@MightyDR
I might be wrong, but I think Fat Tony was talking about a Bonanno drug crew.....
He was saying Rastelli could be boss, but their family was TOO caught up in drugs to be on the Commision or near any of the other bosses......
I think he said something like, " they're junk guys, they got a crew with 80 guys".... something like that... I'm not sure if he said 80 times.....
It's one of the main reasons I've always felt the Bonnanos were the trusted NY distributors of Sicilian heroin...... Whereas all the other American wiseguys were threatened with " Deal and Die"...
I'm sure he said 80 times, but totally agree about the Bonannos and drugs. I'm pretty sure Vincent Cafaro said something along the lines of all he knew about the Bonannos was that they were all into drugs. Salerno said something like that on another wiretap.
Which does make it odd that Gigante was backing Sonny Red, a known trafficker, to be boss.
