Ha. Hysterical.antimafia wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 3:14 pm Judge rules rights violated, acquits alleged mobster Leonardo Rizzuto
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local- ... o-rizzuto/
Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era
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SonnyBlackstein
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Re: Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era
Don't give me your f***ing Manson lamps.
Re: Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era
Un juge ordonne l'expulsion de l'ex-associé de la mafia Michele Torre
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/just ... -torre.php
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/just ... -torre.php
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Relation to Giuseppe Torre?antimafia wrote:Un juge ordonne l'expulsion de l'ex-associé de la mafia Michele Torre
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/just ... -torre.php
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I don't think so but I'm not sure. I have my doubts because I think the relation of one to the other would have come out a some point.Lupara wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 2:30 pmRelation to Giuseppe Torre?antimafia wrote:Un juge ordonne l'expulsion de l'ex-associé de la mafia Michele Torre
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/just ... -torre.php
I have always wondered whether Achille Torre is related to Giuseppe, who was the business partner of Ray Kanho/Kahno, but again, I think the relation of these two Torres would also have been revealed at some point.
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Age wise this Michele Torre could be Giuseppe Torre's uncle. If it was his father it would've likely been revealed and there's a mere 20 years difference so he would've been quite young for a father, even back in those days.antimafia wrote:I don't think so but I'm not sure. I have my doubts because I think the relation of one to the other would have come out a some point.Lupara wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 2:30 pmRelation to Giuseppe Torre?antimafia wrote:Un juge ordonne l'expulsion de l'ex-associé de la mafia Michele Torre
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/just ... -torre.php
I have always wondered whether Achille Torre is related to Giuseppe, who was the business partner of Ray Kanho/Kahno, but again, I think the relation of these two Torres would also have been revealed at some point.
Re: Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era
^^^^
Possible.
I dug up a November 3, 2009 article by Paul Cherry of the Montreal Gazette. The story states that Achille is Giuseppe's brother.
Possible.
I dug up a November 3, 2009 article by Paul Cherry of the Montreal Gazette. The story states that Achille is Giuseppe's brother.
Re: Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era
More on Michele Torre's deportation:
Quebec man facing deportation to Italy two decades after Mafia-linked conviction
http://ctv.news/gqJq27T
Quebec man facing deportation to Italy two decades after Mafia-linked conviction
http://ctv.news/gqJq27T
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Re: Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era
is he giuseppe torre's father?
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Michele Torre will not be deported after all -- see French-language story to which I've linked below.antimafia wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 4:05 pm More on Michele Torre's deportation:
Quebec man facing deportation to Italy two decades after Mafia-linked conviction
http://ctv.news/gqJq27T
L'ancien associé de la mafia Michele Torre ne sera pas expulsé
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/just ... xpulse.php
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Quebec man facing deportation to Italy more than 20 years after Mafia-linked drug conviction gets reprieve
https://torontosun.com/news/crime/q...c ... 1cae67bb5/
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Quebec man facing deportation to Italy more than 20 years after Mafia-linked drug conviction gets reprieve
https://torontosun.com/news/crime/q...c ... 1cae67bb5/
Re: Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era
Link below is to French-language article; some of you may not be even be able to read it.
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2019/ ... _f93eDiV5s
Translation (using Google Translate):
Laval mafioso claims $ 426,000 to the government.
He sued prison authorities for illegal detentions.
ÉRIC THIBAULT
Le Journal de Montréal
Friday, March 1, 2019 8:34 pm
UPDATE Friday, March 1, 2019 8:34 pm
Mafioso Francesco Del Balso claims nearly half a million dollars to the federal correctional service for "illegally" incarcerating him after the murders of two of his acolytes.
In his lawsuit filed Wednesday in Superior Court, Del Balso wants neither more nor less than a compensation of $ 4000 for each of the 94 days of "illegal detention" which he says he has served in 2016. He also claims $ 50,000 in " punitive damages "for a total of $ 426,000.
The 48-year-old Lavallois was one of the leaders of the Rizzuto clan pinned in Operation Colisée RCMP in 2006. He was sentenced to 15 years for cocaine trafficking and gangsterism.
His associates Lorenzo Giordano and Rocco Sollecito had also been sentenced to long sentences as a result of this investigation.
In February 2016, Del Balso was released on statutory release after serving two-thirds of his sentence, although under the responsibility of Correctional Service Canada (CSC) until the expiry of the sentence in September 2019.
For his security
The following month, Giordano, also on parole and then considered an aspiring mobster godfather, was shot dead in Laval.
CSC immediately suspended the release of Del Balso, who returned to the penitentiary. This decision was taken to ensure his safety.
