Because Vito Rizzuto declined the captain position offered him by the Bonanno Family, Nick Rizzuto Sr. was named captain -- as we all know from reading the various books and articles published since at least 2006, Vito had suggested his father anyway.

The most in-depth details of Vitale's visits to Montreal are found in Daniel Renaud's Vito Rizzuto : la chute du dernier parrain, published in November 2018. Even Humphreys and Lamothe mention in The Sixth Family... that there was more than one visit by New Yorkers to Montreal to deal with the question of who would replace the murdered Gerlando Sciascia. What Humphreys and Lamothe were unaware of before the publication of the 2006 first edition of their book and even after the publication of their 2014 edition is that RCMP officer Lorie McDougall and his colleagues had gathered evidence at the time of Vitale's last visit that Nick Rizzuto Sr. was named captain. For years McDougall had suggested he and Renaud write a book together, but Renaud was reluctant. Renaud changed his mind, and McDougall is credited as a collaborator on the aforementioned November 2018 book.