Incidentally, the biography also provided further ammunition for the many who are (justifiably) enormously skeptical of Joe Bonanno's claim to be against drugs. It was mentioned that soon after Bill and Rosalie's wedding, Joe paid a visit to Sicily. According to the later testimony of a Sicilian mafioso, one of the reasons for the visit was to arrange narcotics shipments.
That's exactly what his trip to Sicily was for. One of Bonanno's top guys - Carmine Galante - was huge in the drug trade. As was his family in general. Bonanno against drugs? Yeah, right.
