Profaci always kept close to the Villabate clan led by Antonio Cottone. Nino was known as U Patre Nostru (Our Heavenly Father) due to his generosity. The Cottone clan were mentioned in 1937 as the Mafia bosses of Villabate by Melchiorre Allegra, a mafioso physician who became an informant when he was arrested. Joe visited him in ´47 Nino was shot dead by a rival faction nine years later.