseas for a second time so he flipped.

That's the thing with zips.

The only ones truly worth something are the drug brokers.

Zip enforcers, on the other hand, are nothing special.

First off, to settle here legally, they must be unknown, young, with no criminal history.
The more established ones most certainly have a record so they won’t make it through immigration.

Second of all, either way the come here legally or illegally, they won’t even be able do their “job” freely because of the threat of deportation constantly looming over their heads. Even a simple assault charge can get them kicked out of the country (like Walter Samperi)…or make them flip (like Biagio Adornetto, Sergio Battaglia, Enzo Morena, etc).

It seems that the direction the LCN has taken is in line with this thinking.

Do business with the zips who count on the global drug market and use your own local meatheads as muscle.

Recent indictments prove that there’s always an abundance of leg-breakers around.