Rooster. You criticized me for citing a 20-year-old article, saying "a lot can change in 20 years." Yet you cite Ron Fino, even though he flipped two decades ago. Yes, Fino thinks it's possible that the FBI cleanup of Local 210 didn't go far enough. But the article in which he said that also notes: "While admitting he has no direct information about current wrongdoing in the local, Fino said he is skeptical of the Justice Department's claims that mob influences were totally removed from Local 210 and the Laborers international."
Here is another excerpt from that same article:
"Local 210 is now an aggressive but clean union that works hard to represent its members, according to Hill and James C. Logan, who represents 25 area contractors as executive vice president of the Construction Industry Employers Association. Both described Capitano, 46, as a tough but honest labor leader. Two other local contractors reached out to The News to speak in favor of Capitano.
Retired FBI Special Agent John "Jack" McDonnell said he believes the government cleanup of Local 210 and the Laborers - with Fino's help - was a major success. From 2000 until 2006, McDonnell oversaw all of Local 210's operations as a court-appointed liaison officer to the local.
"I know that Ron Fino supplied interesting and accurate information about how unions worked and how organized crime infiltrated Local 210," McDonnell said. "As for Sam Capitano, he was a very active, very vocal union guy who did fight against the takeover. He's an old-style, combative guy, but I have no information that he is involved with the mob.""

"The rebirth of relationships in Canada." There is no evidence that the Buffalo Mafia has reached back out to Canada. The only evidence you have to go on is the fact that some guys in Canada that were arrested were cited as being members of the "Todaro crime family" although Canadian LE has not released the names of said members. Mafia members from certain families have been arrested well over the families themselves were made defunct. A likely explanation is that this was the case for those "Todaro crime family" members considering the relationship between the Canadian wing of the Buffalo mob was pretty much severed in the 1990s.

Just because Buffalo is undergoing a redevelopment renaissance does not mean the Mafia is involved. Simple as that.

Just because 2 casinos were built in the city does not mean the Mafia is involved. If anything, legitimate casinos hurt the mob nowadays, since it cuts into their own rackets. The heydey of the mob's infiltration of Vegas does not happen anymore, and it would certainly not happen in Buffalo.