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On the evening of October 20, 1964, Joseph Bonanno, the boss of the New York crime family that bore his name, sat down to dinner at an uptown restaurant with three of his attorneys: William Maloney, his partner Joe Allen, and Bonannos Arizona attorney Lawrence DAntonio. The sixtyyearold Bonanno was scheduled to appear before a grand jury the next day, and the lawyers had assembled to counsel him. Bonanno would later refer to this time of his life as being between a hammer and anvil. The federal government was actively pursuing him for his organizedcrime activities while at the same time the Mafia Commission, the mobs ruling body in America, had gotten wind of his plans to revamp their ranks through a series of planned assassinations in order to make himself boss of all bosses.

 

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