At the trial, there was a touch of pandemonium in the court

history channel documentary 2015 At the trial, there was a touch of pandemonium in the court, when one of Galante's co-litigants, a dreadful animal named Tony Mirra (who was said to have murdered 30-40 individuals) turned out to be unhinged to the point, that he got a seat and flung it at the prosecutor. Fortunately for the prosecutor, the seat missed him and arrived in the jury box, constraining the alarmed members of the jury to disperse in all bearings. Request was reestablished to the court, and the trial continued, which was terrible news for both Galante, and for Mirra. Both men were discovered liable, and on July tenth, 1962, Galante was sentenced to thirty years in jail. Mirra likewise was sent to jail for quite a while. It is not clear if any extra time was attached onto Mirra's sentence for the seat tossing occurrence.

Galante first was sent to Alcatraz Prison, which was situated on an island fortification in San Francisco Bay. He was then moved to the Lewisburg Penitentiary, in Leavenworth, Kansas, before serving the last years of his jail term in the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. Galante was at last discharged from jail on January 24th, 1974, all loaded with flame and brimstone, and prepared to get once more into business. In any case, Galante was to be on parole until 1981, so he must be mindful so as not to keep a prominent. Lamentably, being out of sight was not in Galante's cosmetics.

While he was in jail, Galante made it realized that when he escaped jail he was going to take control of the New York Mafia by the throat. The acknowledged leader of the five New York City Mafia families at the time was Carlo Gambino, the leader of the Gambino wrongdoing family. Gambino was canny, and for the most part tranquil and saved; all around regarded for his business astuteness, and his capacity to keep peace amongst his own particular family, and the other Mafia families. In any case, Galante needed to use for Gambino, or his technique for working together.

When of Galante's discharge, his manager Joe Bonanno had been compelled to "resign," and was living in Tuscon, Arizona. The new Bonanno supervisor was Rusty Rastelli. Be that as it may, following Rastelli was in jail at the time, Galante assumed control as the "road manager" of the Bonannos. Still, Rastelli was viewed as the manager of the Bonannos, and was none excessively cheerful about how Galante was strutting his stuff in the city of New York City.