I'd just like to add that not only did Joe Bonanno have no use for non Sicilians, he had little use for those born outside of his town, Castellammare del Golfo.
True, pb. The guy was really insular and close-minded. So the result was that Gaspar diGregorio, his underboss and best man at his wedding, betrayed him.
There's a great story about Gaspar that Bonanno put in his autobio:
Bonanno left the US for a "vacation" in Italy in 1957 (really a meeting with Luciano and his cohorts to put together a big drug deal). His driver's license needed to be renewed, so before he left, Bonanno gave it to DiGregorio to take care of. Gaspar put it in his wallet and promptly forgot about it.
The famous, aborted Apalachin meeting occurred after Bonanno returned. Bonanno didn't attend, but he sent DiGregorio to represent him. Gaspar was among those busted by the cops. They confiscated his wallet, found Bonanno's driver's license in it--and identified Gaspar as Bonanno. So, after years of carefully trying to hide his identity as a Mafia boss, Bonanno was exposed, wrongly, as an Apalachin attendee thanks to diGregorio's dumbness. Gaspar must have been the model for the joke about the Mafia guy who was drummed out of La Cosa Nostra for stupidity: they sent him to blow up a car--he burned his lips on the tailpipe.
