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Galante began gunning for the top spot soon after becoming head of the Mafia family once run by Joseph ("Joe Bananas") Bonanno, who now lives in Tucson, Ariz. Galante was immediately challenged by Aniello Dellacroce (translation: Little Lamb of the Cross), who is one of the Mob's most feared executioners and longtime second in command to Carlo Gambino. The wily Dellacroce, 63, paid his respects to Gambino's memory by letting the late capo's brother-in-law, Paul Castellano, remain titular head of the family, while Dellacroce was elevated to the Mafia's ruling...
...slain. Then federal authorities revoked Galante's parole last spring from an earlier 15-year narcotics sentence on the unassailable grounds that he had been "associating with known criminals." At Dellacroce's urging, the Mafia commission in September not only decreed that Galante no longer headed the Bonanno family but let out a contract on his life...
...Joseph Bonanno, denying that he is the new Godfather: "I believe in the law. I'll face the music as best I know how, and I'll die with my boots...
After being paroled in 1974, Galante took over control of the Mafia family once run by Joseph ("Joe Bananas") Bonanno, who retired to Tucson, Ariz., in 1964. At first, Interim Boss Philip Rastelli was unwilling to step aside. Gunmen killed his stepson, James Fernandes, on a Brooklyn street. Rastelli...
...remote candidate to become New York's crime czar is Galante's former boss, Joseph Bonanno. His age (71) works against his ambitions. So did the murder in February of Frank ("Bomp") Bompensiero, who was Bonanno's chief ally on the West Coast?and an FBI informer. Bomp was one of the 20 people who have been executed over the past two years by professional hit men armed with silencer-equipped .22-cal. pistols (TIME, April...