Post 1950 or so Bonanno had started to expand his group's influence far beyond the Northeast-especially into Arizona. Arizona was considered open territory and the Outfit had already gotten involved in some real estate, vending machines, political corruption and jukeboxes.

So the story I read said that Giancana was rather peeved about this and told Accardo that "That c********is planting flags all over the world!!!". Bonanno was also supposedly seeking investments in Haiti, making moves in Cuba and Canada and of course had the narcotics interests from Sicily.

This can be taken with a HUGE grain of salt but in the book "Double Cross" by Sam and Chuck Giancana, Mooney is supposedly quoted speaking of Bonanno "He's afraid of his f***** shadow and he's definitely afraid of me. I've got no respect for the guy at all. He's got no guts; whenever there's trouble, he runs out of town."

Of course personal distastes aside as the book "The Outfit" pointed out, business was still business. In Thanksgiving 1958, Joe Profaci, Joe Bonanno, Joe Magliocco and "Joe" Accardo all met at a Detroit Family owned Phoenix ranch.

Less than a week later Gus Greenbaum and his wife were murdered. It may be that this was agreed to by these men and Meyer Lansky.