by NickleCity » Thu Dec 19, 2024 9:30 am
Wiseguy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 9:07 am
It begs the question, what does "mob connected" mean when there is no mob to speak of? And besides that drug case above, which was from the early 1990's if I'm not mistaken, even the 2004 investigation was 20 years ago. I really wish you guys would become more familiar with the last vestiges of activity of other families around the country. You'd see Buffalo is a carbon copy of those.
All cases from 90 to today show and/or
allege connections to IOC and/or mob associates. I’ve documented these in the attached news articles and court filings in the actual X thread. They key thing this thread shows to me is a continuance of DTO’s via same mob connected/adjacent families and that Vegas in some manner or another appears to be a common thread in all of them.
Wiseguy, you are right none of these are labeled mafia drug rings although people in each of them from the 90’s to today are said to be associates or more in newspaper and court filings. Precedence shows even in the 90’s, at the height of Todaro’s, strength they couldn’t completely connect these DTO to the leadership of the family, which news articles indicate they were actively trying to do.
Buffalo has had an official “no drugs policy.” This doesn’t mean they don’t traffic them or that they don’t encourage their trafficking. It just means the family goes to great lengths to distance itself via plausible deniability and that the family won’t support you if you are caught—so as to keep their distance and plausible deniability.
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It begs the question, what does "mob connected" mean when there is no mob to speak of? And besides that drug case above, which was from the early 1990's if I'm not mistaken, even the 2004 investigation was 20 years ago. I really wish you guys would become more familiar with the last vestiges of activity of other families around the country. You'd see Buffalo is a carbon copy of those.
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All cases from 90 to today show and/or
allege connections to IOC and/or mob associates. I’ve documented these in the attached news articles and court filings in the actual X thread. They key thing this thread shows to me is a continuance of DTO’s via same mob connected/adjacent families and that Vegas in some manner or another appears to be a common thread in all of them.
Wiseguy, you are right none of these are labeled mafia drug rings although people in each of them from the 90’s to today are said to be associates or more in newspaper and court filings. Precedence shows even in the 90’s, at the height of Todaro’s, strength they couldn’t completely connect these DTO to the leadership of the family, which news articles indicate they were actively trying to do.
Buffalo has had an official “no drugs policy.” This doesn’t mean they don’t traffic them or that they don’t encourage their trafficking. It just means the family goes to great lengths to distance itself via plausible deniability and that the family won’t support you if you are caught—so as to keep their distance and plausible deniability.