Buffalo crime family
The Buffalo crime family, also known as the Magaddino crime family, Buffalo Mafia, The Arm, the New York State crime family, the Upstate New York Mafia, and the Todaro crime family, 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. The Buffalo family is purported to hold strong connections with the Hamilton-based Luppino and Papalia families. 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.
Stefano Magaddino, source of 1922–1974 name Magaddino crime family | |
| Founded | c. 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) |
| Activities | Extortion, bookmaking, drug trafficking, loan-sharking, gambling, racketeering, labor racketeering, conspiracy and murder |
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