I havent read Excellent Cadavers in years, but I think Bontade and Inzerillo were supplying everyone from Conte, to the Cherry Hill Binos, to the Rizzutos, to Catalano and the Bonannos. So everybody was getting it from Palermo.

The Pizza Connection was a huge trial, the biggest federal trial in US history at the time, but didnt catch everyone. It only focused on the Catalano faction. So amazingly the real conspiracy couldve been several times bigger.

So, I’m sure everyone in Sicily knew how much the Palermo bosses were making. And the Corleonese wanted to take control from them and have it for themselves.

But Riina fucked it all up by killing way too many people... too many generations of top quality gangsters were wiped out. And killed too many civilians, judges, politicians, etc that the Italian state was forced to intervene. Shit was too public and brought way too much heat. Just like Pablo Escobar: Once you go to war against the state you’re basically begging for the military to get involved.

The Sicilian mafia before Riina had almost total freedom to operate... the Italian state was so corrupt they essentially left them alone.. i.e. “There is no mafia!”. But Riina forced them to clamp down and now wiseguys cant grab a cup of coffee in Italy without catching an indictment. And that 41-bis law is hardcore. That’s why so many have gone to Canada.