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Eventually, Colombo engineered a truce between the warring Mafia factions. At the same time he added to his power in another way. Two of the Mafia bosses, Joe Bonanno and Joe Magliocco, decided to let a contract for the extinction of three of their rivals: Carlo Gambino and Thomas Lucchese of New York City, and Slefano Magaddino of Buffalo. Who should be picked for the job but enterprising...
Colombo? In this case, however, Joe thought the victims would be worth more to him than the contract. So he tipped them off. Bonanno made his hasty, celebrated disappearance and the "Bananas War" got under way. Some seven mobsters were slain, but once again Colombo escaped with profit...
...arrested at least 12 times during this period and had three convictions on gambling charges. In 1964, authorities allege, Colombo ascended to leadership of Joseph Profaci's Mafia family in Brooklyn after the "Banana War" power struggle between the Profaci family and the Joseph ("Joe Bananas") Bonanno family. In 1966, Colombo served 30 days for contempt after he refused to answer questions put to him by a grand jury. In addition to his perjury for lying to a state agency in applying for a real estate license, Colombo also faces a trial on charges of income tax evasion...
...Bonanno's heart condition keeps him close to Tucson-the fact that a grand jury in New York wants him for questioning may also be persuasive-but he is not really at home. Newspapers ride him. Substantial gifts to the Roman Catholic Church and philanthropies have somehow failed to make people forget about his background...
...Bonanno often walks back and forth for hours, deep in thought. Hill says that he has seen him touch the tips of his fingers together, point them at the sky and moan: "I am in the world for 64 years, and only in the last five years have these things happened to me!" Other times he will be more philosophical: "I know it's my fault. It was impossible for me to foresee these things." He has only three ambitions now. One is to move closer to his children in Palo Alto, Calif. The second is to visit once...