Editing Detroit crime family (section)

==Later Tocco era and federal prosecution==
Jack Tocco became a central later leader. In the 1990s, federal prosecutors charged Tocco, Anthony Corrado and others in a RICO case involving the Detroit branch of La Cosa Nostra.

The Sixth Circuit described a twenty-five-count indictment concerning the defendants' alleged involvement in the “Detroit branch” of the national Mafia and recorded convictions of Jack Tocco and Anthony Corrado on two RICO conspiracy counts.<ref name="ToccoAppeal">[https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/227/543/615126/ ''United States v. Corrado'', 227 F.3d 543] (6th Cir. 2000).</ref> The decision supplies firmer evidence than reputation-based press labels because it records actual convictions and appellate rulings.

A United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime case summary likewise states that the indictment alleged Tocco had been boss of the Detroit Cosa Nostra family since approximately 1979.<ref>[https://www.unodc.org/cld/en/case-law-doc/criminalgroupcrimetype/usa/2000/united_states_v_tocco.html “United States v. Tocco”], UNODC SHERLOC case-law database.</ref> The allegation of a specific leadership start date is attributed to the indictment rather than treated as an independently proven succession fact.