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Joseph A. "Big Joe" Todaro Jr. (born 1945 or 1946) [1] is an American businessman and the son of Joseph Todaro Sr. [2] Todaro is best known as the owner of La Nova Pizzeria, a popular pizzeria chain in Buffalo, New York and the Western New York region that was founded by his father.
The Buffalo crime family, also known as the Magaddino crime family, the Todaro crime family, the New York State crime family, the Buffalo Mafia, the Upstate New York Mafia, and the Arm, [5] is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Buffalo, New York.
Outside of his alleged connections to organized crime, Todaro Sr. operated La Nova Pizzeria in Buffalo. [15] He founded La Nova Pizzeria in 1957, which grew from one small West Side restaurant to a multimillion-dollar business that sells frozen chicken wings, pizzas and hot sauces. [1] In 2001, Todaro Sr. opened a second La Nova Pizzeria on ...
7.1 Buffalo crime family. 7.1.1 Boss ... Upstate New York subsection. ... This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime figures by region and by ...
The five Mafia families in New York City are still active, albeit less powerful. The peak of the Mafia in the United States was during the 1940s and 50s, until the year 1970 when the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) was enacted, which aimed to stop the Mafia and organized crime as a whole. [23]
John C. Montana (born Giovanni Montana; July 1, 1893 – March 18, 1964) was a Buffalo, New York labor racketeer, political fixer, and elected politician who eventually became the underboss and/or consigliere of the Buffalo crime family.
The allegations of gangster-style wrongdoing at one of Florida’s largest homeowners’ associations, the Hammocks Community Association in Miami’s West Kendall suburbs, already were the stuff ...
Rising through the ranks, D'Elia avoided scrutiny from law enforcement for many years. D'Elia was said to be a mediator among mob families, meeting frequently with gangsters from across the country including the Philadelphia crime family, Los Angeles and New York City. But his skill at avoiding the press and law enforcement left many unanswered ...