Six years later, Valenti devised the "Columbus Day bombings" as false flag operations to draw heat away from the crime family.
[1] Valenti hoped police would consider the bombings the work of anti-war activists and militants and focus attention away from organized crime.
[2] The bombings spree began on Columbus Day, October 12, when a group of five bombs damaged the Rochester federal building, the Monroe County office building, two predominantly black storefront churches, and the private home of Dick Clark, an official with Local 832 of the trade union International Union of Operating Engineers.
[3] On October 27, explosions within six minutes of each another damaged two Orthodox Jewish synagogues in Rochester, Light of Israel Sephardic Center and Congregation Beth Sholom.
[3] At 12:40am, a fuse bomb using a substantial amount of dynamite destroyed the back of Temple Beth Am, the third synagogue attacked in the previous 10 days.