I believe someone here said before that Puzo covered the Bonanno family for a New York newspaper. This would make sense because the Bonannos, especially under Joe himself, and the Profacis were the two perennially Sicilian-centric families like the Corleones were.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
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