Originally Posted By: Chicago
Okay, That list looks very accurate. I didn't know if they were counting Springfield, Mass as a Family. What happened to Kansas City? No longer viable? Probably have a couple guys left doing things on their own which really isn't a family anymore. Who was the Boss of Scranton? That was a separate family? Must have been real small even 40 years ago.


After the Strawman bust in the 1980's, there was some residual activity in the 1990's in Kansas City, and even a little over the past decade; including a bookmaking bust in 2010. But the feds no longer recognize them among the remaining formally structured, viable families. Scranton was the Bufalino family. The last boss was William D'Elia before he was indicted in 2006 . And even then he wasn't really the boss of anything anymore, as the family only had a few remaining members left at most. He also testified against Louis DeNaples in 2009. The Bufalinos were never a big family but, at their peak, had significant union clout and strong ties to other families in the Northeast.


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