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He has a meeting with Vito Corleone and offers to make the Mafia chieftain his partner in a heroin trafficking operation in return for money and protection. Vito's son and heir apparent Sonny expresses interest in the deal, however, and Sollozzo thinks he would be easier to control if Vito was eliminated.