Word: bonanno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mafia memoirs of Joe Bonanno are seized...
They usually don't sing in the Cosa Nostra, so who would expect an entire opêra bouffe-from one of the godfathers no less? That's pretty much what Arizona agents orchestrated at the modest ranch house of Joseph ("Joe Bananas") Bonanno, 74, in Tucson. For three years and more, undercover snoopers sniffed Bonanno's garbage and found enough evidence to obtain an indictment against Bonanno last week for conspiracy to obstruct justice. In a basement closet they also discovered a 250-page life story, detailing Bonanno's rise to leadership...
...Mafia dons, where Carlo Gambino counseled that the drug trade was bringing too much heat. A number of old-line families moved out of the business then and have stayed out. But there is so much money involved, police report, that four families ? the old Lucchese, Colombo, Bonanno and Genovese clans ? are starting to move in after all. One group of Italians was discussing the cocaine trade in the back room of a Bronx restaurant not long ago when they were visited by a pair of Colombians, one of whom had a machine gun. The gun jammed...
...year and a half after lengthy investigations by three dozen of the country's best investigative reporters, Arizona officials have still failed to catch many of the gangsters and corrupt lawyers exposed in the IRE series. Joseph C. Bonanno, Sr., identified by the press as a top-ranking Mafia boss who specializes in narcotics, is a free man in Tucson, despite several arrests for offenses including grand larceny and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Dozens of smaller-time criminals continue to elude conviction in Arizona, despite coverage of their activities in the local and national media...
...unsettled charges against him. Instead, Castro has received an appointment as U.S. ambassador to Argentina, providing welcome respite from the state's temporary political heat. U.S. District Judge Walter E. Craig, exposed by the IRE team for mysteriously reversing a jury's murder conspiracy conviction of reputed mobster Joe Bonanno's son amid rumors of influence-peddling by the Bonanno family, has received no disciplinary action of any kind. Judge Craig's sudden reversal of Bonanno's conviction aroused suspicions because it occurred fully a month after the guilty verdict was handed down, and because the judge failed to poll...