James LaDuca, of 5114 Dana Drive, Lewiston, N.Y., was born in Buffalo. N.Y., on October 10, 1912. He is married and has two children, Joanne and John. His wife, the former Angeline Carmela Magaddino, is the daughter of Stefano Magaddino (reputed to be the No. 1 man in organized crime in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area.) Prior to his arrest at Apalachin, on November 14, 1957, La Duca had no criminal
record, but associated with members of organized crime. In 1939 he drove a taxicab for the Van Dyke Taxi Co., owned by John C. Montana, another Apalachin delegate.
At one time he was secretary and treasurer of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union, Buffalo, NY.; secretary and treasurer of the Magaddino Memorial Chapel Inc., of Niagara Falls, and is alleged to have had concealed interest in Charles Distributing Co., former holder of wholesale beer license, Niagara Falls, through his wife Angeline.

LaDuca is known to have associated with such people as Stefano Magaddino, his father-in-law, Willie Moretti and Paul Palmeri, New Jersey hoodlums, Joe DiCarlo of Youngstown, Ohio and Buffalo, N.Y. (formerly Buffalo public enemy No.1) and John C. Montana. At the time of his arrest outside Apalachin, he was in a car with John Scalish of Clevelend Ohio, and John DeMarco of Shaker Heights Ohio. While in New York City just before the Apalachin meeting, LaDuca placed numerous calls to Joseph Falcone, leader of the Utica, NY underworld. On May 21, 1959 federal agents launched a nationwide manhunt for LaDuca and Anthony Magaddino. A sealed indictment charging conspiracy to obstruct federal narcotics and labor racketeering investigations, was returned by a federal grand jury in New York City May 13, 1959.
The indictments accused all 27 delegates of giving "false fictitious and evasive testimony" about the Apalachin meeting.

On Tuesday January 22, 1962 LaDuca and Issie Morgenstern of Rochester, NY former president of the Richford Hotel in Buffalo, NY, went on trial in federal court on charges of violating the Taft-Hartley law. LaDuca was accused of receiving and Morgenstern of paying $10,833 over a period of November 1, 1955 to December 21, 1957, while LaDuca was an officer of a union that represented employees of the hotel. The indictment was returned in January 1959, while he was in hiding from federal authorities. The Taft-Hartley case before Federal Judge H. P. Burke, involved a charge that LaDuca received $433.33 a month from Morgenstern during the 2 years he was financial secretary-treasurer of Local 66, Hotel and Restaurant Employees. LaDuca was ultimately acquitted of the charge. On February 20, 1961 the indictment charging LaDuca with "conspiracy to obstruct justice" was dismissed in the U.S. district court,New York City.

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An interesting side note about this guy, the story goes that LuDuca had a few girlfriends, like so many of these guys do, but he supposedly had Magaddino's blessing. He also was involved in the transportation end of their rum running activities.

Michael C. Tascarella, alias "Torch" and "Mike Torch" was born in Buffalo, N.Y., on February 7, 1921. He was first arrested in Buffalo on December 12. 1944, for accepting bets on horseraces (sec. 986 Public Law). He paid a $25 fine and returned to booking horses in a more cautious and lucrative manner. He was next arrested for burglary and grand larceny, second degree, on May 23, 1948. These charges were later dismissed. In Lockport N.Y. (a city close to Buffalo), Tascarella was again arrested on December 18, 1949 for burglary third degree. He was convicted of attempted grand larceny on February 27, 1950 and sentenced to 1 year 3 months to 2 years 6 months, in Attica State Prison. Investigation of this burglary disclosed that his accomplices were Salvatore Bonito, Arthur Weiss, David Nines, and Anthony Domino. A large arsenal was confiscated, including a .45 caliber army automatic, three other revolvers, burglar tools and nitro glycerine.

While out on appeal for his conviction, he was again arrested on July 26, 1950, and charged under Federal law with conspiracy to counterfeit. He was convicted and sentenced to 5 years in the Allenwood, Pa., Federal Prison Camp. After his release from Allenwood, Tascarella was next arrested on June 5, 1962, near Hamilton Ontario, Canada for possession of $50,000 worth of heroin. He and Joseph Augello of 7th Street Buffalo, were arrested by Royal Canadian Mounted Police when they stopped their car on a West Flatborough (a suburb of Hamilton) farm road. He was sentenced to 14 years for this crime. Before his present confinement, Tascarella was considered to be a major source of the distribution of large scale narcotics between Canada and the western New York area, representing the typical syndicate narcotic operations. Tascarella's rise in the local crime syndicate is not a stellar one. He was a lower echelon type, doing menial jobs for the syndicate for either pay or favor.

Antonio Magaddino, alias "Nino," lives at 1528 Whitney Place, Niagara Falls, N.Y. He was born in Castellmare Del Golfo, Italy, on June 18, 1897. He entered the United States on November 1, 1923 and was naturalized in Niagara Falls, N.Y. on June 21, 1948. Antonio had no criminal record in this country up until the time of the Apalachin convention, but he was arrested in Italy on numerous occasions for various crimes, such as on February 29, 1916, fingerprinted at Ventimiglia, Italy charged with falsifying a passport under the name of Antonio Giovanni Margardino (disposition unknown), again in Ventimiglia, Italy on March 15, 1916 for clandestine activities (details unknown). He was released about a month later on April 16, 1916. His next arrest came in Castellamare, Italy on August 14, 1916 for homicide. He was discharged on July 23, 1917, for insufficient evidence to prosecute. On June 19, 1928 in Castellemare Del Golfo he was denounced for robbery, rape, and extortion committed in 1924, particulars are not known.

On January 29, 1929 he received amnesty for using a false passport by the magistrate of Trapani and on March 1, 1930 he was released by the Trapani Tribunal Court of Appeals, for traveling without a passport. The only criminal record in the United States came as a result of his attendance at the Apalachin convention when he was sought on a warrant charging him with obstruction of justice.
He surrendered to U.S. marshals after this case was reversed on appeal. Antonio is vice president of the Magaddino Memorial Chapel located in Niagara Falls, N.Y. He is the brother of Stefano and it is thought that on occasions he represents his brother at underworld meetings. His associates include Dominic D'Agostino, Sam Rangatore, both of Niagara Falls N.Y., Roy Carlisi, Fred Randaccio, John Cammillieri, Pat Natarelli, and John C. Montana of Buffalo N.Y., and Willie Moretti and Paul Palmeri of New Jersey. Antonio Magaddino prior to the Apalachin conclave was constantly in consort with major Buffalo gangland associates. He governed his brothers Buffalo dynasty by his omnipresence at Buffalo night clubs where such major hoodlums would regularly congregate.

Thanks for posting NNY78...I have all the charts, but their too big to post