The son of mob boss, Joe Bonnano, died yesterday. He was 75 years old and died of a heart attack in Tucson, Arizona.

Im not sure weather to say RIP or Good riddance, he wasn't in the mob was he?

On anybodys dead list was he..

No, he was connected. He was allegedly involved with the Family's business while his father went into hiding in the 1960's.

Bill was the main character in a decent book, "Honor Thy Father" by Gay Talese.

Was i seen this book,but in some douts of weather to buy as most of it is probley lies about his dad.

No doubt this book, as well as his father's "A Man of Honor" are self-serving, but they're worth reading anyway.

I enjoyed a man of honour i couldnt belive he admitted that the commision exsisted

Mafia? There ain't no mafia

I heard that he had one foot in the grave and the other on a Bannana Peel.

Now we'll never know why JFK was assassinated by the Mafia, the location of the fountain of youth or how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop

If it is true that Joe made Bill his underboss over Gaspar DiGregorio and other experienced wiseguys, the question is why since Bill was essentially a babe when it came to the business.

Very simply... he was the don's son. This was at a time when Joe was being "beat up" on by the other members of the Commission, and I think he was sending a message to his own troops that he was still running the Family as he wanted.

Very true. Bill was hyper-loyal and worshipful to his father. Joe always had a radically independent streak that kept him from anything but a lip-service relationship to the Commission. Charlie Luciano tried ro bring him into the fold by making him "secretary" of the Commission, but Joe never really played ball. The Commission's attempt to unseat him ca. 1964 was nominally about his participation with Joe Magliocco in a plot to whack Carlo Gambino and Tommy Lucchese. But I think it was more about getting back at him for his independent ways. Naming Bill as consigliere provide a perfect excuse for his resentful cousin, Stefano Magaddino, to turn Magaddino's brother in law, Gaspar diGregorio, against Joe and Bill, thus "divide and conquor."
Both "Honor thy Father" and "A Man of Honor" are well worth reading, even if they'r emostly self-serving. Bill was his father's greatest apologist. According to Bill, Joe never even heard the word "dope"--it was all a plot by his foes to frame him.

That wasn't no heart attack!

You drinkin' from the hose again?

Nope. He's been dying of the same heart attack for twenty years.

That's why I'm here, but he's got me waiting in a lobby. Then this guy in a white jacket comes up to me with a ritz cracker and chopped liver and says "can o peas" and I say can o peas my ass!"

Rest in peace, Bill Bonanno.

Now, did he die of a heart attack or did he die of a "heart attack"?

RIP Billy

S.C you announced in this thread that Bill Bonanno died. You were taken seriously. People might have thought that you were lying as you didn't url a clipping.

If I stated that a Mafioso had died no one would have believed me. They would have wanted proof.

He died 5 months ago and it recieved plenty of press.

Your really are pushing it here.