Buffalo/Ontario Mob Acitivity

[Newyorkempire]

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Interestingly, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC)--a regulatory agency--hired Toronto-based criminal lawyer Frank Addario.

Addario at one point defended Vittorio Mirarchi in Sal Montagna's murder trial. A number of ears later, Addario would go on to represent Leonardo Rizzuto.

Wow.
I believe in coincidence, but this is a big one.

Shows the checks and balances in Canada are weak or they just dont care

[SonnyBlackstein]

Shows the checks and balances in Canada are weak or they just dont care

A point should be made on the agency which hired him I admit, the OSC, a financial overseeing regulatory body, not a criminal justice agency.
The clarification may be of import.

[Newyorkempire]

Interesting article from an informant...talks about Todaro being a sponsor through Marotta. Rochester being under the Bonannos and Lucarelli from Cleveland.

http://newsmine.org/content.php?ol=secu ... ia-man.txt

[NickleCity]

Peter Gerace’s lawyer, Joe LaTona, has filed a number of pretrial motions that include:

1. Striking IOC language in the Gerace indictment, or
2. Severing Gerace from the Bongiovanni indictment
3. Dismissal of counts 7 and 9
4. A bill of particulars
5. Suppression of evidence from cell phone seized in Florida for omitted tine periods on search warrant application
6. Ask the court to reconsider unsealing of search warrant materials the government had sealed to prevent witness intimidation based on alleged “deception” in Florida cell phone search warrant application

Govt. indicates that one aspect of ongoing investigation is witness intimidation....


Link to transcript: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59 ... ngiovanni/

[NickleCity]

Corruption News about NYS State’s 60’th Senate district whose seat that has been held by disgrace senators Marc Panepinto and current State Supreme Court Judge Mark Grisanti (who received his judgeship from Cuomo after his senate loss) who is being investigated for abusing his office throwing his name around and family relationships BPD ago get he and his wife out of trouble. Happened more than once - but a neighbor finally got some of it on tape. See: https://www.google.com/amp/s/buffalonew ... 9.amp.html

Anyway here is the new news:

In fact the spring of 2014, two years after former Erie County Legislator Charles M. Swanick ran unsuccessfully in a four-way bid for the 60th State Senate District, an FBI agent pulled up in front of his Town of Tonawanda house.

"I was speechless. I thought: What did I do?" Swanick said.

Over the next four hours, Swanick recalled, he heard allegations from the investigator that Swanick was "never meant to win" that election and that his decades-long friends – Steve Casey, then the deputy mayor to Byron W. Brown, and political operative G. Steven Pigeon – had coordinated with the incumbent Mark Grisanti to set up Swanick as a spoiler.

Link: https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crim ... ec824.html

I wonder if an organized crime groups can take advantage of this type of environment? Need a little background? Lookup what I’ve written about Grisanti and Panepinto.

BTW this is the Tonawanda district. Who has made recent news from there?

[Newyorkempire]

Corruption News about NYS State’s 60’th Senate district whose seat that has been held by disgrace senators Marc Panepinto and current State Supreme Court Judge Mark Grisanti (who received his judgeship from Cuomo after his senate loss) who is being investigated for abusing his office throwing his name around and family relationships BPD ago get he and his wife out of trouble. Happened more than once - but a neighbor finally got some of it on tape. See: https://www.google.com/amp/s/buffalonew ... 9.amp.html

Anyway here is the new news:

In fact the spring of 2014, two years after former Erie County Legislator Charles M. Swanick ran unsuccessfully in a four-way bid for the 60th State Senate District, an FBI agent pulled up in front of his Town of Tonawanda house.

"I was speechless. I thought: What did I do?" Swanick said.

Over the next four hours, Swanick recalled, he heard allegations from the investigator that Swanick was "never meant to win" that election and that his decades-long friends – Steve Casey, then the deputy mayor to Byron W. Brown, and political operative G. Steven Pigeon – had coordinated with the incumbent Mark Grisanti to set up Swanick as a spoiler.

Link: https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crim ... ec824.html

I wonder if an organized crime groups can take advantage of this type of environment? Need a little background? Lookup what I’ve written about Grisanti and Panepinto.

BTW this is the Tonawanda district. Who has made recent news from there?

Give up...who?

[Newyorkempire]

and where was the comments on Grisanti and Panepinto?

[NickleCity]

and where was the comments on Grisanti and Panepinto?

Rooster, here are links to my posts:

Panepinto:
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=4122&p=118890&hili ... to#p118890

Grisanti
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=4122&p=170379&hili ... ti#p170379

Joey “Bong” Bongiovanni is from Tonawanda, and people I consider in the know have referred to Tonawanda (and other Northtowns) as Cosa Nostra country. Street talk has indicated a lot of leadership is in this area. Do I know this to be a fact? I don’t know, but I personally know the Northtowns have a significant number of crews.

