Originally Posted By: waynethegame
Originally Posted By: Sonny_Black
Originally Posted By: waynethegame
Barzini could have stepped in to pick up the connections that abandoned Vito due to his going in on the drugs


So Vito's 'friends in high places' would abandon him for someone who was up his neck in drugs as well? Does that make sense?


There was nothing to my recollection connecting Barzini with drugs, and Barzini was the second most powerful Mafioso behind Vito. If Vito was exposed as having dealings with drugs, his friends would have easily been swept up by the #2 guy, the guy who was in the shadows the whole time and never showed his face, Don Emilio Barzini.


Pretty sure Sollozzo with the Tattaglias, the Tattaglias were being used as fronts for Barzini. He had just as much to gain from the drugs as they did.