CabriniGreen wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 9:24 pm
@ antimafia
What's the Caputos primary business? Base of operations? They are Ndrangheta, then? You have any idea if they are under the Siderno clans? Or are they Gionica? I butchered the spelling.....
Peter Edwards's latest article discusses the Wolfpack Alliance of which Martino Caputo is/was considered a member. See link at the bottom of this post. (The article repeats the theory that Cosimo Ernesto Commisso was killed because of his older Commisso relatives -- his father's first cousins -- having clashed with the Wolfpack Alliance.)
I don't think that Martino, along with twin brother Antonio and the recently murdered Paolo, were 'ndrangheta members. If they were, there would be nothing surprising about their being associates of Vito Rizzuto and vice versa. Italian-Canadians Roberto and Antonio Papalia -- twin brothers born in Calabria -- were also Rizzuto's associates, but I don't think the brothers were 'ndranghetisti.
Martino's main line of business was the importation and trafficking of cocaine, an activity that a number of years ago took him to Ontario's Niagara Region, where he was considered Nick Nero's right-hand man -- this position he held is one reason I don't think Martino was a made member of any Italian secret society. Paul Manning had stated on Twitter that Antonio had also moved to the Niagara Region, presumably at or around the same time as his brother had.
Back in May 2007, a number of Canadian newspapers had reported that a Luigi Caputo and an Antonio Caputo had been charged with keeping a common gambling house -- a cafe in the Ontario town of Oakville was raided; these Caputos were said to be residents of Oakville, which is part of the Greater Toronto Area. The reported age of this Antonio Caputo in 2007 -- 29 years old -- does not match up with the ages of twins Martino and Angelo that have been reported at various times over the years. Nevertheless, twins Martino and Antonio were caught up in the Montreal Mafia-tied gambling-ring bust in Ontario in the early 2000s, and recent articles about their brother Paolo also mentions his involvement in illegal gambling.
Given what felice had posted about Antonio Caputo now being in New York, I've finally come to the view that the twins are journeymen. The twins' being Calabrian likely brought one or both of them into contact with the Siderno Group in the GTA, and if their ancestry did not, they likely would have encountered Cosimo Commisso of the GTA because Commisso was obviously working in concert with Rizzuto in the aforementioned gambling ring -- permission had to be asked of Commisso regarding the installation of machines in Hamilton and Ottawa.
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