I always wondered about that whole sequence though.
Trafacante accepted the boat trip from Sonny Black, and we heard him saying "it's okay but you have to show some respect down here." It was like Trafacante was giving him permission to operate something on his territory.
Then we see Trafacante's cop goons breaking up the club and more importantly taking ALL the money (which we assume went to Trafacante with a cut for the cops.)
Thing is...why not nip Lefty and Sonny Black's FLA operation in the bud from the get go?
Why let him set up then destroy him?
Then of course we saw Trafacante talking to Sonny Red on the phone showing they had colluded with embarrassing Black and Lefty and destroying their operation.
The only conclusion is that Sonny Black walked into a trap set by Sonny Red in order to bring down his errant crew, which we know Sonny Red did not like because of the way his crew mocked Black's when they were in the same club by mocking their clothing and laughing them out of the place?
Was it just a way to get rid of Sonny Black? After all, Sonny was tight with Rusty in prison and was still "kicking up" to Rusty's operation. So he wasn't entirely useless--he was earning....
Anywho.....
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