34 plus three members from different families and two members from Sicily in the area. That is why you see a large list for the family as associates get counted as being made. Of the 34 made members that were alive at the same time, only 25 or 26 were still active. This is based off a wire tap around 1975 or 1976 when New York opened their books for memberships, this was a hot topic for many of the families around the country, the other discussion was about Chicago flexing and enforcing their influence to a certain extent which St. Louis did not like. There is another wire tap talking about the internal strife within both the Bonanno and Buffalo crime families with a made member named Joe from Rochester who was living in the area. St. Louis was more allied with Kansas City and Detroit it appears.


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