However, "ensuring the protection of an offender on statutory release is not grounds for reincarceration" under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, according to his lawyer. "The plaintiff had not violated any condition of his statutory release and was therefore legally entitled to remain at liberty," said Rita Magloé Francis in the lawsuit. Recognized for his fiery temper, the ex-strongman of the Rizzuto clan was able to leave the penitentiary in the spring.
But the scenario was repeated when Rocco Sollecito, a former partner of Del Balso in illegal betting and then acting head of the mafia, was riddled with bullets in turn, May 27, 2016 in Laval.
Del Balso had been taken back to prison, again for his own safety, as the authorities feared he would be "next on the list".
- His release was suspended on two other occasions, through his fault. Notably in October 2018 for his threats against a journalist from our Investigation Bureau, which earned him 30 days in prison. He has been free since January.
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2019/ ... _f93eDiV5s
Translation (using Google Translate):
Laval mafioso claims $ 426,000 to the government.
He sued prison authorities for illegal detentions.
ÉRIC THIBAULT
Le Journal de Montréal
Friday, March 1, 2019 8:34 pm
UPDATE Friday, March 1, 2019 8:34 pm
Mafioso Francesco Del Balso claims nearly half a million dollars to the federal correctional service for "illegally" incarcerating him after the murders of two of his acolytes.
In his lawsuit filed Wednesday in Superior Court, Del Balso wants neither more nor less than a compensation of $ 4000 for each of the 94 days of "illegal detention" which he says he has served in 2016. He also claims $ 50,000 in " punitive damages "for a total of $ 426,000.
The 48-year-old Lavallois was one of the leaders of the Rizzuto clan pinned in Operation Colisée RCMP in 2006. He was sentenced to 15 years for cocaine trafficking and gangsterism.
His associates Lorenzo Giordano and Rocco Sollecito had also been sentenced to long sentences as a result of this investigation.
In February 2016, Del Balso was released on statutory release after serving two-thirds of his sentence, although under the responsibility of Correctional Service Canada (CSC) until the expiry of the sentence in September 2019.
For his security
The following month, Giordano, also on parole and then considered an aspiring mobster godfather, was shot dead in Laval.
CSC immediately suspended the release of Del Balso, who returned to the penitentiary. This decision was taken to ensure his safety.
However, "ensuring the protection of an offender on statutory release is not grounds for reincarceration" under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, according to his lawyer. "The plaintiff had not violated any condition of his statutory release and was therefore legally entitled to remain at liberty," said Rita Magloé Francis in the lawsuit. Recognized for his fiery temper, the ex-strongman of the Rizzuto clan was able to leave the penitentiary in the spring.
But the scenario was repeated when Rocco Sollecito, a former partner of Del Balso in illegal betting and then acting head of the mafia, was riddled with bullets in turn, May 27, 2016 in Laval.
Del Balso had been taken back to prison, again for his own safety, as the authorities feared he would be "next on the list".
- His release was suspended on two other occasions, through his fault. Notably in October 2018 for his threats against a journalist from our Investigation Bureau, which earned him 30 days in prison. He has been free since January.
Re: Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era
some of you may not be even be able to *open it.
Many of us can't read it, which is what I originally wrote.
Many of us can't read it, which is what I originally wrote.
Re: Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era
I didn't provide updates after I made the post above last November.antimafia wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 9:12 am Links to two articles--different subjects--appear below.
Marc Laflamme-Berthelot plaide coupable à tous les chefs portés contre lui https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/just ... re-lui.php
Affaire Sorella: la sélection du jury a débuté
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/just ... debute.php
Long story short: Today, Giuseppe De Vito's wife was found guilty of second-degree murder of their two young daughters.
"Adele Sorella found guilty of second-degree murder in daughters’ deaths"
https://globalnews.ca/news/5023650/adel ... rs-deaths/
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Cross-posting.
Link below is to French-language article about Giuseppe Focarazzo. Some of you might recall his name on a list of wedding guests who attended the wedding reception in Montreal last December for Hells Angel Martin Robert and Annie Arbic. Focarazzo was sitting at a table with Antonio Pietrantonio and other Italians in Quebec considered affiliated with the Montreal Mafia. At the same table was Tony Iavarone of Ontario, brother of the murdered Al Iavarone who was killed last September.
https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2019/03/06/ ... -mafieux-1
Translation (using Google Translate):
A loan signed for a mafia
By Hugo Joncas, Philippe Langlois, Andrea Valeria and Félix Séguin and Jean-François Cloutier
Published on March 6, 2019 at 4:23 am
A senior member of the Caisse de depot represented a high-ranking mafia official in a private loan while working for Quebecers' wool stockings, our Investigation Bureau discovered.
This frame is the economist Edmondo Marandola. It was he who was suspended on February 19 by the Caisse's real estate financing subsidiary, Otéra Capital, when he learned in Le Journal that he was running a real estate developer at the same time.
