Originally posted by Frankie_Pedrino:
(He)arranged the murders of the leaders of the New York Mafia's other ruling families: Don Barzini, Philip Tattaglia, Leo Cuneo, and Victor Stracci. He also orders a hit on prominent Las Vegas casino owner Moe Greene, and Carlo Rizzi, his brother-in-law.
And also Sal Tessio, one of his father's
caporegimes, who had set Michael up for an assassination attempt by Barzini.
Over the next decade, Michael tried to remove all criminal ties to his family
That's arguable, as his continued dealings with Hyman Roth would indicate.
By the late 1970s, Michael had made the family business legitimate, funneling all the money from his years of crime into a world bank, Immobiliare
I don't think Immobiliare was a bank. It was a multi-billion dollar international conglomerate - real estate, I think, altho they never make this completely clear - in which the Vatican was the largest shareholder. Michael agreed to deposit several hundred million dollars in the
Vatican Bank to cover missing funds - presumably embezzled - in exchange for the Vatican's approval of him as the controlling interest in Immobiliaire.
After his beloved daughter's death, Michael lost all interest in the Family business and, indeed, life itself.
There's really nothing in the film that indicates that to be the case. We don't know what he did or what role he had in the family in the years between Mary's death and his own.
