Its amazing how you know this stuff, so is Bifulco the boss?

Amazing? Definitely not. Amazing is Jesus being resurrected.

Its a lot more horizontal at the top, hes the top active captain in Buffalo

Well what I mean, is there's not alot of chatter apart from you and Giacomo on these guys. Right so theres a bit of a ruling panel type of thing going on

And people that know some things like us, dont even know half of whats going on. There has been a good amount of stabilization and growth in the last five years though for sure. Everything that was old is new again type of thing. The rebirth of Buffalo as a city has helped a lot.

Ruling panel yes but not in the same way as the NYC families, more like the Canadian families.

+1

I have to concure that it seems like a ruling is in place for Buffalo, but as I have stated in the past, the crews in Buffalo and Canada are the most active in the family with the exception of the Monaco crew and even then there is the exception of Joseph Pugliese who is still active. That crew is pretty much a pasture crew that if not semi-retired then fully retired again with the exception of Pugliese. The four most active crews in the family are Bifulco and Todaro crews in Buffalo, Luppino-Violi crew in Canada, and to a lesser extent Carcone crew in Utica.
Since Todaro Sr passed away, it really seems that the Buffalo family revitalized itself and Leonardo Falzone was meeting with Natale Luppino and Loren Piccarreto while he was boss or acting boss.

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On the point of dual membership and Luppino....

In John Dickes book, Mafia Republic, he says ALL the top Calabrian and Naples bosses were initiated into Cosa Nostra, so as the Sicilians could capitalize on markets they otherwise couldn't access, like the cigarette trade.....


He says, especially in this day and age, ( and we can kind of see it in play in Canada..Europe...and to a lesser extent NYC, with the Calabrese, Americans, and Sicilian faction..) you actually see more and more double and even TRIPLE affiliation between the mafias....

So is the major action up there a combination of large scale drug trafficking, mixed with the traditional stuff?

Which takes precedence, the drugs or the gambling and stuff?

Just off the indictment I'm guessing the drugs, right?

Hard to say exactly what takes precedent. I bet the gambling, because its a lot safer and a lot of guys are willing to work within that sector while drugs are good until everyone gets caught then theyre fucked for a decade or more even though the money is probably much bigger during its course.

Construction is big still and the amount of juice loans on the streets is just huge. Even if you just consider the amount of money the Todaros can loan out youd be talking about millions and millions.

Utica is active but the money is very small, Carcone probably squeaks out a decent living. I know Feliciano was a good earner but think he may be out of that area now.

I'm wondering how you came to the conclusion that Picarretto, Marotta and Chirico are still active, especially with the families you connected them too?

Marotta I already went into, forgot to mention that he passed away a few years back. Picarretto like I said has been seen at Buffalo mobsters funerals, and had been spotted meeting with Leonardo Falzone and Bigfoot years back. Anthony Chirico spend a lot of time with Genovese members Francis Santo and Joe Zarra down in Miami, since then he was spotted meeting with Pat Gigante, Mathew Ianniello, and Frank Serpico of the Genovese family in New York. Serpico passed away back in the early 2000's.

Bigfoot! Great nickname

Wasn't it found that the Cosa Nostra News author was full of it?

Tom Marotta is still alive...

Loren Piccarretto wrote a letter to his priest admonishing his life of crime and it was printed in a newspaper. Look it up.

Anthony Chirico can be found online and has been rehabilitated from his past.

Your evidence that you gave is extremely old news and does not fit with today's profiles.