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The Cuneo family is one of the Five Families of New York in the Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and the movie of the same name. ==History== The family was founded in 1910s by Rosario LaConti, a powerful racketeer, rum-runner and rival of Giuseppe Mariposa. After his death in 1933, the family was replaced by Ottilio Cuneo. One of Five Families, based in The Bronx in New York City and very powerful in Buffalo and upstate New York, the Cuneo family, along with the Stracci, Barzini and Tattaglia crime families decides to invest in the Sollozzo heroin's trade, but when Sollozzo is killed in 1946 by Michael Corleone, Ottilio Cuneo, along with the other families, declares war on the Corleone family, endangering the latter's operations in the Bronx. As part of the war, Don Emilio Barzini sets up the killing of Sonny Corleone, who had been acting as the interim Don of the Corleones while his father recovered from the severe wounds that he had suffered when Sollozzo tried to have him killed. After the killing of Sonny, Vito Corleone meets with Cuneo, Barzini and the heads of the other families and they agree on a truce. However, years later, in 1955, Ottilio Cuneo is killed by Willi Cicci, who traps Cuneo in a revolving door at the Tesla Hotel in Midtown Manhattan and shoots him multiple times, part of Michael Corleone's sweeping plot to kill the heads of all of the other New York Families, while also eliminating the Corleone Family's other enemies, including several traitors within their midst. Leo Cuneo, the youngest son of Ottilio, takes control becoming an ally of the Corleone family. Leo dies in the Atlantic City's massacre of 1979. In the novel, Ottilio does not die in 1955, but becomes an ally of the Corleones. He is arrested in 1963 for conspiracy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cuneo family」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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