by BeatiPaoli » Sat Aug 01, 2020 7:57 am
To Pogo: Thank you very much for the reference back to the 2019 thread!!! Within that thread, you made the statement: "In 1964 after they whacked Jake Russo. They broke off from Buffalo in 1968 in I'm not mistaken." I entirely agree with that statement. However, I am having a hell of a time finding that year of Rochester's independence from Buffalo, 1968, in a book or FBI document. I can surmise from the Rochester Wiki site the following statement:
"In late 1968, after Stefano Magaddino was raided (I don't recall the place) and $ 400,000 was discovered. This flew in the face of statements he had made to his underlings that Christmas was going to be a little thin. Subsequently, Todaro and Pieri met with Frank Valente in Rochester, all agreed to depose/have deposed Magaddino as boss of the Buffalo Family, Todaro and Pieri stayed with Buffalo and formed 2 competing factions, but Valente announced Rochester's independence, which which the other 2 agreed." However, the Rochester Wiki site gives no hard reference to that supposition.
I have a great deal of confidence in your statements/opinions on this Forum. Do you have any other hard reference(s) material to back up the 1968 date? Once again, I agree with you that by that year, Rochester was its own Family (at least in their own minds, if not that of the Commission, which is another debatable topic I don't want to wade into).
Looking forward to your response.
Regards,
BeatiPaoli
To Pogo: Thank you very much for the reference back to the 2019 thread!!! Within that thread, you made the statement: "In 1964 after they whacked Jake Russo. They broke off from Buffalo in 1968 in I'm not mistaken." I entirely agree with that statement. However, I am having a hell of a time finding that year of Rochester's independence from Buffalo, 1968, in a book or FBI document. I can surmise from the Rochester Wiki site the following statement:
"In late 1968, after Stefano Magaddino was raided (I don't recall the place) and $ 400,000 was discovered. This flew in the face of statements he had made to his underlings that Christmas was going to be a little thin. Subsequently, Todaro and Pieri met with Frank Valente in Rochester, all agreed to depose/have deposed Magaddino as boss of the Buffalo Family, Todaro and Pieri stayed with Buffalo and formed 2 competing factions, but Valente announced Rochester's independence, which which the other 2 agreed." However, the Rochester Wiki site gives no hard reference to that supposition.
I have a great deal of confidence in your statements/opinions on this Forum. Do you have any other hard reference(s) material to back up the 1968 date? Once again, I agree with you that by that year, Rochester was its own Family (at least in their own minds, if not that of the Commission, which is another debatable topic I don't want to wade into).
Looking forward to your response.
Regards,
BeatiPaoli