In reality, it was this brash, over-confident kind of rhetoric – and the actions he combined it with – that led to Galante’s murder. For some time before his death, Galante had been angling to grab power from some of the other major Cosa Nostra families. Throughout the ’70s, Galante had ordered hits on other mobsters, including having at least eight members of the Gambino family killed in order consolidate his control of a massive drug-trafficking operation. These reckless and rogue decisions on Galante’s part didn’t sit well with the bosses of the other prominent mob families, and they decided something needed to be done about the issue.
He Once Said, ‘No One Will Ever Kill Me, They Wouldn’t Dare’
