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antimafia wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 9:51 am

antimafia wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 2:07 pm

antimafia wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2025 10:30 am Cross-posting. Please see viewtopic.php?t=12977
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From Calabria to Canada: Explosive New Crave Original Docuseries, MAFIA: MOST WANTED, Premieres March 7
https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press ... s-march-7/

Crave Original | Mafia: Most Wanted | Official Trailer
https://youtu.be/tgIe5Ob5dfI

I didn't watch the first episode till yesterday (March 9). The 3-part series, with episodes of 1 hr. each, will focus mostly on the Commissos of the Greater Toronto Area, but the first episode also dealt in part with Paul Volpe.

Do TBHF posters want me and other viewers to provide notes here or in the thread found at viewtopic.php?t=12977 (TV & MOVIES)?

B. wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 2:36 pm I only check this section, charts, and photos so here is good. Thank you!

All,

Episode 2 of the Mafia: Most Wanted docuseries is airing tonight, as is the single J.E TV episode in which Quebec-based journalist Félix Séguin travels to Cattolica Eraclea to explore why the dominant Italian crime group in Quebec has been weakened and why Sicilians in Sicily might have offered to help the Rizzuto clan in its battles, given Leonardo Rizzuto travelled to Sicily at some point after the attempt on his life.

Given I won't have time to provide a full summary and specific details of Episode 1 of the docuseries before tonight -- but I will still provide such a summary and details in due course -- here are just a few notes I jotted down that were of interest to me and, I hope, to other posters:

* The episode appears to emphasize that Rocco Remo Commisso has been the leader of the Commisso crime group in the Greater Toronto Area, not Cosimo. [This does not jibe with what organized-crime writer Lee Lamothe has written: that Remo was thought to be the leader, but it is in fact Cosimo.] One person in the episode said that Cosimo was like a "maid." [I'll provide the exact quote later, as well as who said it.]

* Cecil Kirby, the outlaw biker who turned police agent that helped law enforcement, among other things, protect Paul Volpe from being killed by the Commissos, surprisingly calls Peter Scarcella a Judas for betraying Volpe.

* Chuck Yanover, a Canadian Jewish criminal who was in Volpe's crime group, said that he was like -- or would be considered -- a capo in Volpe's group. [I will later provide the exact quote.]

* Legendary cop Ron Sandelli (Ret.) makes at least a couple of appearances in this episode. [I was told two years ago that he was in ill health, as I wanted to contact him to see whether he'd be willing to divulge why he has asserted that Paul Volpe was not a made guy. Sandelli doesn't discuss Volpe's rank in the program -- I mention Sandelli only because, if he's in good health, I'll try to find out how to reach him.]

* The following DOBs for Cosimo and Remo are respectively shown in Subject Profile Information Sheets from their police files: Feb. 2, 1945; June 29, 1946. [The DOB for Remo differs from the June 21, 1946 often cited.]

* Cecil Kirby also says that Cosimo was a "professional ballroom dancer" and that that is how Cosimo met his wife. [Cosimo's wife, Vivian Risi, is a very high-powered Greater Toronto Area realtor. I'll try to find out from someone who appears in the show whether Kirby was pulling the producers' leg.]

* Joe Ferraro, who will appear in episode 2, is briefly mentioned in episode 1, where he is said to have become an enforcer for the Commisso group in 1996. [I'm fairly certain the following Jul. 21, 2011 article to which I've linked would have been posted on the previous incarnation of TBHF or on the defunct RealDeal forum: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ho ... land-alive.]

* Chuck Yanover, a Canadian Jewish criminal who was in Volpe's crime group, said that he was like -- or would be considered -- a capo in Volpe's group. [I will later provide the exact quote.]

antimafia wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 2:07 pm

antimafia wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2025 10:30 am Cross-posting. Please see viewtopic.php?t=12977
————
From Calabria to Canada: Explosive New Crave Original Docuseries, MAFIA: MOST WANTED, Premieres March 7
https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press ... s-march-7/

Crave Original | Mafia: Most Wanted | Official Trailer
https://youtu.be/tgIe5Ob5dfI

I didn't watch the first episode till yesterday (March 9). The 3-part series, with episodes of 1 hr. each, will focus mostly on the Commissos of the Greater Toronto Area, but the first episode also dealt in part with Paul Volpe.

Do TBHF posters want me and other viewers to provide notes here or in the thread found at viewtopic.php?t=12977 (TV & MOVIES)?

B. wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 2:36 pm I only check this section, charts, and photos so here is good. Thank you!

antimafia wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2025 10:30 am Cross-posting. Please see viewtopic.php?t=12977
————
From Calabria to Canada: Explosive New Crave Original Docuseries, MAFIA: MOST WANTED, Premieres March 7
https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press ... s-march-7/

Crave Original | Mafia: Most Wanted | Official Trailer
https://youtu.be/tgIe5Ob5dfI

antimafia wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 3:03 pm

antimafia wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 8:53 am

Cheech wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:50 am This has become a true crime thread. When mafia?

In my opinion, when we learn which organized-crime group or which member of organized crime might have been responsible for hiring

1. alleged MS-13 members to kill someone in a sleepy village located about a 30 min. drive from Toronto's northwest boundary

2. one of these alleged MS-13 members to allegedly kill Francesco Del Balso in Laval, Quebec

3. up to four (4) men from Ontario to kill Moreno Gallo's daughter-in-law in Montreal, a woman who has ancestry from the Rizzutos' hometown in Sicily

When we learn why Davide Barberio of Quebec has criminal matters in Ontario that are being heard in the same Newmarket courthouse where the matters for the alleged MS-13 members are being heard, we might also have an idea whether and how the Italian underworld in one or both provinces is involved.

The trial for some of the seven individuals accused of involvement in the mistaken-idenity drive-by shooting in the Greater Toronto Area will commence in about 12 months' time. The timeline for the trial scheduling has to do with the Jordan decision deadline.

One of the seven accused, Carlos Pena Torrez, continues to make court appearances in Laval for his mistaken-idenity drive-by shooting there, where the alleged real target was Francesco Del Balso.

antimafia wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 8:32 pm ^^^^
Only Joyce Li of the Toronto Star has reported on it.

The restaurant opened last October 23. Its previous incarnation was La Bella Italia in Maple, which closed last June 30.

I won’t share details yet of what I’ve been told and what I’ve learned, but most of them are easy to obtain by googling the restaurant names, the chefs’ names, and the newer restaurant’s address in Nobleton.

I have corporate information for the newer restaurant but I won’t share the information.

Like others who are closely following this incident, I do suspect that Italian organized crime is involved in this tragedy.