![]() ![]() Galante’s bodyguards Bonaventre and Amato were noticeably absent when two other men entered Joe and Mary’s Italian Restaurant on Knickerbocker Ave in NYC and murdered him. The Zips were part of a conspiracy to kill Carmine Galante. He and these two men were often seen together in long conversations and often used a payphone in that area. Another Sicilian named Salvatore Catalano showed up and opened a bakery. In Brooklyn, Bonavatre and Amto started a high stakes baccarat game at the Café Viale on Knickerbocker Street. More Sicilians or “Zips” emigrated to the United States and started pizzerias, restaurants, and bakeries in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, and Illinois. Carmine Galante used two of them, Cesare Bonaventre and Baldassare “Baldo” Amato as his bodyguards. The local mafia members derisively nicknamed them Zips. Carmine Galante had graduated to be the Bonanno Family boss and he imported several Sicilians to work directly for him. The French Connection becomes the Pizza ConnectionĪfter the French Connection heroin pipeline dried up, the Sicilians created clandestine labs in Sicily and imported the raw product from Afganistan, Pakistan and other places in the Middle East. During the 1960s, the Bonanno family and the Gambinos, as well as the Lucchese family, worked with Sicilians to bring heroin into the US via what became known as the French Connection. Carmine Galante was at the original 1957 meeting in Sicily with Joe Bonanno, Lucky Luciano and members of the Sicilian mafia, among who were Gaetano Badalamenti and Tomasso Buscetta. Carmine Galante, the old Bonanno Consigliore completes a long prison sentence and returns to New York. The Commission appoints Phil “Rusty”Rastelli the new boss of the Bonano crime family. In 1972, the Bonanno War is over, Joe and Bill Bonanno are out in Arizona.
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