I don't see what the Bonannos could have done that Siegel, Roselli, Cohen, and later Accardo, Spilotro, etc hadn't already tried. There's a reason they all planted their flags in Vegas.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
