Sciascia was simply the go-between for Montreal & NY during Vito's reign at the top. But he was a man of serious stature in Montreal. And I'm explaining why I think Massino made the capo offer, and it has to do with the NY Bonanno's simply being out of touch with Montreal. When Vitale went to Montreal for that meeting with Vito, Vitale asked how many "soldiers" the Montreal have, Vito responded by saying something along the lines of "we're our own little family. There's about 18, 20 of us, and we stay by ourselves and everybody respects everybody else"...When Vitale went back to NY, he reported to Massino, "They have their own little splinter group".

It was assumed by NY that Montreal didn't have that many made guys, they simply didn't know. There's two reasons for this, which reporters have put forward, one is that in Montreal, Vito didn't do the usual "making ceremonies", no one knows how exactly people were made during this period, but one thing is for sure, it wasn't the typical LCN way, especially in regards to NY, no lists were being passed up to NY with associates names on them, so simply, the guys in NY simply didn't know what the hell was going on with Montreal. Another reason is that this all took place in 2001, the FBI had begun to hit the Mafia, the Bonanno's included so hard with indictments, that they just simply didn't have the manpower to keep up with current events in places outside of NY.

Another thing, Vitale says that Montreal used to kick up big, but the last time he personally saw any envelopes coming from Montreal was around '98-'99. They were still kicking up right up until Sciascia got hit, and then it all stopped. With that said, it becomes a bit more clearer why Massino made a capo offer to Vito, he wanted to keep the money coming in, and he simply did not know how powerful and independent the former Montreal Crew had become. And it's not just Massino, but it continued with Sal Montagna, and he had to find out the hard way that NY had no say in what was going on, he couldn't just come in and takeover because nobody in the Montreal Mafia cared that he was a Bonanno boss. They were the Montreal Mafia, and they put that first, they valued their own relationships over that of an outsiders, and NY simply did not know that.