Overview
THE LAST OF THE BIG-TIME MOB BOSSES—AND THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL
He was the last of his kind—an old-world Mob boss steeped in omertà, the Mafia code of silence. While his arrogant friend John Gotti was being secretly recorded by the FBI, Joseph Massino, head of the Bonanno family, quietly became known as “The Ear” by ordering his men to point to their ear instead of saying his name out loud.
For more than 20 years, Massino ran what was called the largest criminal network in the United States, employing over 250 made men and untold numbers of associates. The Bonanno family was responsible for over 30 murders, even killing a dozen of its own members to settle scores. Massino ran a tight organization, obsessively checking his social club for bugging devices, frustrating FBI surveillance. But in the end, facing the death penalty and the prospect of leaving his family penniless, Massino would be brought down from the inside, by the underboss who was not only his closest and most trusted friend―but a member of his blood family. So, he started talking to the FBI—the first Mafia godfather to break the sacred code of omertà—which bought him another two decades of life, the final years of which he spent in the Witness Protection Program before dying a free man.
Based on exclusive interviews with Massino’s family and closest associates, as well as law enforcement officials and confidential sources, King of the Godfathers is the epic inside story of this Bonanno family boss who was at one time the most powerful gangster in America.
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