South Hackensack, New Jersey. Over 5,000 mourners attended the burial, resulting in a circus-like atmosphere that required police intervention. In popular culture In A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno, Simon & Schuster, , Joseph Bonanno referred to Willie Moretti as Frank Costello's "strength." This would later be compared to the relationship between Mario Puzo's character "Luca Brasi" and "Don Vito Corleone's" so-called "strength" in the novel The Godfather. In The Sopranos episode D-Girl, the character Christopher Moltisanti tells Jon Favreau the story of Moretti intimidating Tommy Dorsey, which Favreau cites as the inspiration for the Corleone family's efforts to release Johnny Fontane from a contract by Luca Brasi and Vito Corleone by "making the band leader who held Johnny's contract an offer he couldn't refuse", according to Michael Corleone, telling the story to his girlfriend Kay Adams in The Godfather. References Further reading Reid, Ed and Demaris, Ovid. The Green Felt Jungle. Montreal: Pocket Books, 1964. 241 pages. Bonanno, Joseph. In A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno, Simon & Schuster, 1984. External links New York Stories – Part I by John William Tuohy TIME Magazine Archive Article – Willing Willie – December 25, 1950 TIME Magazine Archive Article – Willie's Million – February 26, 1951 1894 births 1951 deaths Deaths by firearm in New Jersey Genovese crime family Murdered American gangsters of Italian descent People from Deal, New Jersey People from Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey People murdered in New Jersey