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Originally Posted by NickleCity
Originally Posted by Giacomo_Vacari
Paolo Violi was with Buffalo and Luppino before he moved to Montreal in 1963 as ordered to avoid John Papalia and Paul Volpe. He killed Natale Brigante on Stefano Magaddino and Giacomo Luppino orders. The Cotronis took him into their ranks and he served as a spy for Buffalo and Luppino to keep tabs on the Montreal crew and information on Stefano Magaddino cousin Joe Bonanno movements in his family. Bonanno was expanding rapidly since the mid 1950's, and Magaddino had Gaspar DiGregorio in New York keep tabs on Bonanno, but Magaddino was pretty much in the dark at what the Bonannos were up to in Montreal since John Papalia moved to Hamilton from Montreal. It's funny, that you can trace John Papalia and Paolo Violi to the Magaddino crime family when they started out. John Papalia from 1940's, and Paolo Violi from the 1950's. The Papalia and Violi families have roots to both Bonanno and Buffalo crime families.
Finally, someone that knows the history. A lot of people don't know this history, because they don't really understand how powerful Magaddino was in Buffalo.
Magaddino was not one of the original Commission members just so that there would be a tie breaker. I believe that the families that had 100 members or more when the families were formed were Bonanno, Gagliano, Luciano, Mangano, Profaci, Chicago, Buffalo and Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh was still unstable after the formation, and members of that family transferred to other families, Italy and Sicily. That instability made them be passed over. Plus Magaddino had strong connections and access to Canada and had upper and west New York under his control.
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