I remember reading somewhere that Bruno had not allowed the Genovese Family what it felt was its proper percentage of North Jersey gambling rackets.

So the Genoveses encouraged the Bruno consigliere , Anthony "Tony Bananas" Caponigro, who also didn't care for Bruno, to set up Bruno and led Bananas to believe that he had Commission backing.

After the deed was done, the Genoveses of course denied giving any sort of permission or signal for such a crime.

Bananas and his driver were summoned to New York and promptly disposed of. The Genovese Family took over a large share of both Bruno's and Bananas' gambling businesses.

Anyone know about this?


"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungleā€”as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.