| rdfs:comment | - By the early 1960s, longtime Buffalo crime family Boss, Stefano "The Undertaker" Magaddino had begun to plan his retirement and left running of the day to day activities of his crime family in the hands of Acting Boss, "Freddie Lupo/the Wolf" Frederico Randaccio. Joseph Todaro, known as "Lead Pipe Joe" to his crime family associates was a top crime family capo who reportedly controlled bookmaking operations for "The Arm" with his son, Joseph "Big Joe" Todaro, Jr., brother and crime family soldier, Richard Todaro. "Lead Pipe Joe" Todaro was a big earner for the Buffalo crime family with interests in bookmaking, card and dice games, loansharking, Las Vegas junkets and labor rackets and reported directly to Freddie Randaccio. In the 1960s and 1970s the Buffalo crime family used the Blue Banne
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| abstract | - By the early 1960s, longtime Buffalo crime family Boss, Stefano "The Undertaker" Magaddino had begun to plan his retirement and left running of the day to day activities of his crime family in the hands of Acting Boss, "Freddie Lupo/the Wolf" Frederico Randaccio. Joseph Todaro, known as "Lead Pipe Joe" to his crime family associates was a top crime family capo who reportedly controlled bookmaking operations for "The Arm" with his son, Joseph "Big Joe" Todaro, Jr., brother and crime family soldier, Richard Todaro. "Lead Pipe Joe" Todaro was a big earner for the Buffalo crime family with interests in bookmaking, card and dice games, loansharking, Las Vegas junkets and labor rackets and reported directly to Freddie Randaccio. In the 1960s and 1970s the Buffalo crime family used the Blue Banner Social Club run by crime family soldier Benny Spano as a principal base of operations, meeting place and gambling club, Randaccio usually met there with his capos every day in the late afternoons. On May 8, 1967, the FBI received a tip from an informant and raided a stag party being held at Panaro's Snowball Lounge in Buffalo that night, which was owned by Las Vegas mob soldier Bobby Panaro's family. The FBI and the Buffalo media called the raid the "Little Apalachin Raid" being that a 'who's who" of top Buffalo crime family members were arrested, including Acting Boss, Frederico Randaccio, Joseph Fino, Salvatore Pieri, Daniel Sansanese, "the wolf" Joseph DiCarlo, Jr., a former Youngstown, Ohio rackets boss, Samuel Frangiamore, Pasquale "Pat Titters" Natarelli, John Cammilleri, James "Jimmy" LaDuca, Rosario Carlisi and soldier, Victor Randaccio, brother of Freddie and boss of Buffalo local 210 of the LIUNA. Todaro was also arrested at the stag party along with basically all of the top Buffalo crime family members, Todaro, Sr. was outraged over the fact that Panaro's Snowball Lounge lost its liquor license and went out of business, motivating him to launch a lawsuit against the Buffalo FBI alleging that they were "discriminating against persons of Italian descent". Todaro Sr.'s actions were later supported by the Italian American Civil Rights League (IACRL) led by New York Mafia boss, Joseph Colombo, but the lawsuit was eventually dismissed.
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