Originally Posted By: baldo
According to Pistone, Galante was killed because he wasn't considered a legitimate boss which was holding back the zips from dealing more heroin. In order to continue their heroin pipeline, they had to side with the boss the commission recognized (Rastelli). See page 143:

http://books.google.com/books?id=fhBwVP1...%20&f=false

This is according to Pistone, so take it as you will. Does give credence to Hairy's theory, however.


That doesn't give credence to his theory at all. He claimed Galante prevented the zips from dealing because he was afraid of going back to prison. Pistone is saying the other families were preventing the zips because they didn't recognize Galante as boss.

The truth is we don't know why he was killed but the commission members were convicted of the murder