Instead of going back and forth like school yard children, how about we learn from each other? Commencing now?

Here's a nice piece I found surfing the net today.

Galante's rise of power was put on hold in 1959 when he was sentenced to 20 years for drug offenses during an FBI bust. Carmine was placed in a high level security prison amongst the meanest en toughest criminals of the country but even behind bars Galante showed authority. It didn't take long for everybody to knew who he was and were carefull when crossing him. On one account a whole line of inmates was gathered near the phone to have a weekly call. Galante entered the room but instead of getting in line he walked straight over to the phone and simply ordered "Give me the phone", without hesitation or retaliation by others, he got it. Also, while Galante was serving his sentence, the prison psychiatrists had diagnosed him with psychopathic personality disorder.

When Joseph Bonanno left for Arizona in 1969, the family was in hands of John Sciacca and then Natale Evola. When Evola died of cancer in 1973, Phillip Rastelli was next in line to become boss. However, he was allready arrested and jailed 2 years later. Galante in the meanwhile was released on parole in 1974 and took over the Bonanno family while Rastelli was behind bars. Altough Galante had been jailed for many years he had managed to maintain much of his control in the drug business. From the 60's on the Bonanno's and other families bought all sorts of enterprises such as bakeries and pizzeria's which would operate as fronts to distribute heroin.

Word on the street of Galante's release from prison soon reached the streets and many would talk about it. This proves how notorious Galante was. His sellfishness and violent reputation could easily turn hostile to other families. Galante also started to surround himself with imported Sicilian mobsters, men from whom he believed had absolute loyalty towards their boss and still honored the old Sicilian manners. Amongst those men were Castellammare natives Baldo Amato and Cesare Bonventre, a relative of former underboss John Bonventre. Both men were appointed by Galante as his bodyguards. As second in command he appointed Salvatore Catalano, who formed a very important link between the American and Sicilian Mafia. The other members in the Bonanno Family however disliked the fact Galante was bringing in the Sicilians, who weren't quit the social and friendly types, but mainly hanged around with eachother and formed a private gang.

In 1977 Galante was arrested again and was briefly jailed for violating his parole. By this time Galante was beginning to put himself in a dangerous position because of his greed and arrogance against Phillip Rastelli, who was in fact still officialy in charge of the family. It was even said that during his brief stay in prison he received death threats and for his own security was transfered to a federal prison in San Diego before being released in March.

Source: http://www.lacndb.com/Info.php?name=Carmine%20Galante