Huge gambling bust in Rochester

[NickleCity]

A lot of the last names of these guys are kind of common up there and there could be people (like Bianchi for example) around that aren't even really related like that. Some not so common ones that might be easier to find out if they have relatives are Didio, Chirico, etc. - always wondered what happened to their families.

Don’t know if he is related but a Charles Didio was arrested for his involvement in a large cocaine ring bust in Buffalo called operation snowflake. Others arrested were Vincent Ciffa and Enzo Volpe. First news stories indicated that LE thought there was a mob connection but if I remember right later stories walked that back.

[newera_212]

A lot of the last names of these guys are kind of common up there and there could be people (like Bianchi for example) around that aren't even really related like that. Some not so common ones that might be easier to find out if they have relatives are Didio, Chirico, etc. - always wondered what happened to their families.

Don’t know if he is related but a Charles Didio was arrested for his involvement in a large cocaine ring bust in Buffalo called operation snowflake. Others arrested were Vincent Ciffa and Enzo Volpe. First news stories indicated that LE thought there was a mob connection but if I remember right later stories walked that back.

Operation Snowflake huh...I gotta read about that. Thanks for putting it on the radar. How long ago was this?

[Newyorkempire]

I have family in Rochester and outside of Buffalo basically between Buffalo and Rochester, and I go up a few times a year to visit . Besides the East Side I know the area pretty well.

Lots of Italians in Rochester, especially the North and West suburbs and the City of Rochester neighborhoods that border those suburbs. Where the card game was located wasn't anywhere near there though and was located on the 'nicer' East Side. I have family up there and I remember hearing about that card game, specifically the Blossom Road one, as far back as 2004. Not sure if this is the same exact one or what but it wouldn't surprise me. You got people up there who bet on AAA Baseball and Minor League Hockey and shit, on top of floating 'casino' type of places (nowhere near as glamorous as the Hardware Store spot in the Sopranos). Go into any Deli / Bar and there are parlay cards and gambling pools being ran basically open to the public. Square pools for every big event everywhere in the open. It's a very blue collar gambling type of place with areas that have "white collar" money... didn't a state trooper or local cop just get swept up in a gambling bust up there recently too? lol

I don't recognize any of those last names except for Ferrari which is a pretty common one up there. It's also a very small business friendly type of place where there are tons of local construction, plowing, landscaping, body shops, restaurants, all that type of shit and they are commonly ran by Italian (Americans) not for nefarious reasons but just because there are a shitload of Italians up there. Besides Blacks I think Italians are the 'majority'

From what I understand there is a big and continuously growing Calabrian community in Greece, NY as well.

I'm saying this to say what everyone else basically said... this 99% isn't Rochester/Buffalo LCN and the Calabrian immigrants in Greece probably are not N'Drine - this is just people that happen to be Italian making money the same way that LCN traditionally has

A lot of the relatives...sons and at this point, grandsons, etc. of the deceased Made Members of Rochester LCN have left for greener and warmer pastures like most people do . I'm sure there are still some around , and I wouldn't be surprised if there was like one or two made members of the Buffalo "family" or another family living in Rochester... but that's it. Just living there. Not operatives running the city. To me, it makes no sense for anyone who is Italian and doing anything illegal to make money needing to "check in" with Buffalo or New York and operate under any type of formal structure. There's no fucking point and there's no one in the country who is a made LCN member that's going to be worrying about what a handful of guys in fucking Rochester, NY are doing

Someone also mentioned a Vaccaro out of Greece. Another very common last name up there. I believe the nephew of the Vaccaro gambling guy who got killed was a mid level coke dealer and a scumbag

Anthony Gingello and Marotta were best friends until his death

[Wiseguy]

Any news on the last rochester family made men?
Tony Gingello,Lorenzo Piccarreto ecc

Gingello died in 2018, I believe. Of the 32 members from 30 years ago, I count 25 who have died. The ones still alive, as far as I know, include these below.

1. Frank Frassetto Sr./73
2. Thomas Marotta/81
3. David Nardozzi/79
4. Donald Paone/79
5. Loren Piccarreto/71

[NickleCity]

Operation Snowflake huh...I gotta read about that. Thanks for putting it on the radar. How long ago was this?

