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We've added a brief biography of western NY Mafia boss Stefano Magaddino to the DiCarlo book website: http://buffalomob.blogspot.com/2013/0...

To bring everyone up to date, since Sept. 24 we have added several organized crime biographies to our DiCarlo book website: Cassandro "Tony the Chief" Bonasera (1897-1972), Salvatore "Sam" Frangiamore (1905-1999), Antonino Magaddino (1897-1971), John "Peanuts" Tronolone (1910-1991).

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Today marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the beginning of the end of the Magaddino Crime Family. On November 26, 1968, state and federal law enforcement agents executed arrest and search warrants against regional crime boss Stefano Magaddino, his son Peter A. Magaddino and other individuals. The warrants were related to a crackdown on a lucrative sports gambling operation overseen by the Magaddinos. The arrests were merely a minor inconvenience for the “Arm,” as the Mafia of western New York was known. However, during the search of Peter Magaddino’s home, nearly $500,000 in cash was found in a secret closet in the master bedroom. That turned out to be a serious problem for the crime family leadership...

On this date in 1959, John Montana of Buffalo was one of 20 Apalachin Mafia convention attendees convicted in federal court of obstructing a government investigation. The maximum possible sentence was five years in prison.

Montana, a prominent and politically connected businessman in Buffalo, served as local overseer of the Niagara Falls-headquartered Magaddino Crime Family. Taken into custody as he fled Joseph Barbara's Apalachin home in November 1957, Montana insisted that he was there entirely by accident and had no knowledge of the underworld convention taking place.

The others convicted were Russell Bufalino of PA, Ignatius Cannone of NY, Paul Castellano of NY, Joseph Civello of TX, Frank DeSimone of CA, Natale Evola of NY, Louis Larasso of NJ, Carmine Lombardozzi of NY, Joseph Magliocco of NY, Frank Majuri of NJ, Michele Miranda of NY, John Ormento of NY, James Osticco of PA, Joseph Profaci of NY, Anthony Riela of NJ, John Scalish of OH, Angelo Sciandra of PA, Simone Scozzari of CA, Pasquale Turrigiano of NY.

On this date in 1936 - Stefano Magaddino's sister, Arcangela Longo, is killed in an early morning bomb explosion.

Longo and her family lived next door to Magaddino on Whitney Avenue in Niagara Falls, NY. Her husband Nicholas was visiting New York City at the time of the explosion. Their three daughters were injured in the blast.



DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime - Vol. I

A brief biography of Buffalo Mafia leader Filippo Mazzara has been added to the DiCarlo book website: LINK

Mazzara, a native of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily (hometown of Stefano Magaddino and Joseph Bonanno), is discussed in Volume I of DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime.