Buffalo/Ontario Mob Acitivity

[NickleCity]

Frank Todaro (Related to Joe Jr.) won his Erie County legislature seat.
https://buffalonews.com/2019/11/05/fran ... gislature/

For fun watch the commercial for his auto body shop called Collision Masters. I wonder if he’s “gotta guy?”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A139fuVuY ... ex=13&t=0s

[Strax]

First On 7: Corrupt DEA agent took bribes to help Buffalo Mafia friends evade scrutiny, feds say

Bongiovanni accepted $250,000 in bribes, feds say

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Joseph Bongiovanni, a federal agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, was supposed to be stopping the flow of drugs into Western New York.

But federal prosecutors say Bongiovanni was doing the opposite.

For more than a decade, the DEA agent orchestrated a corrupt scheme in which he protected his drug-dealing friends who had ties to the Buffalo Mafia, prosecutors say.

In exchange for the protection, the drug dealers paid Bongiovanni more than $250,000 in bribes, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday morning and obtained exclusively by the 7 Eyewitness News I-Team.

From 2008 to 2017, the DEA agent “provided information about investigations, including the status of specific investigative techniques, potential witnesses, and confidential sources during routine recurring meetings with drug traffickers who were paying him bribes,” stated the indictment, which was filed under seal in federal court last week.

The indictment, secured by U.S. Attorney J.P. Kennedy, states that Bongiovanni protected his drug-dealing friends from federal investigations as they distributed 1,000 kilograms of marijuana and cocaine on the streets of Western New York.

Bongiovanni also shut down criminal investigations by other agents relating to his friends, and even dissuaded witnesses from providing information to a grand jury that would have implicated those friends in their drug trafficking operations, the document states.

Bongiovanni’s friends, the indictment states, included “individuals he believed to be members of, connected to, or associated with Italian Organized Crime (IOC) in the Western District of New York and elsewhere.”

That line — suggesting a resurgence of the Buffalo Mafia, thought by many experts to be dead following more than a decade of aggressive federal prosecution — is sure to draw attention. Another line in the indictment states Bongiovanni attempted to “dissuade” a fellow agent from investigating one of his friends “by asking his colleague if he ‘hated italians.’”

After he accepted more than a quarter-million dollars in bribes, Bongiovanni retired from the DEA in February, but not before wiping his work phone of all data and removing a DEA case file and storing it in the basement of his Kenmore home, officials said.

Bongiovanni, who faces 11 federal charges of conspiracy, accepting bribes, obstructing justice and providing false statements, appeared in Federal Court in Buffalo on Tuesday. He was released on $250,000 bond and was ordered to surrender his passport.

“This is an accusation, it’s an allegation,” said Bongiovanni’s attorney, Paul Cambria. “There hasn’t been anything proven at this point.”

Bongiovanni became a DEA agent in 1998 and has worked in the Buffalo office since 2001. Prior to becoming a federal agent, he was an Erie County Sheriff’s Deputy.

Source: https://www.wkbw.com/news/i-team/exclus ... y-feds-say

[TommyGambino]

50 pages.....

[TommyGambino]

I thought Manning said the members living in buffalo weren't involved in drugs....

[NickleCity]

I thought Manning said the members living in buffalo weren't involved in drugs....

DEA agent hid their involvement for 10+ years. He was DEA agent in Buffalo since 2001 and before that an Erie County Sheriff’s deputy.

“From 2008 - 2017 the DEA agent provided information about investigations, including the status of specific investigative techniques, potential witnesses, and confidential sources during routine recurring meetings with drug traffickers who were paying him bribes,...”

[CabriniGreen]

Ok, I wish they had mentioned the Violis, but this is a start.

Confirms mafia guys running narcotics in Buffalo.... Dont know who else it would be....

Again, no confirmation, but the Violis had a lot of connections.....

[Chucky]

50 pages.....

I'll take the under

[NickleCity]

FBI agents were at Buffalo City Hall on Wednesday morning as part of a public corruption probe.

The FBI is working with investigators from U.S. Housing and Urban Development and the IRS as part of a court-authorized search, FBI spokeswoman Maureen Dempsey said.

"We have not made any arrests," Dempsey said

https://buffalonews.com/2019/11/06/fbi- ... ion-probe/

[Pogo The Clown]

Already a thread on this.


viewtopic.php?f=29&t=4122&start=2470

[Moscone65]

https://nypost.com/2019/11/06/crooked-d ... thorities/

[Moscone65]

https://nypost.com/2019/11/06/crooked-d ... thorities/

Intersting, one of his contacts owned a stripclub in the buffalo area and called him for help with a stripper who overdosed and died. Sounds like something out of the sopranos

[NickleCity]

From the first count of the indictment section 57 of Joseph Bongiovanni in Buffalo:

…(x) defendant stated that he kept a DEA case file in his house because it was an old case and he thought it would come up again and the defendant wanted to verify everything was on the up and up.; (xi) the defendant stated that he knew there was an ongoing investigation of IOC which is why the defendant kept the file; (xii) the defendant stated that Peter Millitello was the source in the DEA Case Number C2-13-0026, but Millitello was arrested for selling fentanyl and heroin; and (xiii) the defendant stated that he learned about a current investigation with a DOJ OIG SA asked him about the subject of the investigation during and interview earlier in the year.

Here are links to that arrest and case:
https://buffalonews.com/2016/11/16/fata ... ndictment/

https://cnycentral.com/news/local/sheri ... -drug-ring

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdny/pr/bu ... -local-man

https://buffalonews.com/2015/11/04/hear ... oin-death/

https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/drug- ... -128007299


Militello has long been a named associated with narcotics and the Buffalo Mob:

Militello and Simpson investigated for cocaine distribution with Sardinia Drug Ring
https://buffalonews.com/1994/07/24/simp ... riendship/

https://gangsterreport.com/o-j-simpson- ... fl-player/

Coconspirators in this drug ring had known ties to the Buffalo Mafia.

https://buffalonews.com/1997/04/05/atto ... tors-list/

Some of the coconspirators had been involved in the mob run telemarketing companies in Buffalo. "Gallo, who was 15 when he was murdered, worked in the Logik telemarketing firm with some of the dope dealers in the Sardina organization.” Here is the article:
https://buffalonews.com/1993/06/27/raid ... zed-crime/

[willychichi]

I moved Strax thread on the same subject over here to keep it in one thread

[NickleCity]

https://nypost.com/2019/11/06/crooked-d ... thorities/

Intersting, one of his contacts owned a stripclub in the buffalo area and called him for help with a stripper who overdosed and died. Sounds like something out of the sopranos

Wasn't there a Todaro relative that owns/operates a strip club that was just arrested a couple of months ago?

[Moscone65]

Not sure, let me know if you find out the name.