Joseph Bonanno
Sicily's murder rate sharply declined. Landowners were able to raise the legal rents on their lands, sometimes as much as ten-thousandfold. Many mafiosi fled to Canada and the United States. Among these were Nicolo Rizzuto and Vito Rizzuto, who became powerful Mafia bosses in Montreal, Canada, as well as Carlo Gambino and Joseph Bonanno, who settled in New York City in the United States.