In recent years he was linked by the FBI to Gregorio Gigliotti 'ndrangheta was trafficking coke to Calabria and Toronto.
That turned out to be nothing but owning restaurants in the same area. Federici was there over 40 years with no problems, Gigliott had come fairly soon before the drug arrests. If there was any hint of a real tie they would have made it into a bigger case and Tony Parkside would be the star attraction for federal prosecutors.
