I find it interesting that all this took place in 2007 when earlier that year in April Monty Masimmi was murdered by Mario Vacanti's brother Sam. You will recall the comment in the now defunct Topix Forum that I keep bringing up:
The things we've learned in the Bongiovanni trial certainly seem to point to the corruption to which this Topix poster refers. I should mention it is clear from Serio's testimony that Mesecchia's grow operations go back to the early 2000's when a government agency found the crop on his propert in Morgan Hollow... So he grew on other people's property that he knew until 2015 when he began growing on Morgan Hollow again. It is clear Serio knew of Masecchia given the fact that he and his brother Tom were heavily involved in indoor grow and trafficking in the early 2000'sBuffalo, NY is and always will be one of the most corrupt cities in America because there are too many people in high places who have family ties to drug trafficking, gambling, and murder, that goes back to at least 3 generations of Italian mobsters who's close knit relatives have managed to reach every position of power available in Buffalo: Mayor, Police Chief and District Attorney not to mention countless Judges. I'm not going to mention any names but this is going to have to be dismantled on a federal level. These people run the city with no fear of prosecution. Their nephews, uncles and cousins run around North Buffalo, Kenmore and the West Side of Buffalo dealing major cocaine and heroin, but they always seem to escape the yearly FBI round ups....
In 2008 time frame Masecchia made Serio aware that he had Joe Bongiovanni was helping him and that is when Serio allegedly started paying Bongi 2000/mo. It wasn't until Serio started trucking CA Marijuana from NV and UT that he started to allegedly pay $4000/mo.
It is so interesting that Bongiovanni's from Vegas signed Monty's funeral guestbook... Court documents reveal that Lou Salva alleged Bongiovanni told him about Bongiovanni's "Uncle Carl??" in NV who Salve believe Bongiovanni thought was a made man.