Joseph Bonanno, who founded one of the nation’s most enduring Mafia and rose to the pinnacle of organized crime in America, died Saturday in Tucson, Ariz., where he had been living for many years.

Joseph Bonanno may have been the first Mafia godfather to die naturally. But he did not feel that he had been well treated by America. He said he resented being “hounded” by the FBI.

Joseph Bonanno, the legendary mob boss known as Joe Bananas, who ran one of New York's five crime families until he was exiled to Arizona, died yesterday at the age of 97. Bonanno, who had been ...

Joseph Bonanno, the notorious father of one of the city's original Mafia families, should be remembered as the proud "last survivor" of an infamous era of old-school gangsters, his son said yesterday.

Mr. Bonanno was born in Brooklyn on Nov. 5, 1932, one of three children of Joseph and Fay Labruzzo Bonanno. His brother, Joseph Jr., died in 2005. Joseph Bonanno died in 2002 at the age of 97.

Joseph Bonanno Jnr, younger son and namesake of the late crime chieftain who headed one of the world's most notorious crime families, has died. He was 60.

Balistrieri’s attitude was: "I run my town as I see fit." In the 1960s, the sensational difficulties of crime boss Joseph Bonanno were on front pages of newspapers across the country.

Mr. Salvatore “Bill” Bonanno, the eldest son of the late Mafia boss Joseph Bonanno who became the No. 2 man in his father’s crime family in the mid-1960s and shortly thereafter escaped a ...