Joseph Bonanno, the notorious gangster known as “Joe Bananas” who ran one of the nation’s most powerful Mafia groups in the 1950s and ‘60s, died Saturday in Tucson. He was 97.

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.

Mob kingpin Joseph Bonanno remained a web of contradictions until the second he drew his final breath. Articulate, polite and impeccably dressed, the mob boss was nonetheless at the epicenter of ...

TUCSON -- Joseph Bonanno, 97, the notorious gangster known as "Joe Bananas" who ran one of the most powerful Mafia groups in the 1950s and 1960s, died May 11 at a hospital here.

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 "Joe Bananas" Bonanno Sr., former head of one of New York City's five original Mafia families, should be remembered both as a notorious mob boss and as a man who lived here in peaceful ...

Formed in 1931 after the Castellammarese War, the Five Families of New York became known as the backbone of the American ...

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.