Riina was into heroin trafficking, once he killed everyone that previously controlled it , he took over with his own refinery and his own people.After Bontade was killed ,one of his best man Francesco Marino Mannoia started working for Corleonesi.
With all the money that the Palermo families had, how come they couldn’t acquire the needed resources to win the war against Riina and the Corleonesi? I’m not exactly positive that Badalementi was in the best place because he was forced to leave and he and his son reportedly could not pay the million dollar bail money required to get them out of jail. But Bontade was a Freemason and he has tremendous wealth. Maybe even the richest man in the mafia at the time.
