It began with Lilo Galante already in the 1950s. He was sent to Montreal to organize gambling but ended up organizing heroin shipments instead (in addition to the gambling). For some reason, Montreal and its ports were suited for it, probably because Lilo and the ones who ended up under him had that port (or portions of it) under control. Did he do this on the sneak? I believe so. Anybody who is familiar with A man of honor and who has studied it as carefully as I have, can easily see that Joe Bonanno was clearly against drug dealing. The problem is that his Family was not. Now, you may ask yourself why didn´t Bonanno punish the members who were involved with the drug trade for breaking his rules? Well, then you need to ask yourself also, what does a boss do when finding out half of his Family is dealing in drugs?