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Called "The Big Barbecue" by the gangsters who attended, Apalachin was unusual in that it was a special meeting held to address just one order of business -- the drug trade. Several of the New York City bosses -- including Carmine Galante and Joe Bonanno -- had taken an interest in the lucrative new business. Bonanno and his cousin Magaddino had set up a network to import heroin and smuggle it into the United States by way of Montreal and Niagara Falls, Canada, while Galante enlisted the aid of Tampa kingpin Santos Trafficante to bring drugs in from Cuba.

They were making a ton of money, a fact that had not gone unnoticed by men such as Nick Civella and Joe Filardo of Kansas City, who wanted in on the action. Also feeling aggrieved was the Rochester Mafia faction, for decades jealous rivals of the Buffalo boys, who Magaddino had cut out completely. They were represented at Apalachin by the Valenti brothers, Costenze and Frank, a vicious psychopath with a record that included arrests for everything from forgery and counterfeiting to forcible rape and murder