In 1920's Chicago, Al Capone friend and associate, racketeer Mike Merlo, was head of the Mafia, (Capone was Neapolitan and at the time couldn't be "made"-he controlled it thru Merlo), which was then known as, the Unione Siciliane.
Merlo met his demise when he died of cancer - see, they all didn't get rubbed out by Tommy guns.
In the glorious tradition of gangster funerals, Merlo's cortege to the cemetary included a grotesque larger-than-life wax effigy of Merlo covered in flowers that rode at the head of the procession in an open-top convertable....
Like I said, from one Chicago mobster all the way down to the current Godfather-in-Chief.....
