Also, you gotta keep reading, they address the whole divided loyalty thing in the book..

Also Alfa, from what I can gather, it took so long to hit Galante cause they needed permission from Sicily, that they weren't about to give if it upset their narcotics network.


You gotta understand, like when In the book, it says Sonny Red took a consignment and didn't feel obligated to pay. See he thought that cause he felt he outranked the Sicilians over here, and he was right,he did. But what he didn't get was that when it came to narcotics, that didn't count for shit. If it were a matter of screwing one mobster, or a small group of guys, that's one thing. But half of Palermo might have been invested in these drug shipments. To think of this as AMERICAN MAFIA PROPERTY is a fatal miscalculation of the situation.
Also, I think in D'Arcos book he said they used TWENTY-SEVEN blockers to make sure the shooters got away. And in the follow up three capo murders, they took the extraordinary step of subcontracting the burial work to a crew in another family (Gottis crew), so a lot of guys involved isn't exactly unheard of.

The thing about the merging of the families, you are preaching to the choir my man. Look at the Partnership/Partinicos, the Bonnano/Castallamarese, the Gambino/Palermo families, same god damn structure, but no one sees it it seems. And today you have the Gambinos trying to duplicate this with Calabrese gangsters. And the common denominator is narcotics. It's hard to see if you follow the MAFIA, but if you follow the narcotics industry, you start to see repeating patterns, repeating structures, regardless of ethnicity or whatever.