“You know the funniest thing about being in prison? Guys pretending they wanna get out. I can’t do any more time, Dougy. So if we get jammed up, we’re holding court on the street.”

-James Coughlin (Jeremy Renner), The Town…

“You like money. You’ve got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart.”

-Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden), The Killing (1956)

On this date in 1979, acting Bonanno crime family boss Carmine “The Cigar” Galante was murdered at a restaurant in Brooklyn. Galante, whose tenure as boss caused friction with the other New York crime families, had engineered the assassination of several Gambino family members in order to take over their narcotics trafficking business.

By the middle of 1979, the bosses of the other…