Med Rastelli i fængsel overtog [[Carmine Galante]] kontrol over familien og blev uofficiel leder.<ref name="Raab, pp. 203–205">Raab, pp. 203–205</ref> De øvrige familier i New York var bekymrede over Galantes utilslørede forsøg på at overtage narko-markedet.<ref name="Raab, pp. 203–205"/> Overhovedet i [[Genovese-familien]], Frank Tieri bad om de øvrige familiers tilladelse til at likvidere Galante. De øvrige familier gav tilladelsen, ligesom også Joe Bonanno, Rastelli og [[Joseph Massino]] fra Bonanno-familien gav accept.<ref>Sifkakis, Carl (2005). p. 443.</ref><ref name=raab>{{cite book|last=Raab|first=Selwyn|title=Five families : the rise, decline, and resurgence of America's most powerful Mafia empires|year=2006|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|location=New York|isbn=0-312-36181-5|edition=1st St. Martin's Griffin|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_s8f3}}</ref><ref>Raab, pp. 607–608</ref> Den 12. juli 1979 blev Galante likvideret på en restaurant i [[Brooklyn]].<ref name="galante shot">{{cite news|last=McFadden|first=Robert D.|title=Galante and 2 Shot to Death in Brooklyn Restaurant|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1979/07/13/284374132.pdf|access-date=20. januar 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=13. juli 1979}}</ref><ref name=Reppetto>{{cite book|last=Reppetto|first=Thomas A.|title=Bringing down the mob : the war against the American Mafia|year=2007|publisher=Henry Holt|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8050-8659-1|pages=185|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6HLk7E0BeecC&q=galante+murder&pg=PA186}}</ref>
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