Editing Buffalo crime family (section)

==Stefano Magaddino and Brooklyn ties==
Stefano Magaddino came from Castellammare del Golfo and belonged to the extended [[Magaddino family|Magaddino]] and [[Bonventre family|Bonventre]] kinship environment. In Brooklyn, police arrested him after Bartolo Fontana's 1921 accusations in the [[Good Killers Gang|Good Killers]] case; he was released when the evidence was judged insufficient.<ref name="GoodKillers">Thomas Hunt and Michael A. Tona, [https://mafiahistory.us/a014/f_goodkillers.html “The Good Killers: 1921's Glimpse of the Mafia”].</ref>

Magaddino relocated to western New York and became leader after DiCarlo's death in 1922. David Critchley calls him the “Castellammaresi Buffalo Mafia chieftain” and places Buffalo inside an interstate web of hometown and kinship relationships linking Brooklyn, Detroit, Philadelphia and other cities.<ref name="Critchley">David Critchley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA214 ''The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931''] (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 214–230.</ref>

Joseph Bonanno later portrayed Brooklyn, Buffalo and Detroit as descending from a common ancestral Castellammaresi organization. That retrospective claim is useful evidence of fraternal memory but does not prove that Schiro appointed Buffalo's leaders or exercised routine operational command. The narrower evidence supports migration, kinship, individual movement and cooperation among independent local borgate.