 I'm into the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein. I'm coming at you with another quick hitter edition. Today, I want to talk about what's going on in Buffalo. We got that big Buffalo mafia, a racketeering conspiracy case coming up in two months, October of 2023, the alleged mafia don of Buffalo Big Dottadaro's nephew, Peter Jurassic Jr. strip club owner there and a retired DEA agent, Joe Bonjivani will be going on trial for racketeering, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, a lot of it coming out of Pharaoh's gentlemen's club, which is Jurassic Jr.'s strip joint in suburban Buffalo. Now, we've had three suspicious deaths tied to this case. We haven't had one juror selected, one piece of evidence submitted, one witness, you know, taking the oath that you're going to tell the truth and getting on the stand and delivering testimony, but we've had three people in the last four years pop up dead, two directly connected to the case and one tangentially connected possibly more. Right now in the last week, one of the star witnesses in this case died. She was, according to my sources, a stripper at Pharaoh's gentlemen's club, was very close to Peter Jurassic Jr. This is something that his own attorneys now admit. She was also the person that was intimidated and was tampered with. She back in March, her and her mother came out to their cars in the driveway of their residence and there were dead rats on the windshields of those cars. It was known that this woman was going to be a witness against Jurassic Jr. and Bon Giovanni, and this was in the court size a clear case of witness intimidation and witness tampering. Peter Jurassic at that point, Jr., Peter Jurassic Jr., had his bond violated and was locked up. He is now behind bars awaiting his trial in October. Joe Bon Giovanni is out on bond. They grew up together. Bon Giovanni, when he was indicted in 2019, he was indicted on, believe December or sorry, November 5th. He was indicted for his role in this. And the night before he was indicted, a local funeral home director by the name of Charles Duranty, a 43-year-old alleged mob associate of some sort, ended up dead face down in front of Robert's funeral home where he had ran the day-to-day affairs there. Witnesses saw him stagger out of the funeral home and collapsed face first down into a rainy puddle on the concrete. He was pronounced dead at a hospital hours later and eventually his death was ruled a suicide. We had the suicide of, suspicious suicide of New York Supreme Court judge, John Makulski, who was an unindicted co-conspirator in this case and committed suicide less than two weeks after his house was raided. Just came out in the last couple of months that he was an unindicted co-conspirator in this case and had a lot of connections to Jurassic Jr. and allegedly involved in possibly sex trafficking prostitution at the very least using some of those services or alleged services. And there are a lot of texts, a lot of correspondence between Makulski and Jurassic Jr. and there are a lot of rumors and innuendo allegations that Jurassic Jr. and his family, the Tadaros and then the possible connection to the Magadino crime family, the Buffalo mafia, the Tadaros have never been convicted of any federal crimes. Neither Big Joe Tadaro, who is 77 right now, runs the Lenova Pizza and Wing Empire, has never been convicted of a federal crime, but the feds still claim that he is the godfather of Western New York. Just like his dad before him, Led Pipe Joe died about 10 years ago from the 1980s into the 2010s, the FBI considered Led Pipe Joe the godfather and we don't have any proof of that in a federal court. So they're innocent until proven guilty, but there are a lot of rumors connected to that family and that alleged mafia empire that goes along with that legitimate restaurant franchise empire. And there are a lot of, there's a lot of word that there are a lot of ties into the police department, federal government, federal law enforcement judges and people that make legislation and that they're protected. And you had a situation where Mikulski allegedly commits suicide. Before he commits suicide, before that raid, he had attempted to commit suicide by allegedly jumping in front of a train. The Durante death in 2019, 10, 12 hours before Banji Avani is indicted ruled a suicide. And now we have the FBI and Buffalo Police investigating this stripper, star witnesses death this past week. And they have to declare whether it's foul play or is it another suicide, another suspicious suicide. The attorneys for Jurassic Junior are claiming that she committed suicide and that the suicide was a result of the mental anguish and stress that come from the government pressing her to cooperate and testify against Jurassic Junior. One of the things that we're being told that she was going to testify to was that Jurassic Junior bragged the people at the strip club that he was a made member of the mafia, that he had a lot of deep connections into law enforcement and into the judicial system and that he leveraged those narratives for his business. So she won't be testifying and it definitely makes you scratch your head about what's going on here. Like I said at the beginning, there's been no official court proceedings related to this trial yet. A lot of legal maneuvering over the last couple of years, Banji Avani indicted in 2019, Jurassic Junior indicted in 2021. But we haven't started jury selection. There has not been opening arguments and we have three dead bodies. It's very suspicious and something that we're going to be keeping our eye on here. Rest in peace to all three of those people. Whatever Mikulski was doing, it's still sad that his life had to end that way. And it seems like with Duranty and this witness, their lives were just cut way too short. These were young people. Duranty was only 43. Mikulski I believe was in the 60s. This witness was in her 20s. And it's just a tragic, tragic outcome. And it's something that is incredibly, it smells bad. And it smells really bad. And it makes you, in retrospect, this family went dark for a long time. And there was a lot of questions about whether or not they existed. And this to me is a snapshot. And if you're going to believe that these aren't coincidences, and I don't believe in coincidences, and you're going to believe that these deaths are all suspicious, which I do. This is why that this modern form of the Magadino crime family, the new millennium Magadinos have been able to fade into the shadows and go, you know, samurai ninja style where they exist but, you know, they're as stealth as can be and are able to veil themselves. If you believe the federal investigators able to veil themselves as, or at least the top of that family with the Tadaros, veil themselves as, you know, these, these fun loving, happy go lucky pizza entrepreneurs who have deals with the NHL and the NFL and legitimate multimillionaire and an amazing franchise from a business perspective really helps spread the buffalo wing trend that is now, you know, every restaurant, every bar has buffalo wings. Well, if it wasn't for Lenova 40 years ago, we wouldn't even know what buffalo wings were outside of Western New York. So, but the fact they were able to stay so beneath the radar until more recently, I think the fact that people's, people can be snuffed out, people can be living one day and have information against this group that could be damning and the next day they're no longer living and, and we don't know why. And if it's deemed a suicide, it's a suicide, but I think you got to put air quotes around it. There are a lot of questions. So we'll keep you updated on what's going on in Buffalo. That trial is slated to begin, I believe October 23rd, third, third week of October, they've already had a judge, a change of judge, judge Sinatra had to recuse himself. He claimed that the defense was kind of gaming him out of the picture because they didn't like his rulings. You have a new judge that is putting that firm October 23rd date. And then you have right now another defense attorney that's looking to remove himself from the case, claiming irreconcilable differences with his client. You had another defense attorney that, that dropped out earlier this year. It's a real three-ring circus over there, but we'll see what happens in October for Benny behind the glass. We'll be back later this week with a full length edition of the OG pod. I'm Scott Bernstein, OG pod out.