[NickleCity]

Corruption News about NYS State’s 60’th Senate district whose seat that has been held by disgrace senators Marc Panepinto and current State Supreme Court Judge Mark Grisanti (who received his judgeship from Cuomo after his senate loss) who is being investigated for abusing his office throwing his name around and family relationships BPD ago get he and his wife out of trouble. Happened more than once - but a neighbor finally got some of it on tape. See: https://www.google.com/amp/s/buffalonew ... 9.amp.html

Anyway here is the new news:

In fact the spring of 2014, two years after former Erie County Legislator Charles M. Swanick ran unsuccessfully in a four-way bid for the 60th State Senate District, an FBI agent pulled up in front of his Town of Tonawanda house.

"I was speechless. I thought: What did I do?" Swanick said.

Over the next four hours, Swanick recalled, he heard allegations from the investigator that Swanick was "never meant to win" that election and that his decades-long friends – Steve Casey, then the deputy mayor to Byron W. Brown, and political operative G. Steven Pigeon – had coordinated with the incumbent Mark Grisanti to set up Swanick as a spoiler.

Link: https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crim ... ec824.html

I wonder if an organized crime groups can take advantage of this type of environment? Need a little background? Lookup what I’ve written about Grisanti and Panepinto.

BTW this is the Tonawanda district. Who has made recent news from there?

I should also mention that the Turchiarelli family which appears to have ties to Buffalo LCN is known for “political fixing.” See https://buffalonews.com/news/disgruntle ... eeb02.html.

See also: https://www.courthousenews.com/former-p ... -sues-d-a/

And the Buffalo Pundit a lawyerwho wrote for Geof Kelly’s paper: http://buffalopundit.com/2013/09/09/loa ... er-things/

[Newyorkempire]

and where was the comments on Grisanti and Panepinto?

Rooster, here are links to my posts:

Panepinto:
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=4122&p=118890&hili ... to#p118890

Grisanti
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=4122&p=170379&hili ... ti#p170379

Joey “Bong” Bongiovanni is from Tonawanda, and people I consider in the know have referred to Tonawanda (and other Northtowns) as Cosa Nostra country. Street talk has indicated a lot of leadership is in this area. Do I know this to be a fact? I don’t know, but I personally know the Northtowns have a significant number of crews.

Thanks. Ive eluded to quite a few Niagara County guys still floating around making the rounds. Not sure about Tonawanda, although I know a few of the Amoias are from there

[NickleCity]

Looks like you may be right Stroccos. Here is a screenshot of court documents related to Anthony Gerace's upcoming sentencing that indicates he used and ex-boxer to collect debts.

Anthony Gerace (Gambling Records & Former Boxer as Enforcer).png

Here is the link to document from which this screenshot was taken: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16 ... -v-gerace/

Could be coincidence, but given the story you mention in The Niagara Fall Reporter and which I, also, highlighted in my post on potential mob activity in the Buffalo Mob's "Dead Years," and the fact that Lou was arrested in Rochester for trying to collect gambling debts with threats of extortion and violence--It sure raises an eyebrow!

THE DEAD YEARS: Arrests/Indictments/Investigations Related to Individuals Who May Have Ties to the "Remnants" of Buffalo Crime Family

For many the lack of known arrests and indictments for the period of 2006 to the present are indicators that the Buffalo Crime family is dead and that any activity is from remnants of the family. This is certainly a reasonable argument. The issue is this: If one believes the crime family is dead he or she may overlook or dismiss possible activity. However, the opposite is true as well. Those who believe the crime family is active may find it in places where it is not.

Below I outline 17 different incidents where those involved appear to have connections to people who are/were in or have had associations with the Buffalo crime family during this time period. This doesn't mean all incidents are connected to the Buffalo mob. However, the more I look into connections the more I believe the Buffalo crime family has been active all along. At the very least it has influenced a great deal of criminal behavior even today.

1. 2006: Turchiarelli, Cimento, and Bianchi indicted for trying to collect a gambling debts in Rochester threats of extortion and violence…

Turchiarelli
Here is a link to article: https://buffalonews.com/2006/05/04/ex-c ... tion-plot/ Here is a link to Turchiarelli being accused of being mafia enforcer: https://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/St ... /whil.html

Joe Cimanto
Found no connections for Cimento to Buffalo mob accept to Turchiarelli and Bianchi

Joe Bianchi
The Bianchi’s were often associated with Rochester faction. See: http://mafiamembershipcharts.blogspot.c ... -list.html In the 70’s/80’s they owned restaurants frequented by the mob in Rochester.

