Buffalo/Ontario Mob Acitivity

[NickleCity]

We learn a little more about Gerace's alleged witness tampering in these govt. documents arguing against severing the connection between Bongiovanni & Gerace at trial in the case against the two: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... .435.0.pdf

It's alleged witness 1 (a woman at the strip club whom Gerace had been intimate with) stole Gerace's Rolex. Gerace coordinated her arrest in real time with a friend at a local police department. (April 2019). The police supervisor realized she had information for a federal case and she was interview by federal authorities where she provided information about Gerace, Pharaohs, and others.

[JoeCamel]

That’s a little weak

[Gustazul]

https://gangsterreport.com/all-the-king ... e-dynasty/

Synopsis from behind the paywall:

Starting in late 2014, alleged Buffalo boss Joseph (Big Joe) Todaro, Jr. revived and restructured his crime family per FBI & Canadian authorities records, plus federal court filings. While he had for some time removed himself from day-to-day operations, the poor health of his front bosses (like Lenny Falzone) + attrition amongst lower level individuals led Todaro to take a more active role about a decade ago, although Todaro continues to adamantly deny any involvement in OC / LCN.

Evidence of his efforts and current day activity in Buffalo is reflected in a number of cases brought there including two of Todaro’s nephews who were arrested in recent years for narcotics trafficking along with a rash of other busts of alleged Buffalo associates and possible made members.

The blueprint used by Todaro over the last decade or so to retrench the Buffalo family includes the following:

- Inducting new made members (upwards of two dozen per law enforcement sources, bringing Buffalo's estimated made man size to about 30),

- Re-enforcing links to Canadian OC (primarily via the Violi bros and the Luppinos),

- Re-establishing connections & communications with the Five Families of NYC (particularly the Bonannos as well as Genovese and Colombos) and,

- Forging alliances with Buffalo’s biker/MC factions .

- Notably, since Big Joe isn’t a suspect in any mob associated murders as of now it is speculated that it will be difficult to get momentum behind any major indictments of him as there does not appear to be enthusiasm for bringing only low level racketeering charges against him.

u/CT-CT

[NickleCity]

https://gangsterreport.com/all-the-king ... e-dynasty/

Synopsis from behind the paywall:

Starting in late 2014, alleged Buffalo boss Joseph (Big Joe) Todaro, Jr. revived and restructured his crime family per FBI & Canadian authorities records, plus federal court filings. While he had for some time removed himself from day-to-day operations, the poor health of his front bosses (like Lenny Falzone) + attrition amongst lower level individuals led Todaro to take a more active role about a decade ago, although Todaro continues to adamantly deny any involvement in OC / LCN.

Evidence of his efforts and current day activity in Buffalo is reflected in a number of cases brought there including two of Todaro’s nephews who were arrested in recent years for narcotics trafficking along with a rash of other busts of alleged Buffalo associates and possible made members.

The blueprint used by Todaro over the last decade or so to retrench the Buffalo family includes the following:

- Inducting new made members (upwards of two dozen per law enforcement sources, bringing Buffalo's estimated made man size to about 30),

- Re-enforcing links to Canadian OC (primarily via the Violi bros and the Luppinos),

- Re-establishing connections & communications with the Five Families of NYC (particularly the Bonannos as well as Genovese and Colombos) and,

- Forging alliances with Buffalo’s biker/MC factions .

- Notably, since Big Joe isn’t a suspect in any mob associated murders as of now it is speculated that it will be difficult to get momentum behind any major indictments of him as there does not appear to be enthusiasm for bringing only low level racketeering charges against him.

u/CT-CT

Lot of interesting information in that article by Burnstein for example Panaro being Todaro's former underboss.

[Newyorkempire]

He's probably just joking around though

[Gustazul]

https://gangsterreport.com/all-the-king ... e-dynasty/

Synopsis from behind the paywall:

Starting in late 2014, alleged Buffalo boss Joseph (Big Joe) Todaro, Jr. revived and restructured his crime family per FBI & Canadian authorities records, plus federal court filings. While he had for some time removed himself from day-to-day operations, the poor health of his front bosses (like Lenny Falzone) + attrition amongst lower level individuals led Todaro to take a more active role about a decade ago, although Todaro continues to adamantly deny any involvement in OC / LCN.

Evidence of his efforts and current day activity in Buffalo is reflected in a number of cases brought there including two of Todaro’s nephews who were arrested in recent years for narcotics trafficking along with a rash of other busts of alleged Buffalo associates and possible made members.

