The mob boss who concealed himself beneath casks of olive oilFew people were familiar with Joe Profaci, despite him being one of the most prosperous criminals in American history. He was the leader of one of New York's Five Families and a founding member of the Mafia's Commission. He dominated Brooklyn's criminal underground for more than three decades while keeping up the ideal front for a prosperous olive oil import company that made him known as "The Olive Oil King." According to this history, a poor Sicilian immigrant became a formidable crime lord who had a role in the formation of the contemporary American Mafia. Profaci's story is one of ambition, treachery, and the precarious balance between lawfulness and criminality, spanning from the terrible Castellammarese War to the establishment of the Five Families, from Prohibition bootlegging to the spectacular Gallo Rebellion that destroyed his empire. This book offers an uncompromising look at the man who mastered the art of hiding in plain sight creating two empires while the world only saw one based on FBI files, court records, and historical papers.