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You keep eluding to the fact that there was no Rochester "family" as they never successfully broke away from Buffalo but you haven't stated any information proving your theory...
What was The Hammer Conspiracies about??? Aloi was their lawyer at one point... How about Georgia Durante's book?
I revived this post for information that can't be found on the internet or FBI files...
The guys I mentioned were Buffalo associates who were Rochester seperatist sypothizers who managed to stay in the good graces of Buffalo afther the ABC wars were over.
As for the attempted succession, I can tell you that the core of the would be "Rochester Family" were never able to take over the operations even in the city of Rochester, much le4ss anywhere else. The commission NEVER accepted Rochester as a seperate family, and Russotti the rebel underboss, and Picarreto the rebel consigliere were never recived as such by anyone in the LCN who mattered, and their real loyalty was to Pittsburgh and the Banonnos respectivly, not to valente
Gingello, Celestino,Didio, Vaccaro and Chirio the would be Capos were train wrecks. Chirio got whacked, and the rest became Persona non Grata after the ABC wars
Velente retired and died of nateral causes.
Russotti tried to recreate the rebellion but failed miserably, and although the war carried on years after, by 1978 Buffalo had pretty much won the war.
Russotti went to prison,Gingello and Didio were whacked.
The last attempt to break from Buffalo came from Angelo Amico and Loren Piccarreto, who's idictments and imporonment probabaly prolonged their lives.
Through it all, It was Buffalo who continued to run the rackets, as is the case today
The Hammer Conspiracies focused on the Massaro murder, the bombings and the misconduct by the prosicution and pilice, and contained few details from the street.
Georgia Durante's book is pretty much your MAFIA princess tell all...nothing all that informative