Richard Bianchi is currently chairman of WNY OTB (Off Track Betting) which is being investigated by a Federal Grand Jury. Here is the link: https://www.investigativepost.org/2019/ ... igate-otb/ The OTB in WNY has been accused of intimidating witnesses. Here is the article: https://www.investigativepost.org/2019/ ... g-witness/

In 1977 Joe Gerace, a Vegas blackjack dealer, was indicted on manslaughter charges in Buffalo.



It appears Joe Gerace had a relationship with Richard Turchiarelli who was also involved in the beating after a engagement party for a Buffalo police officer named Richard Atti See screen shot and this casetext link: https://casetext.com/case/people-v-gramaglia



Is Richard Turchiarelli related to the exBoxer and possible enforcer for the Geraces'? I don't know for sure, but I did dig up a Richard who is related to a Lou but I don't know in what capacity or if it is the same Lou. Does anyone have any information on this?

Joe Gerace is friendly with the Todaro's (if not related to them and the Gerace family in Buffalo.) He signed both Joe Todaro Sr. and Josephine "Nanni T's" obituary guestbooks.



Also of interest is the involvement of tobacco salesman Jack Giammaresi given the Buffalo crime family has had significant involvement in tobacco smuggling in conjunction with the indigenous peoples and their reservations in upstate NY. Also interesting that this incident involved another Buffalo police officer Philip Gramaglia. Perhaps the Gerace family has had a lot of "influence" on law enforcement in WNY.

Here is a link to a WIVB news video of Atti, Giammaresi, & Gramaglia's sentencing: https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/dig ... d/88/rec/1

Here is another interesting piece of information: I Just found another Giammaresi in Fino’s book The Triangle Exit. It appears Tom Giammaresi was a bodyguard and associate of Pieri who, as a BPD Detective, provided Pieri with information about ongoing investigations. Here is what Fino wrote:

Sam Pieri wasted little time in his role as my Buffalo Mafia helmsman and ignoring the orders that he was to communicate with me through his nephew, he introduced me to his bodyguard and close associate, Tom Giammaresi, a Buffalo Police detective who provided him with sensitive information about ongoing investigations. As we sat in the kitchen of the Pieri home (owned by Giammaresi), Sammy told me that he wanted office space for a business that was envisioned by the elder Mafioso and his obedient police officer. The plan was for Giammaresi to form a minority company to take advantage of the current laws that required all state and federal projects to award a percentage to minority-owned contractors and businesses. Enjoying the assistance of the family-controlled Local 210, they decided to take advantage of the proposed multi-million dollar light rail rapid transit project that was a focal point of Buffalo's future and viability. Their idea was to start an equipment leasing company that would make machinery available for the general and subcontractors that would be awarded the massive amount of work.

Think this lends some more support to the idea that the 1977 beating/Joe Gerace, Turchiarelli, Jack Giammaresi connections are mob related, which adds support to the notion that the Gerace family has had a history or relationships with corrupt law enforcement officials.

Also, given Jack Giammaresi being a tobacco salesman and Tom Giammaresi's connection to Pieri I can't help but wonder if Jack was part of Buffalo family trafficking of cigs and tobacco to Canada in cooperation with some corrupt players in the upstate reservations. Anyway, the more I look the more intertwined these old cases seem to be with each other and the current investigation into IOC in Buffalo.

[OcSleeper]

Part 1 offers the most information.

It's too bad they didn't say where in NY Tomassetti was calling. Or who Ivarone was meeting in Kingston.

This article by Adrian Humphreys says the call was placed to a NYC number.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ja ... e-fall-guy

[Newyorkempire]

Part 1 offers the most information.

It's too bad they didn't say where in NY Tomassetti was calling. Or who Ivarone was meeting in Kingston.

This article by Adrian Humphreys says the call was placed to a NYC number.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ja ... e-fall-guy

So Gambinos or Bonannos

[Dave65827]

They released the video of the hits on Mile Barberi and Angelo Musitano https://youtu.be/VZ36ETeLjUQ

Fucking crazy shit looks straight out of the movies

[OcSleeper]

Part 1 offers the most information.

It's too bad they didn't say where in NY Tomassetti was calling. Or who Ivarone was meeting in Kingston.

This article by Adrian Humphreys says the call was placed to a NYC number.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ja ... e-fall-guy

So Gambinos or Bonannos

Not necessarily, all it means is they placed a call to someone with a NYC phone number. Nothing even points to the Gambino or Bonanno Families being involved in the Ontario conflicts.