Family Corleone

Vito Corleone is the head of the Corleone crime family, the most powerful Mafia family in the New York City area. He is depicted as an ambitious Italian immigrant who moves to the lower east side of Manhattan and builds a Mafia empire, yet retains (and strictly adheres to) his own personal code of honor. Upon his death at the end of the novel, his youngest son, Michael, becomes the Don. Vito Corleone has two other sons, Santino ("Sonny") and Frederico ("Fredo"), and a daughter, Constanzia ("Connie"), all of them play major roles in the story. He also informally adopts another son, Tom Hagen, who grows up to become the Family's consigliere. As a young man, Vito starts an olive oil business, Genco Pura.