Joseph Bonanno was a Sicilian-born Italian American crime boss who led the Bonanno crime family, one of New York City’s Five Families of organized crime. An original member of the Mafia Commission, he became one of the best-known American Mafia leaders. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he retired from leadership, published an autobiography, and died of natural causes in 2002.
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