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Yea anti, nephew or niece here means your brother or sister's child.

[quote="Lupara"][quote="antimafia"]Domenico Manno's son is Vito's first cousin.


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Is there a difference? Here in the Netherlands it means exactly the same.[/quote]

I do understand to what you're referring because, in a number of languages, a single word can signify different relatives. For example, in Italian, "nipote" means [i]nephew, niece, grandchild, grandson,[/i] and [i]granddaughter[/i].

But I'm fairly certain that in countries where English predominates, when you refer in [i]English [/i]to your nephew, you are talking either about the son of your sister or brother, or the son of your brother-in-law or sister-in-law.

Who is this Emanuele Rizzuto mentiond on page 1 of this thread?

[quote="antimafia"]Domenico Manno's son is Vito's first cousin.


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Is there a difference? Here in the Netherlands it means exactly the same.

What do you think will happen when some more of the big dogs get out of prison, names escape me at the moment, but there was an article fearing more bloodshed when they get out.

Domenico Manno's son is Vito's first cousin.


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Robbert Manno, son of Domenico, is also a nephew of Rizzuto.

Vito Rizzuto had only one nephew: Calogero Renda (Paolo's son).

Vito's wife, Giovanna, has no siblings; therefore, she and Vito didn't have any nephews or nieces other than Paolo and Maria Renda's children, i,e., Calogero and Domenica.


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[quote="Giacomo_Vacari"]Leo Rizzuto is legit, all he is doing is being an in house counselor for members of the family. From what I can tell, Rocco Sollecito is part of a ruling panel. The two likely successors to Vito Rizzuto throne, are Rocco son Stefano, and Vito nephew Emanuele Rizzuto. My 2 cents.[/quote]

I could agree with either of the two. I've been one that thought all along Leo was not on a ruling panel nor was he a threat for being the boss. Other than helping and advising his father on business deals, we've yet to see anything that shows him being active within the family on other matters.

Honestly I think Rocco was either offered the top spot or Vito knew he wouldn't take it and offered to give it to Stefano.

Leo Rizzuto is legit, all he is doing is being an in house counselor for members of the family. From what I can tell, Rocco Sollecito is part of a ruling panel. The two likely successors to Vito Rizzuto throne, are Rocco son Stefano, and Vito nephew Emanuele Rizzuto. My 2 cents.

I still don't believe Leonardo is a part of this ruling panel. I'm still on board with the Sollecito's running things up there. Until I see some hard proof Leo is involved I call bullshit.

[quote="B."]Is there reason to believe that Leo Rizzuto is now part of the organization?[/quote]

Leonardo's supposed role in the mafia roundtable is not specified in the joint investigative reporting by the [i]Le Journal de Montréal[/i] newspaper and the [i]J.E.[/i] TV program--investigation was conducted in the last few months, the culmination of which was the two articles written by Félix Séguin yesterday and the TV segment that aired last evening. Here is the video link to the TV segment:

http://tva.canoe.ca/cgi-bin/player/player_preroll.pl?titre=Reportage%20J.E.&emission=je&video=4110320575001&reseau=TVA&sectionlevel=&sectionvaleur=&player=43787007001&publisher=43787007001&width=480&height=306

Warning: The beginning of the segment is very, very cheesy.

The journalist (Félix Séguin) and the TV program undertook a big risk in alleging that Leonardo is somehow a part of the Montreal Mafia. I think a lot of people working in Canadian media learned from the experience of [i]The Sixth Family[/i] co-authors, who were sued by Leonardo and his sister, Bettina, for defamation. I'm fairly certain the reason we never read about the settlement of the case is that the claim in the book about a lawyers' division of the Rizzuto organization had [i]lawsuit [/i]and [i]damages awarded[/i] written all over it.

Here are links to the back-to-back French-language articles written by journalist Félix Séguin:

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2015/03/12/un-groupe-dindividus-aurait-succede-a-vito-rizzuto-a-la-tete-de-la-mafia

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2015/03/13/la-table-de-la-mafia-montrealaise



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[quote="B."]Is there reason to believe that Leo Rizzuto is now part of the organization?[/quote]

There was an article awhile back that said leo was on some type of ruling panel running the organization, no idea if its true though.

Is there reason to believe that Leo Rizzuto is now part of the organization?

Link to tweet:

http://t.co/WoYC1JNtf0

Tweet:

J.E. (@JE_enquete)
3/13/2015, 7:06 PM
Stefano Sollecito, Liborio Cuntrera, Nicola Spagnolo, Vito Salvaggio, Leo Rizzuto et Rocco Sollecito #JETVA #mafia pic.twitter.com/WoYC1JNtf0


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