Head of the largest well funded family in the country,the Barzini crime family.The Barzinis own and operate four star restaurants,and hotels all over Manhattan as wel as the world.They own diamond exchanges,exotic car dealerships,and their own law firm.Their soldiers and well dressed and well armed,they are not your average street thugs.The Barzinis have buissness interest all over the world.It is said That the sun never sets on the Barzini empire .In the movie,and the novel the newest Barzini buissness venture is narcotics,and they have taken the weakest of the five families under their wing the Tagtalias to do their dirty work.Don Barzini is called The puppetmaster .