Editing Joseph Bonanno (section)

==Later career in Arizona and California==
[[File:Tucson-Holy Hope Cemetery-Joseph Bonanno.jpg|thumb|250px|The crypt of Joseph Bonanno at the Holy Hope Cemetery in Tucson.]]
In 1974, Bonanno and his son subsequently moved to [[Arizona]],<ref name=":0" /> living in the Catalina Vista neighborhood of [[Tucson, Arizona]] with his family.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tucson.com/lifestyles/planned-parenthood-founder-mafia-crime-boss-and-rodeo-called-tucson/article_863a41bb-88f2-56ce-a9b6-304c9c6f152c.html|title=Planned Parenthood founder, mafia crime boss, and rodeo called Tucson's Catalina Vista home|first=Jay Gonzales Special to the Arizona Daily|last=Star|website=Arizona Daily Star|date=28 November 2016|access-date=12 December 2019|archive-date=12 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212200313/https://tucson.com/lifestyles/planned-parenthood-founder-mafia-crime-boss-and-rodeo-called-tucson/article_863a41bb-88f2-56ce-a9b6-304c9c6f152c.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the late 1970s, his two sons, [[Salvatore Bonanno|Bill]] and [[Joseph Bonanno Jr.|Joe Jr.]], were under increased scrutiny from law enforcement<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20077558,00.html|work=People|title=In a Daring Undercover Scam, a California Car Dealer Helps Trap Mob Kingpin Joe Bonanno|date=October 6, 1980|access-date=October 27, 2012|archive-date=June 4, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090604123848/https://people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20077558,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> in [[Northern California]] after getting involved with Lou Peters, a Cadillac-Oldsmobile dealer, in [[San Jose, California|San Jose]], [[Lodi, California|Lodi]] and [[Stockton, California|Stockton]]. Louis E. Peters turned into a confidential informant for the [[FBI]], helping them indict Bonanno.<!--Peters saw Bonanno's nephew flirting with his daughter, he moved to an apartment in Stockton, even having Bonanno stay there for three days.--><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20051116%2FOPED0301%2F511160320%2F-1%2FOPED |work=The Record |title=A local angle on notorious mafia boss |date=November 16, 2005 |access-date=November 23, 2011 |archive-date=July 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728035956/http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20051116%2FOPED0301%2F511160320%2F-1%2FOPED |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In April 1983, Joseph Bonanno and his son Bill appeared on the [[CBS News]] TV program ''[[60 Minutes]]'' to be interviewed by correspondent [[Mike Wallace]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6375462n | work=CBS News | title=2002: Joe Bonanno | date=March 28, 2011 | access-date=March 20, 2011 | archive-date=November 3, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103172153/http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6375462n | url-status=live }}</ref>

Later in 1983, he served eight months in prison for [[obstruction of justice]].<ref name=irishtimes/> In 1985, he was imprisoned for 14 months for [[contempt of court]] after refusing to testify in a federal racketeering case.<ref name="Deseret News-19850907-prison">{{cite news|title=Bonanno flown to federal prison|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YpopAAAAIBAJ&pg=3733,2862020|newspaper=[[The Deseret News]]|access-date=August 16, 2010|date=September 7, 1985|archive-date=August 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814002001/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YpopAAAAIBAJ&pg=3733,2862020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=life/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/06/us/bonanno-jailed-after-refusing-to-be-witness.html|title=Bonanno Jailed After Refusing to Be Witness|first1=Arnold H.|last1=Lubasch|date=September 6, 1985|work=NY Times|access-date=December 17, 2019|archive-date=December 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217211630/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/06/us/bonanno-jailed-after-refusing-to-be-witness.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Assigned federal inmate number 07255-008, he was transferred from the [[Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson|Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona]] to the [[United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners|U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri]] due to ill health at his advanced age and released on November 1, 1986.<ref name="BOP-locator">{{cite web|title=Inmate Locator: Joseph C Bonanno|url=http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&LastName=Bonanno&Middle=C&FirstName=Joseph&Race=&Sex=&Age=&x=0&y=0|publisher=[[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]|access-date=August 16, 2010|archive-date=September 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912132415/http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&LastName=Bonanno&Middle=C&FirstName=Joseph&Race=&Sex=&Age=&x=0&y=0|url-status=dead}}</ref>

During Bill Bonanno's trial, he gave interviews to author [[Gay Talese]] that formed part of the basis of his 1971 true crime book ''[[Honor Thy Father]]''. Joseph Bonanno was initially infuriated by the book and refused to speak to Bill for a year.<ref>{{harvnb|Bonanno|1983|pages=342–343}}</ref> By the late 1970s, however, Bonanno's attitude had changed; he had become interested in writing an autobiography to offer his own take on his life.<ref name="MoH 381">{{harvnb|Bonanno|1983|pages=381–385}}</ref> Bonanno's book was published in 1983 as ''A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno''. Bonanno justified his decision to write ''A Man of Honor'' on the grounds that [[omertà]] represented a lifestyle and tradition greater than or beyond just the [[Conspiracy of silence (expression)|code of silence]] it is generally understood to be: as he had not been compelled to reveal his secrets by becoming an informant or government witness, Bonanno reasoned, he did not violate his code of honor.<ref name="MoH 381"/> Bonanno's editor for ''A Man of Honor'' was publisher Michael Korda who said of Bonanno, "In a world where most of the players were, at best, semiliterate, Bonanno read poetry, boasted of his knowledge of the classics, and gave advice to his cohorts in the form of quotes from Thucydides or Machiavelli."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Another life : a memoir of other people|last=Korda|first=Michael|publisher=Random House|year=1999|isbn=0679456597|edition=1st|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/anotherlifememoi00kord/page/415 415–425]|oclc=40180750|url=https://archive.org/details/anotherlifememoi00kord/page/415}}</ref>

Bonanno died on May 11, 2002, of [[heart failure]] at the age of 97.<ref name="life" /> He is buried at Holy Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum in Tucson.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XvTUBUgZPnAC&q=Holy+Hope+Cemetery+joseph+bonanno&pg=PA154|title=Great Graves of Upstate New York|first=Chuck|last=D'Imperio|year= 2009|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=9781935278313|via=Google Books}}</ref>