Originally Posted By: LittleMan
Originally Posted By: Snakes
Yeah, I think it wasn't any more complicated than Rusty asking the Commission permission to off Galante and the Commission approving, ostensibly because Rastelli was someone the other families could better work with as boss.


I admit the sharing of money between the 5 families is confusing. But there was a sharing of profits with the concrete club. And the windows scam. And the gasoline tax scam. So why not drugs?



This is an excellent example of NOT sharing profits actually. The Bonanno Family was not involved with the concrete club. They were not involved with the window scam. They did not receive shared profits from these rackets. Same thing with the drugs. If you are not in on it, don´t expect to receive profits from it. The theory of Galante being killed because he did not want to share his drug profits with other bosses is without merit. The theory holds no water.

The heroin business that the group, I mentioned above, was involved with skyrocked AFTER the Galante killing. It looks to me that Galante had actually hindered his guys, at least to some extent, from getting into drugs. At the time of his murder, Galante was out on parole. The last few years in his life, he was basically in and out of jail for violations of his parole restrictions. He was constantly being watched by LE who followed his every move. Why was he in and out of jail? For consorting with known criminals and for not having reported to his parole officer regulary as he was supposed to when released from prison in 1974. During these kind of circumstances, do you guys really think he had the nerves of getting back into the heroin business, a crime that would put his ass behind bars for another ten years just for uttering the letter "H"? I don´t think so. If heroin was the cause of Galante´s murder, it was because he partly held his guys back.

I believe Galante was killed simply because of a power struggle with Rastelli, the official boss at the time. Galante, the acting boss, ran the Family as it pleased him, which pissed Rastelli off. Removing Galante pleased the zips in a great way.


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