October 24, 2020 – According to FBI records, recently-deceased Buffalo mob capo Frank (Butchie Bifocals) Bifulco put out open murder contracts on a crime baron and two of his enforcers he held responsible for the drug-related killing of his teenage stepson. Nobody collected, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. The government swooped in before
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October 23, 2020 – The sentence was stiff. It exceeded the recommended guidelines. That’s just the way it goes sometimes in the Philadelphia mafia, where the feds gun for their targets with a full clip no matter what. Philadelphia mob figure Joseph (Joey Electric) Servidio was sentenced to 15 years in federal court in New
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October 21, 2020 – The sight of the Buffalo underworld is all but a blur without Butchie Bifocals. Buffalo mafia captain Frank (Butchie Bifocals) Bifulco died of natural causes over the weekend at 76 years old. The jack-of-all-trades mobster will be remembered for being intelligent, innovative and uniquely entrepreneurial in his rackets. He allegedly ran
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October 18, 2020 – Slain Boston mobster Jimmy Limoli thought he was stealing from Francis (Frankie Boy) Salemme, Jr. not another higher-ranking mafia figure in the weeks before his murder 35 years ago, according to court records. The 25-year old Limoli was gunned down in Boston’s North End on October 28, 1985. Limoli and mob-prince-in-waiting
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