Before Mario Puzo wrote The Godfather, a real Tom Hagen was orphaned and raised by bootleggers into a life of crime.
The real Tom Hagen
The bootlegging Pugliano family of West Springfield, Massachusetts
The father of two notorious gangsters from West Springfield, Massachusetts, was a co-founder of the Monte Carlo Cafe, and a prolific Prohibition-era bootlegger.
Mafia Genealogy 