upon santora's release in 1992, he created a partnership with newly promoted bonanno acting consigliere, anthony rabito, in extortion, loansharking, illegal gambling, drug trafficking and money laundering operations in brooklyn, queens and the bronx, throughout the mid 1990s. santora, rabito and massino's brother-in-law, salvatore "good looking sal" vitale, became close with massino and they expanded their operations to become the top earners in the bonanno crime family toward the late 1990s. joseph massino and the bonanno family were brought back into the five families commission again, after being expelled because of the donnie brasco fiasco.