Bonanno disappeared from 1964 to 1966, triggering an intra-family war colloquially referred to as the 'Banana War' that lasted until 1968, when Bonanno retired to Arizona.īetween 19, the family was infiltrated by FBI agent Joseph Pistone, who went undercover using the alias Donnie Brasco. However, in the early 1960s, Bonanno attempted to overthrow several leaders of the Commission, but failed. Under the leadership of Bonanno between the 1930s and 1960s, the family was one of the most powerful in the country. Joseph Bonanno was awarded most of Maranzano's operations when Charles 'Lucky' Luciano oversaw the creation of the Commission to divide up criminal enterprises in New York City among the Five Families. The family was known as the Maranzano crime family until its founder Salvatore Maranzano was murdered in 1931.

The Bonanno crime family (pronounced ) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the ' Five Families' that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, and in the United States, as part of the criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia. Various gangs in New York City, including their allies Racketeering, loansharking, money laundering, murder, drug trafficking, extortion and illegal gambling Italians as ' made men' and other ethnicities as associatesġ00–110 made members and 500 associates (2017) Primarily New York City, with additional territory in New Jersey, South Florida, Arizona, Las Vegas, and Northern California, Greater Montreal, Quebec Mugshot of Joseph 'Joe Bananas' Bonanno, who was boss from 1931 to 1968

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