The blueprint used by Todaro over the last decade or so to retrench the Buffalo family includes the following:

- Inducting new made members (upwards of two dozen per law enforcement sources, bringing Buffalo's estimated made man size to about 30),

- Re-enforcing links to Canadian OC (primarily via the Violi bros and the Luppinos),

- Re-establishing connections & communications with the Five Families of NYC (particularly the Bonannos as well as Genovese and Colombos) and,

- Forging alliances with Buffalo’s biker/MC factions .

- Notably, since Big Joe isn’t a suspect in any mob associated murders as of now it is speculated that it will be difficult to get momentum behind any major indictments of him as there does not appear to be enthusiasm for bringing only low level racketeering charges against him.

u/CT-CT

Lot of interesting information in that article by Burnstein for example Panaro being Todaro's former underboss.

I agree, the family seems to have regained strength and currently has tried to keep quite lowkey.

[antimafia]

Cross-posting.
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Six new charges against Steve Sardinha, the Hamilton man behind Havana Group Supplies Inc.

https://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/news- ... pplies-inc

$75M lawsuit claims city conspired to dump contaminated soil on land with mob ties

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton ... -1.5919000

Steve Sardinha jailed over fraud linked to Havana soil-dumping firm
https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-r ... -scam.html

You’ll hit a paywall unless you’re a subscriber; so here’s the link to my Evernote clip of the article:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s229/sh/ ... 297a123b2d

Havana Group leader swindled ‘gullible’ investor out of more than $200,000, court hears

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s229/sh/ ... pozcaeByxg

Hamilton files $30-million claim against own contractor in Mob-linked dumping legal battle
https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-r ... wsuit.html

[antimafia]

Farther below is a link to today’s article about the incarcerated-for-life Martino Caputo’s squabbles with his ex — he and she have definitely been separated in the legal sense, but it’s unclear whether either one has filed for divorce. (Question for the American posters: In the US, is a spouse sentenced to life still responsible for spousal support and child support? In Canada, the spouse almost always is not responsible. Which makes Caputo’s case a little interesting.)

The lawyer for Caputo’s ex argues that Caputo is a bookmaker while imprisoned. Caputo’s lawyer argues that the sports betting being conducted by Caputo is legal.

Mafia killer must pay child support for baby born while on life sentence
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/0 ... tence.html

[antimafia]

I didn’t think anything of the murder of Robert Khananisho that occurred last Friday night because of the victim’s name but I just found out earlier this evening, via some updated news stories, where he was killed: the Avellino Social Club located south of Steeles Avenue West and Islington Avenue, in the northwest part of North York and thus the northwest part of Toronto. Steeles Avenue is Toronto’s northern boundary. Immediately north of Steeles-Islington is Woodbridge (in Vaughan), the third Little Italy in the GTA.

I also now realize that an incident of gunshots fired at the end of March took place at this same plaza.

Toronto Police Service release:

https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/55872/

Video accompanies the article below:

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/man-killed-i ... -1.6366733

The social club attracts non-Italian patrons too.
There might not be an Italian organized-crime angle to this, but the two incidents are worth looking into. (I’m not going to tweet about this, nor will I post on another OC forum/BB.) The 2015 shooting at the Siderno Group-connected Moka Café on Islington Ave. in Woodbridge happened 2 mi. (3.2 km) north of the Avellino Social Club.

[Ivan]

We interrupt this thread to bring you a picture of Todaros Jr. and Sr. taking a leak.

[antimafia]

B.C. jury convicts gangsters charged in fatal feud
Hells Angel Larry Amero was convicted on two counts. His co-accused Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil was convicted of conspiracy and first-degree murder

https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/b-c ... fatal-feud

From the article:

What the jury didn’t hear during the trial is that Alkhalil had already been convicted of the June 2012 murder in Toronto of Johnny Raposo as he watched soccer at a Little Italy café. Alkhalil was serving a life sentence with no hope of parole for 25 years and in federal custody until he was brought to the North Fraser jail for his second murder trial. He was also awaiting trial on trafficking charges in Ontario at the time of his escape.

Hells Angel sentencing on two murder conspiracies begins
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-new ... ies-begins

[AntComello]

Farther below is a link to today’s article about the incarcerated-for-life Martino Caputo’s squabbles with his ex — he and she have definitely been separated in the legal sense, but it’s unclear whether either one has filed for divorce. (Question for the American posters: In the US, is a spouse sentenced to life still responsible for spousal support and child support? In Canada, the spouse almost always is not responsible. Which makes Caputo’s case a little interesting.)

