NickleCity wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 5:28 pm
So I did a FOIA request several months ago for information regarding the alleged familial connections between Giacomo Luppino and Jospeh Edward Todaro Sr.
This evening, I just received a letter stating there are 10,010 documents related to this topic and that it would be $265 to receive this material. This has to be a mistake right? In my mind that has to be the number of documents in Senior's complete file.
Needless to say, I am writing to ask the FBI to verify the veracity of their determination and request a discussion about limiting the scope of my request for information if it is true.
Paul Manning deleted his original tweet that first indicated there was a family relationship between Joe Todaro Sr. and Giacomo Luppino's wife, Domenica Todaro. However, you can read the thread by going to
https://twitter.com/CdnOrgC/status/1103 ... 07584?s=20. You'll see that Manning did tweet the following in reply to my question about corroboration:
Paul Manning @mobinfiltrator
Confirmed through police sources circa. 2002. I have intel and debrief reports also.
5:00 PM · Mar 6, 2019
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NickleCity, I think you'd just be throwing your money away to find evidence of a family tie. I'm sure Paul got the impression from my tweet replies that I thought law enforcement had collected some really bad intel on that particular subject.
As anyone will see from my tweets, there could be the possibility that Domenica Todaro had Sicilian ancestry and moved to Giacomo Luppino's hometown in Calabria. Maybe she might have even been born in Castellace -- we should all recall that Johnny Papalia's mother, who had Sicilian ancestry, was born in Delianuova, also in Calabria. When figuring out if and when Domenica Todaro might have moved to Castellace or was born there, keep in mind that Vincenzo Luppino's approximate year of birth in Castellace is 1924 or 1925.
I have never found online an obituary for Domenica Todaro Luppino. The online
Hamilton Spectator archives don't list her obituary, but I think the hard-copy obituary might be found in a library's microfilm of the newspaper -- a librarian at a Hamilton library could be of help and may look it up for you for free.
I was surprised but not shocked to learn that the recently slain Paolo Caputo had ancestry from the province of Vibo Valentia in Calabria (his parents were born in different towns in that province). I had always figured that his brothers Martino and Antonio Caputo, who were known associates of Vito Rizzuto, had Sicilian ancestry, even though I knew the surname is commonly found in both Sicily and Calabria. So I'm open to entertaining a possible family relationship between Domenica Todaro Luppino and Joe Todaro Sr. but I'm doubtful. If it is true, it would explain a lot. But the more I learn about the Luppinos and the Violis, the more I learn how in North America they have stuck to their 'ndrangheta roots from Italy, partly as a result of being related to 'ndrangheta members in Italy and, likely, in other countries.