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Segment of Chart E headed "The Joseph Bonann", showing the boss box with a photograph of Joseph Bonanno, underboss and consigliere boxes, and soldiers below.
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Chart E: "The Joseph Bonanno Family"

New York police fold-out chart presented on October 8, 1963. McClellan stated that it carried 21 names, 17 of them identified by Valachi.

Date
1963-10-08
Kind
hearing
Source
National Criminal Justice Reference Service, scan of the printed hearings (NCJ 119303)
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics: Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, 88th Cong., 1st sess., pursuant to S. Res. 17, 88th Cong., Part 1
Rights
A work of the United States Senate, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105. The NCJRS cover sheet records reproduction permission as "Public Domain / U.S. Senate."

Chart E was presented by Deputy Chief Inspector Shanley on October 8, 1963. It faces printed page 313 of Part 1 and was scanned in two segments, NCJRS PDF pages 339 and 340. The image stored here is the first segment, PDF page 339.

The chart is headed “The Joseph Bonanno Family.” Joseph Bonanno, alias “Joe Bananas,” is in the box labelled “Boss.” Carmine Galante, alias “Lillo” and “The Cigar,” is labelled “Underboss,” as successor to Giovanni Bonventre, “now retired in Sicily.” The box labelled “Consigliere” holds Frank Garafolo, alias “Frank Carroll,” also marked retired. Joseph Notaro is labelled caporegime, beside the words “other caporegime unidentified.” Soldiers (“Soldiers—Buttons”) follow with photographs and activity codes. Chairman McClellan asked: “I believe there are 21 on the chart, is that right?” He then asked whether “Of those Valachi has identified 17 and 4 he has failed to identify,” and Shanley agreed.

This is a subcommittee exhibit. The names, ranks and relationships printed on it are the labels of a 1963 police or staff chart. They are not findings of the subcommittee or of a court, and this archive does not copy any of them onto a family page or a person page. The scan is the Bureau of Narcotics library copy of the printed hearings. The fold-out was photographed in overlapping segments, so a name at the edge of one segment may be cut off and repeated on the next.

itemHearing of October 8, 1963: the five New York family charts presentedNew York police Deputy Chief Inspector John J. Shanley presented Charts A to E, and Valachi answered questions about the men on them. McClellan directed that the charts be printed "exactly as they appear."itemChart D: "The Giuseppe Magliocco Family"New York police fold-out chart presented on October 8, 1963, of what counsel called "originally ... the Profaci family": boss, underboss, caporegime and soldiers. No consigliere box is printed.itemTestimony of Joseph Valachi, October 1, 1963: the initiation ceremonyValachi described the ceremony at which he said he was made a member, with Salvatore Maranzano speaking. The same day, staff presented Exhibit 8, the Masseria-Maranzano war chart.