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Founded | c. 1950s |
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Founders | Buffalo crime family |
Founding location | Rochester, New York, United States |
Years active | c. 1950s–1993[1] |
Territory | Primarily the Rochester metropolitan area, with additional territory throughout Western New York |
Ethnicity | Italians as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates |
Activities | Racketeering, loansharking, extortion, prostitution and gambling |
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The Rochester crime family, also known as the Valenti crime family or the Rochester Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Rochester, New York that was part of the American Cosa Nostra.