The lawyer for Caputo’s ex argues that Caputo is a bookmaker while imprisoned. Caputo’s lawyer argues that the sports betting being conducted by Caputo is legal.

Mafia killer must pay child support for baby born while on life sentence
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/0 ... tence.html

Only in canada can u impregnate a woman and openly gamble while in prison.

[furiofromnaples]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thesta ... tence.html

Mafia killer must pay child support for baby born while on life sentence

By Peter Edwards Staff Reporter

Mon., April 24, 2023

A convicted underworld killer who fathered a child while behind bars has been ordered to pay $3,748 in monthly child support, spousal support and nanny costs as he serves out his life prison term.

Martino Caputo, 49, of Toronto has been in prison since 2017, when he was convicted of helping a group called The Wolfpack Alliance shoot drug importer Johnny Raposo dead on the patio of College Street restaurant during a massive cocaine deal gone wrong.

Court records show that Caputo married and artificially impregnated Robyn Amy Louise Hohmeier of Toronto while serving his first-degree murder sentence in Collins Bay Institution in Kingston.

She became pregnant with his child in 2021, with medical assistance, court records state. After Caputo ended their relationship, he was ordered last fall to pay $910 monthly in child support, $2,042 in spousal support and $796 monthly towards a live-in nanny.

There was no end date given for the support payments. He is eligible to apply for parole after serving 25 years in prison.

In happier times, court heard that he gave her lavish gifts from prison, including multiple pieces of Cartier jewelry, two SUVs, a custom wedding band appraised at $88,000, a Versace scarf and a Rolex watch worth $20,000.

In their court battle, she argued in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that he made an annual income of $243,531 through real estate investments and sports gambling, even while he was behind bars. She sought $1,972 a month in child support and $5,091 a month in spousal support.
She claimed nearly $16,000 in monthly expenses, including $1,000 for clothing; $200 for flowers; more than $600 in hair care and beauty; $200 for pet care; $833 for education; $1,000 for gifts; $400 for children’s clothing; $400 for laundry and dry cleaning; $1,640 for a live-in nanny; more than $1,500 for a night nanny; $600 for a dog walker and $2,300 for debt payments.

Caputo countered through his lawyer that he made roughly $50,000 yearly while an inmate through what he called legal sports betting and a $6.90 a day job as secretary of the Inmate Committee and a prison position called “grocery rep.”

Court records say Caputo and Hohmeier started efforts to have a child two years after he began serving his life sentence.

“On Sept. 3, 2019, she attended at Collins Bay and the respondent provided his sperm through a process facilitated by the Chief of Health Services at Collins Bay,” a decision by Justice Andrew Pinto reads. “The applicant then drove to Toronto to deliver the sperm to a fertility clinic.”

“The applicant claims that the parties dated from 2009-2012 and that she grew closer to the respondent despite his incarceration,” Pinto writes. “She claims that between 2016 and early 2022, when the parties separated, she travelled regularly to Kingston to visit the respondent, spoke to him on the phone three times a day for extended periods, and had weekly video visits with him.”

The couple were married on Aug. 28, 2018, during the second year of his prison term.

She gave birth to a child in December 2021.

In February 2022, he advised her through counsel that he wanted to separate, the court paper states.

Court records state that she lost her $110,000 job as a marketing company account director in December 2018 and that Caputo then reassured her that she would not have to worry about money.

A court document adds that tensions peaked in the long-distance marriage when she lost the job and “commenced extensive renovations of the apartment where she intended to reside.”

It adds that Caputo did not approve of the renovations.

A court document said she anticipates being able to secure work as an interior designer in the winter of 2025 when she completes university courses.

The judge noted that Caputo argued he is not a bookie while in prison.

“There is no ‘vig’ involved in his activities,” the judge quotes his lawyer as saying, referring to the “vigorish” — the fee a bookmaker or sportsbook charges a bettor for placing a wager. “He participates in legal betting with other inmates at Collins Bay. The inmates use the odds from the TV station and have friends or family on the outside transfer money into and out of their bank accounts.”

At the time of Raposo’s murder by a hired hitman, Caputo was aligned with the Wolfpack Alliance, an underworld association that included a Hells Angels biker and Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil, a twice-convicted killer who escaped from custody last summer and remains on the run.

Caputo’s murder trial heard that he had once been one of Raposo’s friends and attended the baptism of his child.

[Tonyd621]

Is she hot?

[Tonyd621]

How does he get a life sentence for a murder? I swear I have seen multiple other guys like him involved in OC in Canada get less then that