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Joe Bonanno, who was the mobster who inspired the movie "The Godfather"

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Joe Bonanno, who was the mobster who inspired the movie "The
Joe Bonanno

20 years ago, he recounted his life with satisfaction: "Others are no longer like that so I can tell my life and theirs." Others whether friends or foes made New York and America tremble. Frank Costello, Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia, John Gambino, Joe Gallo, Lucky Luciano were in eternal struggle for the throne of the "Godfather of Godfathers".

Bonanno (known to everyone as Joe Bananas), died at the age of 97. He almost ruled Cosa Nostra, but when the mafia peace fell apart he decided to leave New York and immigrate to Arizona. Since 1981 he lived alone in a big house. Dolls and memories in every corner. The woman had left him for some time.

As an archivist that he was, he preserved the documents of life: "It is not the life that the newspapers show, or Gay Talese's book 'Honor the Father'." Nor does it resemble the theater invented by Mario Puzo. Even the movie with Marlon Brando I never wanted to see. I have faced life with the respect that my name has, and the pride of being part of the most reliable friends".

Behind the window is the hot desert. Hidden under the dust, the police guards have never stopped spying. Bonanno used to say with a laugh: "I even destroy my nephew Joseph's wishes." To make them angry. They try to understand that maybe under an innocent hug hidden coded messages". Giuseppe Bonanno left for Brooklyn in 1922, at a time when Prefect Mori was preparing the end of the 'honorable society'. Giuseppe was not the first mobster in his family. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were honorable men and outlaws.

Joseph Bonanno was handsome, elegant, soft-spoken. Studied in Castellammare. He often quoted Machiavelli. "New York of the 50s seemed to me like I was sitting on a volcano." 5 Italian-American families had control over everything. This is where the war began. 10 bloody years. In October 1964, a trap was organized for him. He got out of a cab on Park Avenue. It was raining, and two people shoot him in the arms. Bonano understands, he doesn't protest.

For 19 months the FBI, Interpol, CIA and the Italian and French secret services try to understand if he is alive or dead. Only Billy, his son, finds out that he is okay. There is an agreement between them. They were supposed to meet every third Tuesday, at 8 p.m., in a phone booth on Long Island. After a year, the phone rings and a voice that Billy doesn't recognize says: "He'll be back." It returns to May 17, 1966 at a time when the war between the clans had destroyed the Bonanno empire.

A gentleman in a hat and baggy black robes walked into room 318 of the Foley Square State Courthouse and said, “My name is Joseph Bonanno. I heard that you wanted to interrogate me". They do this for weeks. Joe does not answer to the Fifth Amendment. He is wearing the same jacket, the same shirt and everything else that he was wearing when he was sent away. Where? When they asked him this question, he laughed saying: "Who needs it now?". At the age of 97, he left with many mysteries. No capoband resembles him to this day. The whole underworld, in a slightly romantic way, died with him.

Life

Joseph Bonanno, born Giuseppe Bonanno, and alias Joe Banananas (January 18, 1905 – May 12, 2002), was an Italian-American criminal associated with the American Cosa Nostra. He was born in Castellammare, a province of Trapani in Italy. Bonanno's father, Salvatore, played a part in the local mafia organization and in 1908 moved with his family to escape a sentence, only to return to Sicily in 1911 due to the outbreak of of a feud in Castellammare with Buccellato's rival gang, which ends in 1913 when Salvatore Bonanno kills capo Felice Buccellato. In 1915, Bonanno became an orphan after his father Salvatore died of a heart attack, and after 5 years he lost his mother as well. During this time he attended the Naval Institute of Palermo for several months.

In 1924, Bonanno was framed as an anti-fascist along with his cousin Pietro Magaddino, and to put this process behind him, he moved clandestinely first to Cuba, then to Florida, and finally to Brooklyn. Here (in Brooklyn), he is arrested for illegal possession of a weapon but is released because the charges against him are dropped. He joins some compatriots led by the mobster Salvatore Maranzano, who caused the "Castellammarese War" against Joe Masseria, capo of the Morello Family. Joe Bonanno becomes the deputy capo of the Maranzanos.

Emerging victorious from the 1931 conflict, Maranzano is nominated "Capo dei Capi" (Capo of the Capos), but is killed by order of Lucky Luciano. Then Bonanno took command and became a colleague with Luciano, becoming part of the "Commission" (the organization that led Cosa Nostra). After taking control of the Family, Bonanno chooses his cousin Frank Garofalo as his deputy, and his friend and colleague John Tartamella as an adviser.

Joe Bonanno, who was the mobster who inspired the movie "The

After controlling the usury and underground lotteries in Brooklyn, he also took control of restaurants and money-laundering businesses. In 1931 he married Fay Labruzo, the sister of another mafia capo, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. He was granted American citizenship in 1945. In 1952, Bonanno chose new advisor Carmine Galante, in Montreal, Canada, for the organization of drug trafficking, in collaboration with the Calabrian Vic Cotroni. In 1956, the Bonanno's first child, Salvatore, marries Rosalie Profaci, the niece of Joe Profaci, the capo of the Family, which leads to the strengthening of the alliance between the two Families.

In 1957 Bonanno made a trip to Sicily, accompanied by Carmine Gelante, and from October 12-16, he attended several meetings held at the Grand Hotel des Palmes in Palermo, with John Bonventre and Frank Garofalo. , exponents of his Family, and other American mobsters (Lucky Luciano, Santo Sorge, Vito Vitale and John di Bella, exponents of the Genovese Family in New York).

At the meeting there were other Sicilians such as Gaspare Magaddino, Cesare Manzella and Giuseppe Genco Russo. Investigators suspected that their meeting was related to drug trafficking. The police operation that took place in Cuba in 1956-1957 stopped Sicilian and American mobsters from processing heroin. According to the justice associate Tomasso Buscetta, during Bonanno's meetings it was discussed about the creation of the "Commission" of Sicilian and American mafiosi, where order had to be put in place.

Shortly after, Bonanno attended a meeting in New York, together with all the Mafia Families of America, but the meeting was discovered by the local police, who arrested many participants, including Bonanno, but was later released for lack of evidence. . After Joe Profaci's death in 1962, Deputy Capo Joseph Magliocco took command of his Family and was introduced to Bonanno as his successor. Bonanno and Magliocco considered dangerous to them, Carlo Gambino and Gaetano "Tommy" Lucchese, part of other mafia families, because they were collaborators with some of Magliocco's enemies.

They hired mobster Joseph Colombo to kill them. Colombo preferred to inform Gambino and Luchessen by having Bonanno and Magliocco appear before the "Commission". Bonanno was not introduced and Magliocco was forced to leave all the power of his family to Joseph Colombo.

Bonanno then fabricated an event, leading others to believe they had killed him. But in reality he had left the United States and had gone to Tunisia as a refugee. At the same time Gaspar di Gregorio takes control of the Bonanno family, supported by Gambino, Luchesse and other members of the "Commission". But there he was confronted by Bonanno's first son, Salvatore, who demanded the return of the old capo. In 1966 Bonanno surrendered to the authorities, and after a heart attack in 1968 he preferred to retire from his mob life with his son, Salvatore, at his home in Arizona. In 1980 Bonanno was arrested for obstruction of justice, and sentenced to 5 years in prison, but served 8 months due to health problems.

In 1983, he tried to rebuild his image by publishing the autobiography "A Man of Honor", written by one of his associates. This prompted the court to question him about some facts written in the book. Bonanno refused to appear, and was sentenced to 14 months in prison. He died at his home on May 12, 2002, aged 97.


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