by antimafia » Mon Jun 17, 2019 12:49 pm
Guy Panepinto's parents are Vincenzo and Rosalia. I've never tried to trace the parents' ancestry; I don't know Rosalia's maiden name. The surname Panepinto is fairly prevalent in Agrigento, but I suspect there haven't been many North American mobsters bearing that last name. Panepinto's wife's maiden name is Czaplinski.
When Timothy Appleby of the Globe and Mail wrote about Guy's death three days after the fact (DOD: Oct. 3, 2000), Appleby wrote that Panepinto's "links stretched from Sicily to Montreal and Hamilton, and probably far beyond."
Before Panepinto became well known via the media for running a Toronto-based discount-coffin business, which Appleby wrote was reportedly owned by Vito Rizzuto, Panepinto was known for running Rhino's Gym, also in Toronto, out of which high-volume drug dealing occurred. Many bikers worked out at Rhino's, as Guy hung out with bikers a lot. When Juan Ramon Fernandez, aka Joe Bravo, was sent by Rizzuto from Montreal to operate in Toronto, Bravo reported to Panepinto. Bravo frequently visited Rhino's Gym, where he would have encountered Constantin “Big Gus” Alevizos, who was murdered in 2008, and we may recall that one theory about Alevizos's murder is payback for having stolen after Panepinto's murder a large bag full of cash that belonged to the Rizzutos. Panepinto had contact with Pat Musitano in April 1997 -- some six months before the two of them met with Rizzuto in Ontario -- which was one month before John Papalia was murdered at the end of May of that year.
Apart from Panepinto having ties to Bonannos in the Montreal Mafia and their associates, he had ties to other Sicilian mafiosi. When Giacinto Arcuri was waiting many years for his trial in relation to the charge he had murdered Buffalo Family member Enio Mora, who was close to Papalia, police believed Panepinto was an accomplice to the murder. Some 27 months after Panepinto was killed, he was in the news again when a liquor licence was controversially granted to a nightclub north of Toronto that was believed to have Hells Angels-and-mafia involvement, with loans for the club coming from an Ontario numbered company whose president was a Giuseppe Cuntrera, as drawings/plans for the club had been found in the murdered Panepinto's car. Recall, as well, that Project R.I.P., the large investigation that began after Panepinto was killed, (the name was a nod to Panepinto's line of business), eventually gave rise to Project Colisée.
Back in September 1991, when Panepinto was charged with eight other men in a bungled bomb plot, one of those charged was a 34-year-old Rosario Cammalleri. This Cammalleri is possibly a first cousin to Vito Rizzuto's wife, as Ross would have turned 34 in May of that year.
Guy Panepinto's parents are Vincenzo and Rosalia. I've never tried to trace the parents' ancestry; I don't know Rosalia's maiden name. The surname [i]Panepinto[/i] is fairly prevalent in Agrigento, but I suspect there haven't been many North American mobsters bearing that last name. Panepinto's wife's maiden name is Czaplinski.
When Timothy Appleby of the [i]Globe and Mail[/i] wrote about Guy's death three days after the fact (DOD: Oct. 3, 2000), Appleby wrote that Panepinto's "links stretched from Sicily to Montreal and Hamilton, and probably far beyond."
Before Panepinto became well known via the media for running a Toronto-based discount-coffin business, which Appleby wrote was reportedly owned by Vito Rizzuto, Panepinto was known for running Rhino's Gym, also in Toronto, out of which high-volume drug dealing occurred. Many bikers worked out at Rhino's, as Guy hung out with bikers a lot. When Juan Ramon Fernandez, aka Joe Bravo, was sent by Rizzuto from Montreal to operate in Toronto, Bravo reported to Panepinto. Bravo frequently visited Rhino's Gym, where he would have encountered Constantin “Big Gus” Alevizos, who was murdered in 2008, and we may recall that one theory about Alevizos's murder is payback for having stolen after Panepinto's murder a large bag full of cash that belonged to the Rizzutos. Panepinto had contact with Pat Musitano in April 1997 -- some six months before the two of them met with Rizzuto in Ontario -- which was one month before John Papalia was murdered at the end of May of that year.
Apart from Panepinto having ties to Bonannos in the Montreal Mafia and their associates, he had ties to other Sicilian mafiosi. When Giacinto Arcuri was waiting many years for his trial in relation to the charge he had murdered Buffalo Family member Enio Mora, who was close to Papalia, police believed Panepinto was an accomplice to the murder. Some 27 months after Panepinto was killed, he was in the news again when a liquor licence was controversially granted to a nightclub north of Toronto that was believed to have Hells Angels-and-mafia involvement, with loans for the club coming from an Ontario numbered company whose president was a Giuseppe Cuntrera, as drawings/plans for the club had been found in the murdered Panepinto's car. Recall, as well, that Project R.I.P., the large investigation that began after Panepinto was killed, (the name was a nod to Panepinto's line of business), eventually gave rise to Project Colisée.
Back in September 1991, when Panepinto was charged with eight other men in a bungled bomb plot, one of those charged was a 34-year-old Rosario Cammalleri. This Cammalleri is possibly a first cousin to Vito Rizzuto's wife, as Ross would have turned 34 in May of that year.