https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-new...-resurgence-heats-up-with-new-indictment

Owner of Buffalo area strip club tried to bribe feds. Peter G. Gerace Jr. is related to Lead Pipe Joe.

Buffalo was thought to be dead but it's quietly making a resurgence per this news article: https://buffalonews.com/multimedia/...17f8053-f203-5e63-8444-f80ac7300188.html

In 2019, a former DEA agent was indicted for accepting bribes from the Buffalo Arm.

In another scoop, Buffalo teacher turned out to be a drug peddler with links to the mafia: https://buffalonews.com/news/local/...6df34d2-72fb-11eb-ae49-87cf1477ebe6.html

Nice find. This is from cosa nostra news. Anybody know if this article has any validity to it? https://www.cosanostranews.com/?m=1

That list is inaccurate. There is no mention of Florida, which has a made guy living down there that has his associates serve as Joe Todaros caretakers. Also R.P. is not the only member out in Las Vegas.

The violi named ub is Domenico not Giuseppe.
It is not known if Giuseppe is even made although it would seem likely given his brothers current admin position.

Yes Giacomo I agree the list is in accurate and way outdated

Yes Vito they did get Giuseppe and Domenic mixed up on that list. But how accurate are these lists anyway? And who is the source that puts these types of lists or charts out? I for one like to know 100 % if these lists are true or not. None of these allegations have not been proven in any court have they? From what I've been told the allegation of Domenic being an under boss, was printed in a news paper that was supposedly caught on a wire tap while in conversation with a paid informant. I have heard that this guy Vicenzo is a lying, conniving man that lied to the Canadian Authorities for a big payout. While living here when he was supposedly deported from New York he didn't sit well with some of the guys here. They quickly figured out he was a character that was not truthful.

Giuseppe was close to a friend of mine here in Montreal and from what he tells me, he is not a made man in any US family. And also that Vicenzo tried desperately to get him to go to that ceremony where he was made into the Bonnano family so he could film the whole thing and would get more $ from the authorities. When Giuseppe refused to go my friend told me he was panicking and tried to set him up on anything he could. Let's think about this for a second, would anybody that has dignity and self respect get made into a family that was proven to have given the order to slaughter his father and his uncles? From what I understand Giuseppe is a man that holds these values in high regard. When I asked him about Domenic he told me that he didn't know him as well as his brother.

I have posted many different charts on this site that I have culled from various info sources to make a best case chart from info out there.
By no means r my charts 100% accurate but they also r not just a bunch of names taken from another chart and thrown on here with no further research done.
Anyone can find an old chart or list and repost it. But some further research needs to be done like if some of the people on these charts r say even alive.
As far as Giuseppe violi goes it would only make sense that he would be made Into the Buffalo family like his bro. Is it possible that both were inducted into the ndrangheta??who knows really.
Solid info though and good reasoning on not wanting to be a Bonanno.

I agree with what you are saying Vito and I can appreciate all the research you have done. It's also good to know that my friend here in Montreal has a solid source on Giuseppe. He can basically dispute or correct any rumors that are bring spread about him and some of his brother. I also have my cousin in Hamilton have met some of his cousins on social occasions. As far as him being made in Buffalo I can tell you that he grew up in the Luppino family and what ever his uncles groomed him for he stayed with them. I can also substantiate that while the cops were looking for him during project Otreamans he was seen here hanging out at a bakery in St Leonard.

Hi all

new to the forum and been reading up through the threads. my research is on the ndrangheta, I am based in Calabria at I am also looking at their connections worldwide. Just as an FYI, the Violi are both born in the ndrangheta, there is no 'induction really for people like them - whether they use their 'legacy/heritage' is another story, but surely it will be interesting to see who Dom Violi can do business with when he comes back...as his ndrangheta links in GTA are there, and the Luppino links in Calabria are also there, so just a thought...

Welcome Calabrian watcher, where are you in Calabria? We would all be interested into any input you can give on this topic. I thought all the Luppinos were in Canada. Are there still family there?

I answered in the other thread Yes the Luppino's extended family is still talking to the Luppino in Hamilton from Siderno - and I am based in the Reggio area myself (but I do travel...or I did, before covid...)

Calabrian Watcher thank you for your input, it's appreciated. I just heard that last year one of their uncles passed away, I think he was from Castellace and was said to have slot of respect and influence. Have you heard anything? I didn't know they had family in Siderno, are they in laws to them?