Bruno sealed his fate once the Cherry Gambino's were encroaching on his territory with drugs without any retaliation.
That was it for Bruno..
The Cherry Hill Gambinos definitely didn't enroach on Bruno's territory in Pa and NJ without his permission. He allowed them to operate there and made money, directly or otherwise, from their presence. Members of Bruno's family were buying heroin from the Sicilians and selling it on to non-mob distributors. Bruno didn't allow his brugad to enter the drug trade in an organised fashion but he didn't prohibit his underlings from working with the Cherry Hill Gambinos - he would actually lend these heroin traffickers money. It very well may have been the straw that broke the camel's back for Caponigro (who knew he could be making two or three times as much in heroin without Bruno's restrictions), but the Zips definitely weren't ENROACHING in Bruno's territory and there was nothing to retaliate for.
