Originally Posted By: furio_from_naples
What I dont understand is the commission use gigante for kill mobster that sell heroin ?
For me this is strange because the next year that the Consalvo Bros died Matthew Madonna get 30 y for selling heroin.
So they killed only the mobster that fear could flip ?
And seems strange that nobody in genovese family was selling drugs before and during gigante reign.


The real rule was don't deal unless you have the permission from the boss. The Cherry Hill Gambinos and Patsy Conte were big into drugs and everyone knew it. Castellano had no problem with it. Barney Bellomo was caught up in that drug case with Ralph Tutino. He still became street boss a few years later. Amuso and Casso were both known drug dealers and still got promoted.