The Shadow Boss of Buffalo: Stefano Magaddino's Reign Over the Mafia Empire - Part 5

The Shadow Boss of Buffalo: Stefano Magaddino's Reign Over the Mafia Empire

Before watching, watch the previous parts here:

Stefano Magaddino was born to be a gangster - Part 1

• https://youtu.be/TMro94KA3x8?si=iWXBChi_NeudsudU

Stefano Magaddino led the Good Killers until Fontana took them down! - Part 2

• https://youtu.be/t9eHIEf0Uds?si=dUl6l8H1bU7wQG61

Stefano Magaddino's role in the Castellammarese War - Part 3

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMro94KA3x8

Stefano Magaddino helped shape the mafia as we know it – Part 4

https://youtu.be/VbVRsBVeORA?si=0K_3zK678TTe6fYE

 

Although he operated a legitimate funeral home business in Niagara Falls, New York, the Magaddino Memorial Chapel, with Prohibition in effect in the United States, Maggadino made his real money running a profitable bootlegging business by smuggling wine and spirits across the Niagara River into New York State, thereby supplying the needs of speakeasies located in Buffalo and the very "Honky-tonk" Niagara Falls. After Prohibition ended, Magaddino and his crime family made their money by means of loan sharking, illegal gambling, extortion, carjacking and labor racketeering, as well as other legitimate lucrative businesses such as linen service businesses that served the needs of most of the hotels located throughout the region, taxicab companies, and other service-oriented businesses. Magaddino's crime family held power in the underworld territories of Upstate and Western New York, namely, Buffalo, New York, bordering Canada and situated on Lake Erie, Rochester and Utica, along the Mohawk River as far east as Amsterdam, New York; from Eastern Pennsylvania as far west as Youngstown, Ohio, and in Canada from Fort Erie (opposite Buffalo) to Toronto, Ontario and as far east as Montreal, Quebec. By the 1960s, it was reported that Magaddino's crime syndicate supplied drugs to the Canadian cities of Hamilton and Guelph, which in turn supplied drugs to Toronto. Magaddino led his Buffalo family through its glory years and its most powerful and profitable era. He was an old-style boss who preferred to stay in the background and not draw any attention to himself or his criminal activities if possible. Due to his territory's remoteness yet the vast amount of it he controlled and being geographically insulated from the inter-family squabbles of the New York City-based families, he was held in high regard and was at times called upon to be an arbiter involving territorial disputes between crime families based there

 

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00:00 – Intro & recap

07:00 – What really happened on the “Night of the Sicilian Vespers”

16:59 – Joe DiCarlo and his short stint as Underboss of the Buffalo Crime Family

19:20 – John Montana

20:12 – Joe Bonanno and Stefano Magaddino

21:16 – The Appalachian meeting

26:33 – The Papalia – Agueci Network

 

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