Giuseppe (Joe Bananas) Bonanno was one of the 5 originators of what was to become the ruling hierarchy of organized crime in America. The "Board of Directors" if you will who governed big time crime and industry infiltration as had never before been seen in the United States or anywhere else for that matter.

But the very same qualities that catapulted him to the top of the mob heap, would eventually become his Achilles Heel and downfall.

His greed, ambition, and unending sense of entitlement would lead to the destruction of himself, as well as the borgata he worked so hard to build up over the course of 30 + years.

This child of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, home to so many future top mafiosi in the United States, had the world by the balls... but he let it slip through his fingers like so many grains of sand.

But maybe in the end he got the last laugh.... Bonanno lived to the ripe old age of 97, and lived a life of comfort and mob splendor to the end. And no doubt left many untold millions to his children and grandchildren as his legacy.