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...boss JOSEPH MASSINO, head of the Bonanno crime family and known as the Last Don, reportedly betrayed a subordinate and fed evidence to the FBI. According to court papers, federal investigators, with help from "a high-ranking member" of the family--presumed to be Massino--secretly tape-recorded Vincent Basciano, the family's acting boss, as he plotted the murder, never accomplished, of a federal prosecutor. Massino is the first boss of a New York family to cooperate with the FBI. The last don, indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Family Values | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

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