Our research on him continued. We discovered that even though he has been bankrupt since 2006, Edmondo Marandola continued to be involved in several financial transactions with businessmen.
Among them is Giuseppe Focarazzo, one of the leaders of Italian organized crime in Montreal.
Notarized loan
In March 2015, Edmondo Marandola signed for him a notarized loan of $ 110,000, according to the land register.
This loan was secured by the mock manor du Pegriot, an opulent residence in Mascouche, in the North Shore of Montreal, valued at nearly $ 700,000.
The money from this private loan went in part to the contractor responsible for the renovations on the Focarazzo house, but $ 5,000 also landed in the pockets of Edmondo Marandola, according to copies of checks that our office obtained. 'investigation.
The documents consulted do not explain why Mr. Marandola represented the Mafioso in this transaction.
The two men did not call back to answer our questions.
Other mafia links
Edmondo Marandola is the second executive of the Caisse de dépôt to be directly or indirectly related to the Montreal Mafia.
We asked Otéra Capital if Mr. Marandola had disclosed to his employer the transaction he had made in the name of Giuseppe Focarazzo.
Otéra's spokesperson, Mélanie Charbonneau, merely recalled that he was suspended for an independent investigation and that the results of this investigation would be made public.
Mr. Marandola is also in the sights of the Royal Bank. Two weeks ago, the financial institution seized its shares in a retirement home project, after learning in our pages about its involvement in the project.
The suspended framework owes more than half a million dollars to the Royal Bank. He is still not released from bankruptcy, which dates back to 2006.
Still the mafia
This is the second time in a month that a manager of Otéra Capital, a subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt, is closely related to the mafia.
At the beginning of February, our Investigation Office revealed that Martine Gaudreault, Vice President of Otéra, is in a relationship with Alain Cormier, a private lender long associated with the Rizzuto clan.
Cormier notably held a company for four years with Leonardo Rizzuto, the son of the former godfather of the Montreal mafia Vito Rizzuto (now deceased). Giovanna Cammalleri, the wife of Vito Rizzuto, was also a shareholder in this firm.
Martine Gaudreault has been involved in three businesses with her spouse since 2012. He stated that Ms. Gaudreault was not aware of her business relationship.
The V.-P. of Otéra was suspended following our article.
At the head of a mafia group
Giuseppe "Joey Gator" 43-year-old Focarazzo is leading a small group of mafia gangs who are particularly well connected to the Hells Angels, according to police sources. He also attended the wedding full patch Martin Robert in downtown Montreal last October.
Since the Coliseum survey in the 2000s, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) considered him a money collector of the Rizzuto clan.
A photographer from QMI Agency also shot him at the funeral of mafioso Rocco Sollecito in June 2016.
In December 2017, one of Giuseppe Focarazzo's numbered companies sold a condo in Repentigny to Giovanna Camalleri, the widow of former godfather Vito Rizzuto.
The Focarazzo company had seized an individual who had not been able to repay his loan, granted 57% interest per year. This rate is a hair's breadth away from the 60% that the Criminal Code considers a usurious rate.
Under surveillance
"Joey Gator" has been on the radar of RCMP investigators since the mid-2000s.
On August 20, 2006, officers observed her at the Laennec bar in Laval, one of the mafia's main haunts at the time, according to an overview of the evidence presented in September 2012 to the Charbonneau commission on contracts in construction.
That day, Focarazzo came to find especially Francesco Del Balso, a high ranking heavily involved in the financial operations of the Rizzuto clan.
The police officers were able to observe them "handling handguns," according to the evidence.
"They discuss firearms types and caliber and seem to compare their weapons," the federal police wrote.
The criminal record of Giuseppe Focarazzo is still light. In July 2004, he was fined and sentenced to two years for extortion, death threats or injuries, and for being in a vehicle carrying a prohibited weapon.
- With the collaboration of Éric Thibault
Link below is to French-language article about Giuseppe Focarazzo. Some of you might recall his name on a list of wedding guests who attended the wedding reception in Montreal last December for Hells Angel Martin Robert and Annie Arbic. Focarazzo was sitting at a table with Antonio Pietrantonio and other Italians in Quebec considered affiliated with the Montreal Mafia. At the same table was Tony Iavarone of Ontario, brother of the murdered Al Iavarone who was killed last September.
https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2019/03/06/ ... -mafieux-1
Translation (using Google Translate):
A loan signed for a mafia
By Hugo Joncas, Philippe Langlois, Andrea Valeria and Félix Séguin and Jean-François Cloutier
Published on March 6, 2019 at 4:23 am
A senior member of the Caisse de depot represented a high-ranking mafia official in a private loan while working for Quebecers' wool stockings, our Investigation Bureau discovered.
