Luppino crime family
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The Luppino crime family, (Italian: [lupˈpiːno]) also known as the Luppino-Violi crime family,[2] is an 'Ndrangheta organized crime family[3][4][5] based and founded in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in the 1950s by Giacomo Luppino. The Luppino family is one of three centralized Mafia organizations in Hamilton, with the other two being the Musitano crime family and the Papalia crime family.[6] The Luppinos have had strong connections with the Buffalo crime family of Buffalo, New York.[7]
Founded | 1956 |
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Founder | Giacomo Luppino |
Founding location | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
Years active | 1950s–present |
Territory | Southern Ontario |
Ethnicity | Italians as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates |
Activities | Racketeering, loan sharking, money laundering, fraud, murder, gambling, drug trafficking, extortion and corruption |
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By 2018, the Violis had an increased role in the organization, particularly Domenico and Giuseppe Violi, the sons of Montreal mob boss Paolo Violi who had married into the Luppino family through Giacomo's daughter. Domenico had reportedly been made the underboss of the Buffalo crime family and one of his duties was to "assume control over the operations of the Luppino-Violi crime family". By late 2018, however, both brothers were imprisoned for drug trafficking offenses. Brothers Natale and Rocco Luppino are believed to be the leaders of the Hamilton-based organisation. In recent times the Luppino crime family has fallen under the control of the Buffalo crime family and is now believed to be the Buffalo family's Canadian crew.[7]