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...Commission itself what it once was. Two places, vacated by death, have not been filled. Two of the commissioners, Philadelphia's Angelo Bruno and New York's Joe Colombo, command little respect; Detroit's Joe Zerilli rarely attends meetings. A former commissioner, New York's Joe Bonanno, was kicked out in 1964 and his family reassigned when he attempted to kill off some of the other bosses (see box on page...
Thanks to the millions of dollars he invested there, Tucson, Ariz., was most fond of Joseph Bonanno. Joe, in turn, was crazy about Tucson. A resident since 1943, he once declared: "Tucson is my town, a beautiful and wonderful community." Lately, however, the relationship has gone bad-with a bang...
...Bonanno is better known as "Joe Bananas," the gangster overlord of a New York Cosa Nostra "family." A Sicilian-born Mafioso who entered the U.S. illegally in 1924, Bonanno rose to a seat on the twelve-man "Grand Council" of organized crime. Though he has been semiretired as an active hoodlum since 1964, he is now embroiled in what has come to be known as "the Bananas war" -a death struggle between rival gangs that reaches from Joe's Brooklyn turf to Tucson's tree-lined pleasances. Open hostilities in the battle to succeed Joe as head...
...dynamite destroyed a shed at the Grace Ranch, the property of Pete Licavoli, aging chieftain of Detroit's Mafia. On the night of July 22, a bomb thrown onto Joe Bananas' patio blew out part of a wall. All the buildings that have been attacked belong to Bonanno henchmen and acquaintances...
...bombs were set four years ago when Joe Bananas was apparently ordered to retire by his underworld peers. Instead, he has attempted to retain control of his narcotics, numbers and loan-sharking rackets by transforming his Brooklyn-based fief into a hereditary barony and installing his son Salvatore ("Bill") Bonanno, 35. In retaliation, the four other Cosa Nostra families in the New York area, according to the theory, have been letting Joe Bananas know of their displeasure...