John Tartamella was Bonanno's consigliere in 1960. Johnny Morales was his underboss. Son Salvatore (Bill) became consigliere in '64 after Tartamella became disabled--probably stroke or heart attack.

Didn't Joe Bonanno also appoint Carmine Galente as his underboss along with his own son?

John Tartamella was Bonanno's consigliere in 1960. Johnny Morales was his underboss. Son Salvatore (Bill) became consigliere in '64 after Tartamella became disabled--probably stroke or heart attack.

Bosses of the Bonanno crime family
1925�1930 � Nicola "Cola" Schiro
1930�1931 � Salvatore "Caesar" Maranzano (murdered September 10, 1931)
1931�1964 � Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno (crime family patriarch and longtime godfather, officially stepped down in December of 1964)
1963�1964 � John "Johnny Burns" Morales (acting boss)
1965�1968 � Gaspare "Gasparino" DiGregorio (retired)
1966�1968 � Paul Sciacca (acting boss)
1968�1970 � Paul Sciacca (jailed May 12, 1971)
1971�1973 � Natale "Joe Diamonds" Evola (died August 28, 1973)
1973�1975 � Phillip "Rusty" Rastelli (jailed in 1975)
1975�1979 � Carmine "Lilo" Galante (aka. "The Cigar") (defacto boss, Rastelli was the officially recognized boss, murdered July 12, 1979)
1979�1991 � Phillip "Rusty" Rastelli (paroled 1984, jailed 1986, sentenced to 12 years in 1987, released on July 21, 1991, died 3 days later in a Queens hospital)
1979�1984 � Salvatore "Sally Fruits" Ferrugia (acting boss)
1987�1992 � Anthony Spero (acting boss)
1991�2005 � Joseph "Big Joey" Massino (aka. "The Ear") (jailed January 9, 2003, defected October 2004)
2003�2004 � Anthony "Tony Green" Urso (acting boss) (jailed January 20, 2004)
2004�2005 � Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano (acting boss) (jailed November 19, 2004)
2005�present � Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano (defacto boss, recently convicted in July of 2007)
2005�2006 � Michael "Mikey Nose" Mancuso (acting boss) (jailed February 16, 2006)
2006�present � Salvatore "Sal the Iron Worker" Montagna (acting boss)

Bonnano never named Galante because Lilo was extremely loyal to him over the years.

I don't buy that logic. Galante was dead before Bonanno wrote his book, so nothing he said could have hurt him. He also talked openly about several other individuals he was friends with who were deceased at that point (Maranzano, Mangano, Profaci, Magliocco...) and didn't shy away from describing the roles they held in the hierarchy of their families.

With what we know about Garofalo and Morales holding the position, I don't believe Galante ever served as Bonanno's underboss. I think it's a similar situation to the misconception that Sonny Franzese was the underboss for Colombo in the 1960s when we know Colombo's underboss was actually Charlie Mineo at that time. (Or the idea that Bonanno was Maranzano's underboss when we know it was actually Angelo Caruso).

Joe's older brother and advisor, Stefano, led a mafia clan in Castellammare del Golfo.

What is the actual source identifying Galante as Bonanno's underboss?

I think you mean Joe Bonanno's uncle Stefano Bonanno.



A number of FBN informants. Carmine Galante became Joe Bonannos driver after 1943. By 1950 he was a Capo, by 1953 he was sent up to Montreal and brought members into the Bonanno crime family. 1956 he was acting underboss, 1957 he was official underboss. John Morale became official underboss in 1959.
FBI got informants from other families in the late 1950s in New York and New Jersey, interesting none from the Bonanno crime family (made members anyway).

Is they why the 1963 Valachi Charts for the Bonannos were so shabby compared to the others?

The short term leadership of both Paul Sciacca and Natale Evola, were that Sciacca was tired of being boss and his sentence was a way out. Evola was not in good shape but took the title anyway until he died in 1973.

Joe Bonanno was an only child. His father Salvatore had three brothers, Giuseppe and Stefano were killed and the finale brother Giovanni moved to Tunisia for protection.

They were all inaccurate, but yes the Bonanno and Gambino charts were worst then others. With Valachi given up information, he accurately drew up the Genovese and Lucchese charts from what he remembered before and while inside prison. The Feds also had wiretaps, and informants which helped fill in some of the blank, but they kept putting members in the wrong families do to them associating more often with them than with the actual families.