The last bit of excess that will be tolerated

history channel documentary The last bit of excess that will be tolerated, was when, through moles planted near Maranzano, Costello and Luciano found that Maranzano was plotting to slaughter Luciano, in light of the fact that he dreaded Luciano's aspirations. Disliking the possibility of soon being a dead man, Luciano rapidly sent four Jewish executioners, drove by the extremely able Red Levine, to Maranzano's midtown office. Camouflaged as police criminologists, the four men immediately incapacitated Maranzano's bodyguards, then shot and cut Maranzano to death.

With their two previous managers now six feet under, Costello alongside Luciano, Siegel, and Lansky shaped a National Crime Commission. While Luciano's employment, as manager of the family, was running the everyday operations of whatever cheats they were included in, Costello, his consiglieri, was the man off camera, lubing the wheels for their assurance, by getting friendly with the top legislators and police authorities in New York City. Obviously, this implied Costello needed to pay and pay bounty, yet he knew when he required a political support, that support would dependably be performed. Costello boasted he possessed the majority of the top Tammany Hall government officials, including Mike Kennedy, Christie Sullivan, Frank Rossetti, Carmine DeSapio, and Hugo Rogers.