The arrests happened in 1985. I lasted screenshots of a couple articles in the Paul Volpe thread about a week ago. I should correct myself. The OCTF indicated there were no known ties to the mafia, but I the I believe later articles walked that back. Also,thr Buffalo News indicated Vincent Ciffa Jr and Sr (Ciffa Sr was arrested in Snowflake) went to Vegas to run the telemarketing/debt collections rackets which we know were tied to the Buffalo mob. Recently a Joe Ciffa has been tied to mafia debt collection companies.

[Newyorkempire]

Dominic Taddeo - 63/64. Soldier? Made news last year for escaping custody. Heard he has extreme mental illness.

[Newyorkempire]

Marotta is 80

[Newyorkempire]

Many people know who has the big book in Buffalo. Wouldn't be surprised if that chip falls soon now.

[sharpieone]

Dominic Taddeo - 63/64. Soldier? Made news last year for escaping custody. Heard he has extreme mental illness.

I may have posted this before. But from what I’ve heard from LE who know judges and former LE who worked mob cases upstate, the working theory is that Taddeo could not handle his impending full release, wanted to go back to prison, and left his halfway house or work release as a way to reoffend and go back behind bars. Prison is all he’s really known. Again, this isn’t from someone involved in his apprehension, just people who know mob busters from taddeo’s time period. Take it for what it’s worth.

[Newyorkempire]

Dominic Taddeo - 63/64. Soldier? Made news last year for escaping custody. Heard he has extreme mental illness.

I may have posted this before. But from what I’ve heard from LE who know judges and former LE who worked mob cases upstate, the working theory is that Taddeo could not handle his impending full release, wanted to go back to prison, and left his halfway house or work release as a way to reoffend and go back behind bars. Prison is all he’s really known. Again, this isn’t from someone involved in his apprehension, just people who know mob busters from taddeo’s time period. Take it for what it’s worth.

Probable. I meant mental illness overall

[Wiseguy]

Marotta is 80

I'm aware. I raise all the ages at the same time, otherwise it's a real pain in the butt. The ages listed are what they'll be this year.

[Newyorkempire]

Safe to say Piccaretto is "shelved" by the network after that interview he did.

[UpstateDapper]

The question of whether or not this gambling bust is LCN related is a valid one.

Any news on the last rochester family made men?
Tony Gingello,Lorenzo Piccarreto ecc

Tony Gingello died fairly suddenly in 2021. But he hadn’t really been active in years. He was more of a coke head, biker guy. Omertà wasn’t something he followed either, to say the least.

Loren Piccarreto is retired from LCN. He’s given public interviews about it and spoke on his late father’s end of life regrets. I believe he’s a religious man now.

Tom Marotta is old and sick. He is slowing down, however is he NOT inactive… not at all.

[sharpieone]

The question of whether or not this gambling bust is LCN related is a valid one.

Any news on the last rochester family made men?
Tony Gingello,Lorenzo Piccarreto ecc

Tony Gingello died fairly suddenly in 2021. But he hadn’t really been active in years. He was more of a coke head, biker guy. Omertà wasn’t something he followed either, to say the least.

Loren Piccarreto is retired from LCN. He’s given public interviews about it and spoke on his late father’s end of life regrets. I believe he’s a religious man now.

Tom Marotta is old and sick. He is slowing down, however is he NOT inactive… not at all.

I know someone in federal law enforcement who dealt with some of Marotta’s pre trial sentencing and worked on his case. The guy, if I remember correctly, had funny stories about Tom bitching about a lack of cigarettes and tomato sauce in prison. Of all the wny mobsters, he said marotta was the most colorful. I’ll try to reach out for more stories. Though to be clear they’d be anecdotal and probably things that were covered in newspapers back in the day. Not suggesting marotta provided information.

[Stroccos]

The question of whether or not this gambling bust is LCN related is a valid one.

Any news on the last rochester family made men?
Tony Gingello,Lorenzo Piccarreto ecc

Tony Gingello died fairly suddenly in 2021. But he hadn’t really been active in years. He was more of a coke head, biker guy. Omertà wasn’t something he followed either, to say the least.

Loren Piccarreto is retired from LCN. He’s given public interviews about it and spoke on his late father’s end of life regrets. I believe he’s a religious man now.

Tom Marotta is old and sick. He is slowing down, however is he NOT inactive… not at all.

the Feds had a under cover in there club and his phones tapped , which ferrera talked openly chances are if he was in a crew he would of been caught in tape
Ferrara said he was invoked in a 2014 major bait but was not invited