JoelTurner wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 10:19 pm
B. wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 2:25 pm
Looking at the drug trafficker collection Motorfab shared, it has Vincent Todaro as an associate of Leonardo Crimi of Vita. Crimi is said in the report to be involved with the mafia "gang" of Salemi and was also connected to the well-known Salemi mafiosi like Zizzo and Agueci. There was a boss of the Vita Family named Salvatore Crimi so maybe a relative. These reports weren't entirely accurate when it came to affiliation but it saying he was part of the Salemi "gang" is interesting as in the 1930s the "Vita" Family was actually a single Family that included both Vita and Calatafimi. I'd be curious if Salemi was its own Family or also part of this multi-town regional Family, what pentito Scavuzzo called the "Rosignolo" Family after a historic fiefdom.
Interesting Todaro was doing business with important people from Vita itself given his associations in Newark.
Todaro was being supplied by Antoine Cordoliani who was mentioned earlier in this thread.
motorfab wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 9:56 am
Cordoliani also supplied Papalia/the Aguecis/Indelicato & Zizzo with an heroin
I wouldn’t be surprised if Todaro got his international narcotics contacts from Sam Accardi. Earlier, he had worked with him on both his liquor and his ration stamp operations. This theory fits with the Vita/Salemi connection that you mentioned.
Then again, I don’t know just how connected his family really was. I haven’t yet connected his father with any of the other Todaros or Badolatos
Yes at the time the Italian, French and American justices had linked Todaro to the Zizzo/Cordoliani/Papalia drug network, about thirty individuals on both sides of the Atlantic had been indicted and tried.
Todaro & Cordoliani were indicted in 1958, I suppose it is linked
The network had been discovered after Salvatore Rinaldo & Matteo Palmeri were arrested in 1960.
The next issue of Informer which comes out in November is dedicated to Joe Valachi. I was invited by Thomas Hunt to write an article, and since Valachi was specifically involved in this network, I wrote an article that details the whole affair.
Even though I don't mention Todaro in it (I wanted to do it at first but it was complicated), I mention Accardi who had been fined by Magaddino because he was trafficking in Ontario without his authorization.
Accardi being from Vita, I'm sure he was fully involved with Zizzo and the others