If you think about it from a logical perspective
At the time of the Violio's bust

L.E. sent out cryptic messages alluding to the fact that Buffalo is still active calling them the Todaro family.

It was just shy.

Mind you this all coming from Canada,
I am thinking C.A.didn't want to put out stories that conflicted with U.S.

So they stopped just shy of doing what they did here recently.

If you look at the announcements from Back then the one thing they did not do is refer to Buffalo as DEFUNCT

Not once