Buffalo in the 90s: Buffalo’s FBI informant blowing smoke

By Steve Cichon
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When the FBI turned to Buffalo’s Joe Sacco to help take down organized crime in Buffalo, they must have had some inkling of what they were getting into.

Sacco, after all, was the same mob associate who, when discovered in a pool of blood by police, denied knowing that he’d been shot.

Twenty-five years ago this week, federal law enforcers were looking to pull back a deal with Sacco, who they say had not only been giving them ever-changing information but was also still involved in the underworld crime syndicate as it operated in Buffalo and Western New York.

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Steve Cichon

Steve Cichon writes about Buffalo’s pop culture history. His stories of Buffalo's past have appeared more than 1600 times in The Buffalo News. He's a proud Buffalonian helping the world experience the city he loves. Since the earliest days of the internet, Cichon's been creating content celebrating the people, places, and ideas that make Buffalo unique and special. The 25-year veteran of Buffalo radio and television has written five books and curates The Buffalo Stories Archives-- hundreds of thousands of books, images, and audio/visual media which tell the stories of who we are in Western New York.