VITO BONVENTRE AND COLA SCHIRO' 'THE ORIGINS OF THE BONANNO FAMILY.

Originally, the Bonanno mafia family was led by VITO BONVENTRE and COLA Schirò '. We have already dealt with the first talking about the case of the Good Killers, the Castellammaresi fighting against their rivals from the Buccellato family. BONVENTRE was born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, in 1875, second cousin of Joseph Bonanno arrived in the USA in 1906. He became a successful smuggler in Brooklyn and a prominent member of Nicola Schiro's crime family. Probably he was also for a short time Schiro's successor at the top of the mafia family of the same name. Vito Bonventre seems to have played an important role in the elimination of the members of the Buccellato family in the United States. In 1921 in New Jersey he was also suspected of the murder of Camillo Caiozzo (the Good Killers case). According to Bonanno, Bonventre became the richest member after Cola Schiro in the Brooklyn family of the same name in the late 1920s.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-history-of-the-american-mafia--4722947/support.