Buffalo crime family
Stefano Magaddino, source of 1922–1974 name Magaddino crime family | |
| Founded | c. 1910 |
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| Founder | Angelo Palmeri |
| Named after | Stefano Magaddino |
| Founding location | Buffalo, New York, United States |
| Years active | c. 1910–present |
| Territory | Primarily the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area and the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, with additional territory throughout Western New York, Southern Ontario and Northwestern Pennsylvania, as well as Las Vegas and South Florida |
| Ethnicity | Italians as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates |
| Membership (est.) | 30 made members (2018) |
| Activities | Racketeering, extortion, bookmaking, drug trafficking, loan-sharking, gambling, labor racketeering, conspiracy and murder |
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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, is an Italian American Mafia crime family based in Buffalo, New York. Criminal investigators assert that the family operates throughout Western New York, Erie, Pennsylvania, and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The Buffalo family is purported to hold strong connections with the Hamilton-based Luppino and Papalia families. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the current boss of the Buffalo crime family is Joseph A. "Big Joe" Todaro Jr., having assumed the role after his father, Joseph E. "Lead Pipe Joe" Todaro Sr., retired.