@NickyfromTampa. Can’t agree with you about Fino. I think Herbeck May have got that wrong. You write:
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Who believes the Buffalo crime family is definitively active: A couple of internet posters.
Who believes the Buffalo crime family is potentially active, or has been potentially active within the decade Peter Edwards, a Canadian-based crime reporter.
I’d add Ron Fino. In a Sept. 30 2012 article he said 210 was never fully rid of its mob influence and referenced the Sam Capitano being back in charge.
Additionally he was so put off by Herbeck’s article he wrote a letter to the paper that was published. After citing an earlier Buffalo News article by BeBee, then going into more detail about the Capitano’s and Paul Cambria’s continued representation of 210 Fino says quite succinctly they are alive as he writes:
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Many if not most of the leaders on Western New York Mafia family have hunkered down and try to carry on an image and air of respectability. This in no way means that they do not exist and make money from illegal operations. They know that they are being watched and now operate more clandestinely.
