Domenico Violi is a salesman, husband, father of two and a popular figure in the Italian community that makes up much of Hamilton, Ont. Violi is also the self-described underboss of the Buffalo Mafia.

So who is Joe Todaro and why do the feds claim he runs the Buffalo Mafia? A wedding right out of the movies The FBI has claimed in court documents that Todaro’s father and, later, Todaro took control ...

Just four years ago, the FBI chief in Buffalo said the Mafia here was all but dead. “Some of the individuals who were leaders of the Mafia are still around,” said Adam S. Cohen, then special agent in ...