By the early 1960s, longtime Buffalo crime family Boss, Stefano "The Undertaker" Magaddino had begun to plan his retirement and left running of the day to day activities of his crime family in the hands of Acting Boss, "Freddie Lupo/the Wolf" Frederico Randaccio. Joseph Todaro, known as "Lead Pipe Joe" to his crime family associates was a top crime family capo who reportedly controlled bookmaking operations for "The Arm" with his son, Joseph "Big Joe" Todaro, Jr., brother and crime family soldier, Richard Todaro. "Lead Pipe Joe" Todaro was a big earner for the Buffalo crime family with interests in bookmaking, card and dice games, loansharking, Las Vegas junkets and labor rackets and reported directly to Freddie Randaccio. In the 1960s and 1970s the Buffalo crime family used the Blue Banne