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Gmans DAD · **Feb 11, 2019, 01:42 AM**

story- Intro

The Bufalino crime family is a mafia criminal organization based primarily in the cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Pittston, Pennsylvania. One of the 26 crime families of the Italian-American Mafia, or The American Mafia, The American Mob, The Mob, The Mafia, Italian Mob, Italian Mafia, American Cosa Nostra.
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Are Impact

The Bufalino crime family has been bang connected to labor racketeering, counterfeiting, prostitution, loansharking and extortion, illegal gambling, cartage theft, fraud, and automobile theft, among other criminal operations that bring in hundreds of millions of dollars each year. In addition, the organization exercises control over a host of legitimate enterprises including trucking, carting, sanitation, and meat businesses. Although the Bufalino family is one of the smaller organizations within the Mafia phenomenon, the extent of its influence and strength has been underestimated by observers in law enforcement and the media.
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Are members
Law enforcement estimated in the 2000's that the Bufalino family consists of approximately 30 made members, and an unknown (but presumably large) number of associates, operating chiefly in the area of northeastern Pennsylvania, northwestern New Jersey, and southern and western New York State.
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  The Bufalino era

During Barbara's reign he named Russell Bufalino as his underboss. Bufalino took over the family after Barbara's death in 1959 and ran it until a conviction in the 1980s, after which the aging boss retired. Besides being boss of his crime family, Bufalino was rumored to have been "acting boss" of one of the New York "Five Families" at one point in his Mafia career, but in fact he was sanctioned by the Commission to be the "trustee" of the Genovese crime family during an internal disagreement over the leadership succession during the 1970s.

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About the boss

Russell Alberto Bufalino (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1994) also known as "McGee" and "The Old Man", was a Sicilian-born American mafioso who became the boss of the Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family known as the Bufalino crime family which he ruled from 1959 to 1989. Despite being the boss of a small crime family, Bufalino was a significant influence in the national Cosa Nostra criminal organization.

Born in Montedoro, Sicily, as Rosario Alberto Bufalino, Bufalino's family emigrated through the Port of New York in 1906, settling in Buffalo, New York, where he became a criminal during his teenage years. Bufalino worked alongside many Buffalo mobsters, some of whom would become top leaders in the Buffalo crime family and other future Cosa Nostra families along the East Coast of the United States. These relationships proved very helpful to Bufalino in his criminal career

As a young man, Bufalino involved himself in traditional underworld rackets such as gambling, extortion, robbery, theft and debt collection. By the time Bufalino reached his mid-20s, his criminal record showed arrests for petty larceny, receiving stolen goods, conspiracy to obstruct justice, drug dealing, and fencing stolen jewelry. When Prohibition was enacted , Bufalino quickly became involved in the lucrative new business of bootlegging.

Bufalino started working with Joseph Barbara, another young upstate New York bootlegger. Both men were Sicilian and shared friends in the Buffalo underworld. Bufalino soon moved with his new wife to Endicott, New York, in Barbara's territory. Bufalino and Barbara built a close working relationship throughout the 1930s. In 1940, when Barbara became boss of the Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family, he named Bufalino as underboss. Bufalino moved to Kingston, Pennsylvania, a central location that let him supervise family operations.
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The Apalachin mob meeting

Angelo Calciano, leader of Buffalo crime family boss Stefano Magaddino asked Barbara to let him host a major American Mafia summit at Barbara's ranch house in rural Apalachin, New York. Aware that a local state trooper had been watching the property, Barbara had reservations about holding the meeting there. However, since Magaddino was insistent, Barbara agreed to the Apalachin Conference. Bufalino helped organize the meeting, communicating with delegates, ordering the food and Italian delicacies, and arranging hotel accommodations for the guests. On November 14, 1957, 101 top American mobsters representing all 27 U.S. crime families, along with representatives from Canada and Sicily, arrived in Apalachin. Attendees included New York family bosses Vito Genovese, Carlo Gambino and Joseph Bonanno (though his autobiography A Man of Honor claimed he was not there), plus boss Sam Giancana of the Chicago Outfit, and Santo Trafficante Jr., family boss of Tampa, Florida.

However, the meeting soon ended in disaster. State Trooper Edgar D. Croswell noticed Barbara's son making reservations for the mobsters at a local hotel. His suspicions raised, Croswell drove to the Barbara ranch and immediately saw that a mob meeting was getting ready to start. Soon federal and state agents had surrounded the property and set up roadblocks. Alerted by a deliveryman, the mobsters began to flee. Some ran into the woods while others nonchalantly tried to drive away. More than 69 well-known mobsters were arrested that day, including Bufalino. However, as with most of those arrested, all charges were eventually dropped.
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  Ranks
1:The Old Man
2:The Irishman
3:Right hand men
4:Mobster soldier
5:Hit men
6:associate
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