During the 1960s and 1970s, Randaccio's base of operations was the Blue Banner Social Club, located on Prospect Ave.
[1] On March 13, 1982, Todaro Sr. was involved in a large brawl outside of the Buffalo Playboy Club while trying to help Daniel Sansanese, Jr.[6] According to FBI logs, Todaro Sr. conducted mob affairs and meetings from local hotel rooms and VIP rooms out of the Executive Inn, the 747s disco, and the old Playboy Club, which all were located near the Greater Buffalo International Airport in Cheektowaga, New York.
[1] In 1989, an FBI statement was filed in connection with a gambling investigation, identifying Todaro Sr. and his son, Todaro Jr., as the leaders of a Buffalo Mafia family consisting of 45 "made" members that was in control of various criminal activities, including labor racketeering, bookmaking, loansharking, and narcotics trafficking.
[8][7][9][10] It was also stated that Leonard F. Falzone was running a local loansharking operation, while brothers Victor and Daniel Sansanese were controlling bookmaking for the Todaros.
[1] In late 1996, Los Angeles crime family Underboss Carmen Milano reached out to Todaro Sr. about joining forces to take over a loansharking and auto insurance fraud racket in Las Vegas controlled by Herbert Blitzstein, a Chicago Outfit associate.
[13] The charges were based on the testimony of Ronald M. Fino, a former business manager of Local 210, who became an FBI informant.
[15] He founded La Nova Pizzeria in 1957, which grew from one small West Side restaurant to a multimillion-dollar business that sells frozen chicken wings, pizzas and hot sauces.