Michael and Joseph T-----: Fake

Hey guys , I've been reading all over the Internet about these two brothers T----- who are allegedly made guys in the Big Easy, I am 99.9 percent sure that they are both just as fake as "Paulie Stripes DeMarco" can anyone please confirm my claim

I don't think they are fake, it seems as the brothers are boss and underbooss and are building and recruiting. I've also read on numerous sites they have ties to the colombo's and associates on Florida.

http://neworleansmobster.blogspot.com/

http://mafianews2011.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-orleans-mafia-today.html

Wish we could get more info on this. The T----- brothers are into construction and real estate in New Orleans but I can't confirm they are active in the family. Vincent Marcello, nephew of Carlos, is apparently still active down there. Just thought I would bump this topic to see if there have been any developments.

Also why the hell is TU-FAR-O censored on here?

Yeah I posted this one a while back , no solid information at all about these guys and I personally was never able to confirm there existence, anyhow the Too Far Oh censorship thing blew my mind as well

I had a big argument with a guy on another board about these guys in New Orleans. I think they do exist and maybe even have mob connections. But that's the extent of it. This guy was using them for his argument that there's still a family in New Orleans. Of course, all of his sources just went to his blog.

Supposedly related to a Colombo made guy. An Uncle I beleive. Gotta side with Wiseguy on this one, I'll beleive the NoLa mob still exists when they get indicted and are exposed. Otherwise, they pretty much died with Carlos.

A lot of italians still in NO. My fathers family came in thru there. It wouldnt suprise me at all if there was a little something going on down there. Not as in a big hidden family, but connected guys, guys who are left over from the old family... I think this tufar o claim is bullshit. But thats just me... The only reason i even say this is bc NO is one of the most corrupt areas in america, and italian wise, its the most un-gentrified communities of italians in the south. Which is why maybe MAYBE, i could see a little "family" being there.

Of all the families the have supposedly become 'defunt', the one that always has been the hardest to fathom is NoLa. For all the reasons you stated above, and for many other reasons. The point I agree with you most is the corrupt nature of Louisiana, specifically NoLa. It was the first and largest entry point in the US for Sicilians; the oldest OC family; completely autonomous from the Commission (during Marcello's reign); the cities stock and trade seems to be vice. I guess since the Marcello kids stayed legit, there was no one to carry the torch.

Atleast he didn't use his head as a source, am I right Ivy?

I spent an afternoon Googling and reading a few months back and while family may be an overstatement they have a good size crew in an organized structure and are still making guys.

They are working the traditional mob rackets and have some ties in Florida and with Colombo's in NY...

They are there and working, no doubt...

Strap in azguy! You're gonna catch hell from some of the folks on here for that comment. LOL Not me mind you, but its comin'!

Hey dont look at me! Haha just messin with u.. I think there could be an active family there just not these tufa-ro assholes. I dont buy any of the sources... It sounds like the same guy, always on a blog, or watever claiming these guys are boss. Its possible but i think the more likely scenario is its just some nut who wants to google his own name and see NO BOSS. Like that lefty della university bullshit. Thats a total fuckin hoax, just fuckin career spammers. Like those apocalypse survival guide book writers, just mindless drivel. Anyways... Like i said, there could easily be a family there thats under the radar. Imo, the possibilty of it happening anywhere in the us without there being reports/indictments on it is the greatest is the NOLA area. Think, its corrupt, racist, filled with vice trade, legal gambling, large (ungentrified) italian population, and for the most part southerners are oblivious about lcn unless theyre italian. I dont mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but i could see a completely different family, or one that more or less broke away from the influence of the Marcello family... Who btw are legends down there. Super wealthy family, had a lock on that city, still very, very influential.

There isn't much evidence that New Orleans is active but I wish we could find something. You guys are right that Louisiana is so corrupt you would think a family down there would thrive. I wonder why Carlos didn't make any people. I guess it helped keep their family out of the spotlight but he had to know it would all crumble after he died. Same thing for Scalish in Cleveland.

He also kept referring a report done by the New Orleans MCC Crimnal Intelligence Division. Of course, no actual link to this report ever came. He claimed it said Joseph Gagliano was the boss, Michael T was the captain, and the family's soldiers included Charles Farese III, Frank Gagliano Jr., Anthony Di Piazza, Nofio Pecora Jr., Felix Riggio, Joseph T, Victor Tusa, Anthony Tusa, Barry La Bruzzo, Herbert Barcotto, and Gregory Lola.

If I had to guess, I think he did what a couple other posters on the RD forum did years ago with Milwaukee and St. Louis. They do research online, come up with various Italian names....many actually real and some of them with real OC connections. And then, with that raw material, they basically construct their own family, complete with ranks and all, and then try and pass it off as legit. Then, people who are a little too gullible look at this chart, take it at face value, and believe there are still viable families in Milwaukee, St. Louis, New Orleans, etc.

I found something on Michael J. Tuffaro, published in Times-Picayune May 23, 1985; Nov 26, 1986; and Jan 7, 1987. I assume this is the right Tuffaro.
I´m not saying the Tuffaros are running a Mafia Family down in New Orleans, but they do exist, atleast Michael. (Haven´t found anything on the other brother.)

In many of Michael´s court cases, he was defended by lawyer Rick Tonry, a former politician with widespread influece within New Orleans judicial system. Tonry himself, was barred from practise law in federal court after been convicted in 1986 for bribing an Indian chief for exclusive rights to hold bingo games on a Louisiana reservation. The conviction was later thrown out by a federal appeals court.

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There was a guy named Sono who posted he was a relative of some of these guys and they're not active or ever were involved in anything. I believe him. Some of the guys this person listed are fake like what Ivy said. Furio has posted some old families information saying they are still going very strong, but that is completely false. Not knockin' ya, Furio. Just saying what's so.

http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=646549

They are very much real... the family is very much real... not so much active because alot is legit... but they still active.... funny this always comes up.... go to NO and do research i live here i see what goes on.

Frank are you a mobster?

No thanks. Things are pretty clear from where I am. There's no actual crime family left. Not even enough made guys to staff a single crew.

I trust the guy from New Orleans

I think they would find it difficult to staff a pizzeria in Nola let alone a Borgotta, besides Ivy knows his shit

That's the old geography card that people often play. "I'm from ___________ so take what I say at face value despite any evidence to the contrary."

There's been no LCN-related case there in about 20 years. There are no more than a few made members left alive at most. You won't see New Orleans on any FBI list of viable families since the late 1980's.

There may be some guys down there who are still alive. Some involved in legit things. Some not. But that doesn't equate to there still being an LCN family there. There's no formal structure or ongoing activity involving an organization. Just a few individuals who are remnants of a family that once was.

That's really the criteria one has to go by. Otherwise, we might as well say the Denver family is still around because Eugene Smaldone Jr. is alive; though in his 70's, inactive, and not living in Denver anymore.

If actual mobsters were as tenacious as some mob fanboys/wannabes then today's LCN would be as powerful as in the 50s.

^^^ This is funny

Been looking for that!!!!!

Am I right Dicknose?

Yeah its retarded

New thread? NO Mob vs the cast of Glee!

The age of the Michael Tfaro in the first article jives with the age of this Tfaro guy listed as the boss in NoLa. Still not buying he runs the Marcello family. I will beleive that family exists when someone proves in exists. It basically died with Carlos and Joe Marcello.