by stubbs » Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:22 pm
antimafia wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:26 pm
antimafia wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 11:22 pm
More about Project Windfall:
PROJECT WINDFALL
Windfall was a Part VI investigation into illegal sports betting and the distribution of illegal gambling machines. The project targeted the Musitano Organized Crime Family in the Hamilton and Niagara Falls area. At the conclusion of the investigation, officers were able to use information gathered off the lines to lay charges against several well- known TOC figures and several other associates.
All charged parties were convicted of bookmaking. The investigation also lead to 15 illegal gaming house warrants being executed. Forty more individuals were charged with various gambling offences in relation to the gaming houses. Investigators also gathered information that assisted Project "Expiate" investigators and was used to convict members of the family with two homicides related to the Papalias, prominent crime family members from the Hamilton area. Investigators believe the homicides were the result of a turf war related to the gambling trade.
Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC) presented the Ontario Illegal Gaming Enforcement Unit a Mark of Excellence award in recognition of the unit's dedication and leadership in combating organized crime in relation to project "Expiate" at their annual conference in Ottawa in the fall of 1999.
Source:
https://prism.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/han ... sequence=1, p. 11.
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The first Project Scopa investigation determined that John Papalia was paying tribute, derived from illicit gambling profits, to Vito Rizzuto — was tribute paid by Ontario-based Buffalo Family members even after Papalia’s murder in 1997? in 1996 while Project Windfall was going on? before 1996?
Murder of a Mob boss: 'We’re going to move mountains together'
https://www.thespec.com/opinion/columni ... 4782a.html
Good articles, but nothing really new. Also, the author seems to be confused about how the mafia is structured. In one sentence he’s calling Papalia a Hamilton mob boss and Carmen Barillaro an underboss. I think they were members in the Buffalo family, right?
Then, he describes the Musitanos, Luppinos-Violis, and Papalia groups as three separate crime familes. If they’re separate crimes families, why would Papalia turn over his gambling rackets to the Musitanos? Clearly they’re separate blood families, and the full picture of everyone’s LCN alliance isn’t clear.
Giuseppe “Joey” and Domenico “Dom,” are members of what is viewed as Hamilton’s current and only traditional organized crime group left in Hamilton — aptly referred to as the Violi-Luppino crime family
No mention that Dom Violi is the underboss of the Buffalo family, and Joey is made too (either Buffalo or Bonanno), instead just pretending that they’re members of a non-existent “Violi-Luppino family”.
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More about Project Windfall:
PROJECT WINDFALL
Windfall was a Part VI investigation into illegal sports betting and the distribution of illegal gambling machines. The project targeted the Musitano Organized Crime Family in the Hamilton and Niagara Falls area. At the conclusion of the investigation, officers were able to use information gathered off the lines to lay charges against several well- known TOC figures and several other associates.
All charged parties were convicted of bookmaking. The investigation also lead to 15 illegal gaming house warrants being executed. Forty more individuals were charged with various gambling offences in relation to the gaming houses. Investigators also gathered information that assisted Project "Expiate" investigators and was used to convict members of the family with two homicides related to the Papalias, prominent crime family members from the Hamilton area. Investigators believe the homicides were the result of a turf war related to the gambling trade.
Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC) presented the Ontario Illegal Gaming Enforcement Unit a Mark of Excellence award in recognition of the unit's dedication and leadership in combating organized crime in relation to project "Expiate" at their annual conference in Ottawa in the fall of 1999.
Source: https://prism.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/handle/1880/47424/moodie.pdf;jsessionid=C5EA6DFAA5DECCF15AE38CA3C1921BD3?sequence=1, p. 11.
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The first Project Scopa investigation determined that John Papalia was paying tribute, derived from illicit gambling profits, to Vito Rizzuto — was tribute paid by Ontario-based Buffalo Family members even after Papalia’s murder in 1997? in 1996 while Project Windfall was going on? before 1996?
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Murder of a Mob boss: 'We’re going to move mountains together'
https://www.thespec.com/opinion/columnists/murder-of-a-mob-boss-we-re-going-to-move-mountains-together/article_e522b80d-7965-5710-97df-2ec4bf74782a.html
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Good articles, but nothing really new. Also, the author seems to be confused about how the mafia is structured. In one sentence he’s calling Papalia a Hamilton mob boss and Carmen Barillaro an underboss. I think they were members in the Buffalo family, right?
Then, he describes the Musitanos, Luppinos-Violis, and Papalia groups as three separate crime familes. If they’re separate crimes families, why would Papalia turn over his gambling rackets to the Musitanos? Clearly they’re separate blood families, and the full picture of everyone’s LCN alliance isn’t clear.
[quote] Giuseppe “Joey” and Domenico “Dom,” are members of what is viewed as Hamilton’s current and only traditional organized crime group left in Hamilton — aptly referred to as the Violi-Luppino crime family[/quote]
No mention that Dom Violi is the underboss of the Buffalo family, and Joey is made too (either Buffalo or Bonanno), instead just pretending that they’re members of a non-existent “Violi-Luppino family”.