@Giacomo
I agree totally. Didn't realize Seattle was on the radar at all. I know Colacurcio had some strip joints and a little money on the street but who back east was he connected to if any?
Of course Castellano would believe the "plot", it definitely served the originally brooklyn based Big Paul to have Joe out of the way especially that they both were heavy in the food industry. I think Castellano believed anything Don Carlo said. I wonder what Joe thought of Castellano, Fat Tony and Tony Ducks?
Alot of people don't like to give him credit but in a 30yr period, Bonanno was as powerful as any Boss there ever was in my opinion, his blood lineage and connections throught the country made it so. I could definitely see why he was so threatening to other bosses. One man shouldn't have that much power across the country.
Someone once said that Bonanno was "planting flags all over the world" (i.e., enroaching on other mob families' turf), but I don't know who. Some sources say it was Magaddino, who thought his cousin was trying to take over Toronto, given the fact that Bonanno already had a crew in Montreal (Vic Cotroni), while others state it was Giancana who said it because Arizona was near Las Vegas (the Outfit had numerous interests in Nevada, and Bonanno had crews based in San Jose and Arizona). Still others point to Santo Trafficante.
