Buffalo crime family
Organized crime group based in New York, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Buffalo crime family, also known as the Magaddino crime family, the Todaro crime family, the New York State crime family, the Buffalo Mafia, the Upstate New York Mafia, and The Arm,[4] is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Buffalo, New York. Criminal investigators assert that the family operates throughout Western New York, Erie, Pennsylvania, and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.[5][6] The Buffalo family is purported to hold strong connections with the Hamilton-based Luppino and Papalia families.[7] According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the current boss of the Buffalo crime family is Joseph A. "Big Joe" Todaro Jr., having assumed the role after his father, Joseph E. "Lead Pipe Joe" Todaro Sr., retired.[8][9]
Founded | c. 1910; 114 years ago (1910) |
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Founder | Angelo Palmeri |
Founding location | Buffalo, New York, United States |
Years active | c. 1910–present |
Territory | Primarily the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area and Southern Ontario, with additional territory throughout Upstate New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania as well as Las Vegas |
Ethnicity | Italians as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates |
Membership (est.) | 30 made members (2018)[1] |
Activities | Extortion, bookmaking, drug trafficking, loan-sharking, gambling, racketeering, labor racketeering, conspiracy and murder |
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