Bonanno crime family

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 62. Chapters: Joseph Bonanno, Salvatore Maranzano, Joseph Massino, Nicholas Santora, Dominic Napolitano, Robert Perrino, Joseph D. Pistone, Benjamin Ruggiero, Anthony Mirra, Frank Lino, Donnie Brasco, Thomas Pitera, Costabile Farace, Salvatore Bonanno, Al Indelicato, Paul Sciacca, Salvatore Vitale, Anthony Indelicato, Carmine Galante, Cesare Bonventre, Rizzuto crime family, Dominick Trinchera, Richard Cantarella, Anthony Spero, Anthony Graziano, Philip Rastelli, Louis Attanasio, Paolo LiCastri, Patrick DeFilippo, Frank Coppa, Salvatore Montagna, Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia, Michael Sabella, Antonio Tomasulo, Alfred Embarrato, Raymond Wean, Gerlando Sciascia, James Episcopia, Nicholas Marangello, Gaspar DiGregorio, Richard Mazzeo, Paolo Violi, Giovanni Bonventre, John Morales, John Cersani, Perry Criscitelli, John Zancocchio, Joseph D'Amico, Rosario Parrino, Natale Evola, Duane Leisenheimer, Joseph Cammarano, Anthony Vitale, Michael Zaffarano, The Way of the Wiseguy, Vito Bonventre, Joseph Puma, Vincent Asaro, John Nobile, Leo D'Angelo, The Motion Lounge. Excerpt: The Bonanno crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). Founded and named after Joseph Bonanno, the Bonanno family was the first of the New York families to be kicked off the Commission (a council of the bosses that helps to maintain order in the Mafia), due to allegations that the family was actively dealing heroin and the inner family fighting for control of the leadership. Later, the family faced shaky leadership, with acting boss Carmine Galante being murdered in 1979 on the order of imprisoned boss Philip Rastelli, as well as two major setbacks: in 1981, they learned that an FBI agent calling himself Donnie Brasco had infiltrated their ranks; an in 2004, boss Joseph Massino, who previously brought the family back to respectable stature among the families and back on the Commission, became the first-ever Mafia boss in history to become an FBI informant. The origins of the Bonanno crime family can be traced back to the early 1880s in the town of Castellammare del Golfo located in the Province of Trapani, Sicily. During the 1900s, top members of the Bonanno, Bonventre, and Magaddino Mafia families relocated to New York, forming the Castellammarese clan due to their rivalry with Felice Buccellato, the boss of the Buccellato Mafia clan. The newly arriving Bonanno, Bonventre and Magaddino Mafia members began establishing dominance and control in the Castellammarese community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. While operating in Brooklyn, the Castellammarese leaders were able to preserve the criminal organization's future. In 1927 violence broke out between the two rival New York Mafia factions and soon developed into a full out war known as the Castellammarese War. It all started when members of the Castellammarese Clan began hijacking truckloads of illegal liquor that belonged to Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria. The small