Italian Mafia in the South

[cavita]

New Orleans was also heavily involved with Dallas as well with many Dallas members and associates having been born and raised in Louisiana.

[Wiseguy]

Do you think Buffalo is active??

Not in terms of how the feds would define that term.

One 2012 article mentioned an FBI chart from 2006 showing 23 remaining members. Since then several have died. Another article from earlier this year talked about hie “LCN was all but dead in Western New York” and the FBI no longer considered it to have a presence in the region. According to the FBI, some individuals who were leaders in the Buffalo LCN were still around but there was no leader, no viable organization, “their organized crime activities didn't exist anymore,” and some had legitimate businesses.

In the early and mid 2000s there were some scattered cases here and there of the a member, or some loosely connected associates, involved in this or that but really the last significant case of the Buffalo family was back in 1996 when Laborers Local 210 was put under federal oversight.

[sdeitche]

In addition the Chicago Outfit also had operations in Dallas at one time.


Pogo

Yep, his name was Jack Ruby

[sdeitche]

New Orleans was also heavily involved with Dallas as well with many Dallas members and associates having been born and raised in Louisiana.

So, after Trafficante Jr died in 1987, the Florida Dept of Law Enforcement racked Vicent LoScalzo venturing out to New Orleans and Dallas to meet with Joe Marcello and Joe Campisi, respectively. Though they considered Campisis to be the "boss" of, it was operating under the wing of New Orleans, and not sure that there were many guys left in Dallas at that point. Around that same time,police were intercepting calls between Tampa and New Orleans (Joe Marcello), talking about shipping crates of tomatoes back and forth. Though the Marcellos were, ostensibly, tomato salesmen, it was believed that the terms "tomatoes" was slang for cocaine. There were some busts of some ancillary Tampa guys for coke at the time, but nothing concrete was traced back to NO.

[sdeitche]

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Really interesting materials here. Didn't realize there were guys in Houston.

[furiofromnaples]

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Really interesting materials here. Didn't realize there were guys in Houston.

Yes and in until the 1960s the Fertitta and Maceo families operated in Galveston.

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Here is a chart of the Marcello Family Circa 1968.

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Hi, wondering where you got these names from. Not disputing them, just wondering as I've done a good bit of digging and not seen these. Thanks.



Chris Albano

Salvador Anthony Boemia

James L. Culotta

Joseph Orimento

Victor Emile Saladino - would this be the same as Joseph Saladino? Have a Joseph but not seen Victor.
Frank Vincent Timphony
Frank Vuci

[ledblimp]

Here is one Circa 1972. It looks a little different. Probably as new info came in.

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Wondering about these as well.



Sam Tumminello

Leonard Franzone

Anthony P. Marullo

Joseph Robert Provenzano - had read there was a decendant from the Provenzano's from the 1890/91 incident but no name attached. Nice!