Tony was and able to make the deal with Sosa. Frank mainly dealt with marijuana and had weak connections to cocaine which is evident with the Sun Ray Hotel and Colombians, had legitimate business to launder the drug money. He was indeed lower than the Diaz brothers and Gomez who were big drug dealers, but Tony toppled them with his business dealings with Sosa.

"I have this Nightmare. I'm on 5th avenue watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary and nine thousand cops march happily over my body." Chief Sidney Green