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[GTA - Vice City] Why was Sonny so patient with Tommy about the "god damn" money when he knew Tommy got it all back?

So, in GTA Vice City Sonny sended Tommy for a drug deal. Both things got lost, the drugs and the "god damn" money. But when Sonny heard Tommy killed >!Diaz!< shoudn't he count two and two together to know Tommy already got "his" money back and the drugs. He refered to >!Diaz!< as a drug baron after all. So why all the patience? Why didn't he confront Tommy right after he found out?
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Sonny assumed that Tommy was still loyal to him, and that Tommy would repay the money owed as well as give him a cut of his profits in Vice City.  He assumed that Tommy was loyal because Tommy had refused to divulge any information on Sonny's Forelli crime family when he was arrested.  

Tommy was initially sent to prison for killing eleven men.  However, Sonny pulled some strings and got Tommy's sentence reduced.  It was expected that this would be enough to permanently ensure Tommy's loyalty to Sonny and to the Forelli family.  And when Tommy killed Diaz and started really expanding his operations in Vice City, Sonny waited patiently for Tommy to do the right thing and cut him in, because *of course* Tommy would do right by the Forelli family, right?  

And then when Tommy failed to do so, Sonny decided to send some of his men down to Vice City to *remind* Tommy of his duties to the family and *encourage* him to fulfill them.  Except Tommy killed those men too.  So Sonny was forced to head down to Vice City personally to deal with the upstart Tommy Vercetti... and then Tommy killed him as well.  

So why was Sonny so patient with Tommy?  Why didn't he confront Tommy as soon as Tommy had taken over Diaz's operation?  It's because he assumed that Tommy, who had previously shown great loyalty to the Forelli family by not snitching in prison, would continue to be loyal and would hand over a cut of his profits.  It was only after Tommy emphatically did not do so that Sonny decided to take matters into his own hands.