This frame is the economist Edmondo Marandola. It was he who was suspended on February 19 by the Caisse's real estate financing subsidiary, Otéra Capital, when he learned in Le Journal that he was running a real estate developer at the same time.
Our research on him continued. We discovered that even though he has been bankrupt since 2006, Edmondo Marandola continued to be involved in several financial transactions with businessmen.
Among them is Giuseppe Focarazzo, one of the leaders of Italian organized crime in Montreal.
Notarized loan
In March 2015, Edmondo Marandola signed for him a notarized loan of $ 110,000, according to the land register.
This loan was secured by the mock manor du Pegriot, an opulent residence in Mascouche, in the North Shore of Montreal, valued at nearly $ 700,000.
The money from this private loan went in part to the contractor responsible for the renovations on the Focarazzo house, but $ 5,000 also landed in the pockets of Edmondo Marandola, according to copies of checks that our office obtained. 'investigation.
The documents consulted do not explain why Mr. Marandola represented the Mafioso in this transaction.
The two men did not call back to answer our questions.
Other mafia links
Edmondo Marandola is the second executive of the Caisse de dépôt to be directly or indirectly related to the Montreal Mafia.
We asked Otéra Capital if Mr. Marandola had disclosed to his employer the transaction he had made in the name of Giuseppe Focarazzo.
Otéra's spokesperson, Mélanie Charbonneau, merely recalled that he was suspended for an independent investigation and that the results of this investigation would be made public.
Mr. Marandola is also in the sights of the Royal Bank. Two weeks ago, the financial institution seized its shares in a retirement home project, after learning in our pages about its involvement in the project.
The suspended framework owes more than half a million dollars to the Royal Bank. He is still not released from bankruptcy, which dates back to 2006.
Still the mafia
This is the second time in a month that a manager of Otéra Capital, a subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt, is closely related to the mafia.
At the beginning of February, our Investigation Office revealed that Martine Gaudreault, Vice President of Otéra, is in a relationship with Alain Cormier, a private lender long associated with the Rizzuto clan.
Cormier notably held a company for four years with Leonardo Rizzuto, the son of the former godfather of the Montreal mafia Vito Rizzuto (now deceased). Giovanna Cammalleri, the wife of Vito Rizzuto, was also a shareholder in this firm.
Martine Gaudreault has been involved in three businesses with her spouse since 2012. He stated that Ms. Gaudreault was not aware of her business relationship.
The V.-P. of Otéra was suspended following our article.
At the head of a mafia group
Giuseppe "Joey Gator" 43-year-old Focarazzo is leading a small group of mafia gangs who are particularly well connected to the Hells Angels, according to police sources. He also attended the wedding full patch Martin Robert in downtown Montreal last October.
Since the Coliseum survey in the 2000s, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) considered him a money collector of the Rizzuto clan.
A photographer from QMI Agency also shot him at the funeral of mafioso Rocco Sollecito in June 2016.
In December 2017, one of Giuseppe Focarazzo's numbered companies sold a condo in Repentigny to Giovanna Camalleri, the widow of former godfather Vito Rizzuto.
The Focarazzo company had seized an individual who had not been able to repay his loan, granted 57% interest per year. This rate is a hair's breadth away from the 60% that the Criminal Code considers a usurious rate.
Under surveillance
"Joey Gator" has been on the radar of RCMP investigators since the mid-2000s.
On August 20, 2006, officers observed her at the Laennec bar in Laval, one of the mafia's main haunts at the time, according to an overview of the evidence presented in September 2012 to the Charbonneau commission on contracts in construction.
That day, Focarazzo came to find especially Francesco Del Balso, a high ranking heavily involved in the financial operations of the Rizzuto clan.
The police officers were able to observe them "handling handguns," according to the evidence.
"They discuss firearms types and caliber and seem to compare their weapons," the federal police wrote.
The criminal record of Giuseppe Focarazzo is still light. In July 2004, he was fined and sentenced to two years for extortion, death threats or injuries, and for being in a vehicle carrying a prohibited weapon.
- With the collaboration of Éric Thibault
Re: Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era
^^^^
Interesting tweet reply by Paul Manning re: Tony Iavarone:
https://twitter.com/mobinfiltrator/stat ... 6018091009
Paul Manning @mobinfiltrator
Replying to @CdnOrgC
Tony still off the map and missing, apparently.
8:22 AM - 6 Mar 2019
Interesting tweet reply by Paul Manning re: Tony Iavarone:
https://twitter.com/mobinfiltrator/stat ... 6018091009
Paul Manning @mobinfiltrator
Replying to @CdnOrgC
Tony still off the map and missing, apparently.
8:22 AM - 6 Mar 2019