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A native of Calabria, Italy, Cufari was the boss of the Western Massachusetts operations and had logged more than a dozen arrests dating back to the 1920s, when he was shot by police while trying to run a bootlegging road block in Granby, Conneticut. Salvatore "Big Nose Sam" Cufari, died in 1983 of natural causes.

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  • Sam Cufari
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  • A native of Calabria, Italy, Cufari was the boss of the Western Massachusetts operations and had logged more than a dozen arrests dating back to the 1920s, when he was shot by police while trying to run a bootlegging road block in Granby, Conneticut. Salvatore "Big Nose Sam" Cufari, died in 1983 of natural causes.
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  • A native of Calabria, Italy, Cufari was the boss of the Western Massachusetts operations and had logged more than a dozen arrests dating back to the 1920s, when he was shot by police while trying to run a bootlegging road block in Granby, Conneticut. In 1924, Cufari was arrested on Christmas Eve for stabbing an Enfield, Conneticut, service station attendant, who later refused to identify Cufari as his assailant. No charges were brought, and that seemed to mark a pattern for “Big Nose Sam.” He was arrested and charged with myriad Mafia-related crimes over the course of six decades, but averted a prison sentence in all cases. His underlings over the years included the Frankie "Skyball" Scibelli and his brothers, Adolfo Bruno, Felix Tranghese and a collection of lesser-known soldiers and associates. Cufari was known for being on the stoic side as gangsters go. He didn’t exhibit either the flair of Skyball Scibelli or Bruno or the near-elegance of Baba Scibelli, but he wielded unchallenged power nonetheless. Cufari fought being stripped of his American citizenship in the 1950s when it was found that he attended the famed Apalachin summit of leading U.S. Mafia figures in New York state in 1957 and rebuffed a summons in 1972 from a U.S. Senate Committee that was probing an organized crime monopoly of cleaning products purchased by labor groups in Boston and New Jersey. Cufari and other gangsters were purportedly pushing the widespread sale of the locally manufactured “Poly-Clean” on unions to promote “labor peace,” according to witnesses. In the 1960's and 70's. Organized crime figures in Springfield had a foothold in more contemporary, traditional rackets: street lotteries, truck heists, illegal sports-betting and casino junkets, among others. Cufari suffered a stroke in the 1970s, but still lorded over his subordinates at Ciro’s, a well-known restaurant he ran on Main Street in the South End of Springfield, until his health plummeted. Salvatore "Big Nose Sam" Cufari, died in 1983 of natural causes.
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