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What do Cadillacs, Buicks, Chryslers and Lincolns all have in common? They were the cars of choice for the modern mobster in Buffalo and Niagara Falls. The status symbol of driving an expensive, high-powered car proved to many that you were somebody to be reckoned with. That is, unless you ended up in the trunk. Take John Cammilleri for instance. He was a major player in the Magaddino family dating back to the 1940s. By 1974 he was an elder statesman and wanted a plumb union job. When he complained after not receiving one, his ride to Roseland restaurant in his late model Buick on May 8, 1974 was his last. He was gunned down in front of the restaurant after attending a wake. It was his 63rd birthday. Or how about Charles Gerass, who left for a business meeting in 1965 with a top mobster and was found dead in the trunk of a car. Several others met their fate and ended up in the trunk over the years. Going back some years and crossing to Buffalo
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