Vito Bonventre (January 1, 1875 – July 15, 1930)[2] was a New York City mobster who was a leading member of the Brooklyn gang that would later become the Bonanno Crime Family.

[2] Bonventre was arrested on August 16, 1921, in New York City along with Stefano Magaddino, Francesco Puma, Giuseppe Lombardi, Mariano Galante, and Bartolomeo DiGregorio for the murder of Camillo Caiozzo in Neptune, New Jersey, a couple of weeks earlier.

Fontana identified the men as members of the "Good Killers", a group of mafioso from Castellammare del Golfo with Bonventre as their leader.

Fontana claimed they ordered him to kill Caiozzo in retaliation for the 1916 murder of Magaddino's brother, Pietro, in Sicily.

Magaddino was unnerved by his close call and fled the city, eventually becoming the local mafia boss in Buffalo.