I think Carmine got killed because basically since the banana's war the bonnano's had been splintered, so they oked the hit on carmine to consolidate that family and probably because rusty was willing to cut the other families in on a bigger piece of the bonnano drug trade than carmine would have been.
Carmine wanted to keep whatever the bonnano's had going to himself, rusty sold some of it off for commission approval to be boss. He likely had massino make a deal with zips and carmine ends up on the floor of the restuarant patio. I don't know, just a theory that would seem consistant with operations in that world
I don´t understand your argument. Why would Galante, a member of the Bonanno Family, be obligated to share profits with other bosses? The ones involved with the importation and selling of heroin were caught by LE later in the 1980s. All of them were so called zips, either made members of/associates of the Bonanno Family or associates of the Gambino Family. Most of them had ties to Sicilian Mafia clans. To my knowledge, this group did not share the drug profits with other NY bosses. Not even after the Galante killing. Persico, Corallo, Castellano and Gigante did not receive drug profits from this group.
Also interesting to see how the murder of the conzsalvo brothers that were in the gambino family, and the gambino's own zip portion (the cherry hill gambino's were basically zips, right?) played into the galante hit. Everyone agrees that Carmine was never boss, just a capo; but I don't know who was boss, who was answering to who and how each families drug rackets played into it; but when things happen in the volcano (as bonnano put it), the gambino's and genovese's usually had a hand in it.
Yes, the Cherry Hill Gambinos were all zips and they played a huge part in the heroin ring later broken up by LE. And just for the record, I doubt there was a link between Galante and the murder of the Consalvo brothers.
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