Buffalo Mafia Loses Elder-Statesman, Magaddino Mob Consigliere “Sammy Naples,” Dies Peacefully, Gone At 88
April 14, 2025 — Earlier this month, Buffalo mob consigliere Salvatore (Sammy Naples) Napoli quietly passed away at 88 years old at his upscale Western New York retirement home. Per sources, in his final years, the wise, low-key Napoli, known as the consummate gentleman racketeer throughout East Coast LCN circles, served as reputed Magaddino crime family don Joseph (Joe Pizza) Todaro, Jr.’s top adviser. His dad, Armand, and his older brother, Patsy, were also members of the Magaddino mob organization. The business-savvy 78-year old Todaro, Jr. and “Sammy Naples” both held jobs in the LIUNA’s Local 210 in the 1970s and 1980s.
According to his police and fed rap sheet, Sammy Naples got his start in the Buffalo mafia under the Billiteri brothers, Albert (Babe) Billiteri and Matthew (Matty Steamboat) Billiteri and in November 1969, he was indicted with them in a loansharking case. Napoli was busted in 1993 for financing drug deals and extorting a tax from them and wound up doing a three-piece in the feds. Up until last November, he would hold court and dispense counsel every morning at an Amherst, New York Tim Horton’s donut shop, per sources. Napoli’s family didn’t hold a public funeral, wake or memorial service for him, but several high-ranking members of the Magaddino clan gathered to toast their fallen friend of ours in the days after he died at a local Italian restaurant.
