Future Buffalo mob boss arrives in NYC

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#OTD in 1961: #Thanksgiving Day hunters in #PenfieldNY (just outside #RochesterNY ), discovered the beaten, mutilated and burned remains of a male #murder victim

https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2016/11/magaddinos-wrath.html

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Magaddino's wrath

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#OTD (Nov. 13) in 1957: on the eve of the #Apalachin underworld convention, #Mafia bosses Joseph #Bonanno and Stefano #Magaddino reportedly met in #EndicottNY.

https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2018/11/bosses-meet-on-eve-of-apalachin.html

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Bosses meet on eve of Apalachin convention

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#OTD (Nov 13) in 1957, on the eve of a gangland convention at #Apalachin, #Mafia leaders Joseph #Bonanno and Stefano #Magaddino (shown) hold a private meeting at a home in #EndicottNY.

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#OTD (Nov 08) in 1962, #FBI installs electronic surveillance inside the #NiagaraFalls funeral home used as a headquarters by western #NewYork #Mafia boss Stefano #Magaddino (shown).

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#OTD (Oct 10) in 1891, future #Buffalo crime boss Stefano #Magaddino is born in #Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily.

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#OTD (May 19) in #OrganizedCrime #History: Colosimo is charged with assault on #Chicago reporter, oil merchant is shot in Manhattan, Torrio is taken in brewery raid, #Pittsburgh mobster is killed, Giannini faces cop-killing charge, bomb explodes near #Magaddino home outside #Buffalo, court says deportation of #NewOrleans boss was legal, DiGilio is missing from #NewJersey court, former #YoungstownOH boss Strollo passes.

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#OTD in 1922, Bartolomeo Fontana entered #NewJersey State Prison to serve a life sentence for the underworld-ordered killing of his friend Camillo Caiozzo. Fontana brought to light the activities of an interstate gang of #Mafia assassins known as the #GoodKillers, but the gang leaders he identified, including future #Buffalo crime boss Stefano #Magaddino, went free.
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https://mafiahistory.us/a014/f_goodkillers.html

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1921 confession revealed Good Killers gang | American Mafia

Pangs of conscience caused Bartolomeo Fontana to confess his role in a gangland killing and to expose a network of Castellammarese Mafia assassins in the U.S.

Stefano #Magaddino, future boss of the #Mafia organization based in #BuffaloNY, arrived in #NYC aboard the S.S. San Giorgio #OTD (Feb. 7) in 1909.

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https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2017/02/108-years-ago-future-mob-boss-arrives.html

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Future Buffalo mob boss arrives in NYC

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Bosses meet on eve of Apalachin convention

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