OcSleeper wrote:
Do I know who shot? Yes. Besides, this guy is still alive.
Then the question arises why they didn't ask him who this person is? He was breaking Omerta anyway so why be an asshole and give a vague revelation just to boast about it? Ofcourse, it's quite possible he did provide a name but for legal (and safety) reasons they can not mention it in the book.
You make a great point with the legal and safety reasons.
I havent quite got to it yet, but its explained how, these journalist had NO real control over their discourses with Scoppa. He was in control, it's why I kind of compare him to Scarpa a little bit. Hes kind of a Montreal Greg Scarpa....
Vito had to go to Ontario first, because if his problem was with the Ndrangheta, then his problems are huge, almost too huge for him to solve. He can’t exactly go to war against all of them, given how weak his faction was by then.
But, his problems end up being local to Montreal... much easier for him to manage. Less people to get revenge against. Just a small rebel faction, as opposed to an international criminal organization.
I think Vito met with Frank Cali in Ontario back then too, who told him he has a problem in New York. Which I take to mean Vito’s problem is due to Montagna and the Bonannos, not with the Calabrians.
Also, it seems like there’s no proof that the Violis were involved either, even lending support from Hamilton. Unless one of the upcoming chapters mentions that later.
It seems the plot against the Rizzutos was 100% internal and contained to Montreal. No outside influence in the war from Hamilton or Toronto.
Also, I doubt the New York Bonannos did anything other than lend moral support. They were also probably too weak by that time period to offer much else.
I thought someone posted here a while back saying that Montreal was now under the Gambino after meeting with New York. Maybe Antimafia or someone else made this post.
stubbs wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 9:42 am
I think Vito met with Frank Cali in Ontario back then too, who told him he has a problem in New York. Which I take to mean Vito’s problem is due to Montagna and the Bonannos, not with the Calabrians.
Also, it seems like there’s no proof that the Violis were involved either, even lending support from Hamilton. Unless one of the upcoming chapters mentions that later.
It seems the plot against the Rizzutos was 100% internal and contained to Montreal. No outside influence in the war from Hamilton or Toronto.
Also, I doubt the New York Bonannos did anything other than lend moral support. They were also probably too weak by that time period to offer much else.
I've never heard of Cali meeting anyone in Canada let alone Vito. When was this?
And this is just my personal opinion but I think the Siderno Group and maybe the Violis were involved. Theres been a few Ndrangheta linked people who were killed around the time and some police even considered as suspects. Maybe they werent directly involved but I think they definitely lended their support.
I've always felt like the Bonannos were letting the war play out and then work with whatever was left. It also seemed like during this time they started working with Buffalo and Violis more.
I've always thought the Violis were involved ever since the old man got sniped at his dinner table. It just seemed like a vendetta: you had Renda and Cuntrera who both were charged in the Paolo Violi murder (although I think the case against Renda was dropped) get whacked and then Nick gets it in front of his family at home just like Rocco Violi did 30 years prior, all happening within a few months. Scoppa hasn't seemed to mention their involvement at all so it seems that it was all just incidental. These guys needed to go strictly because of their position in the milieu no matter what they did in the past and that sniper shot from the bushes was the best way to get the old man who barely left home anymore. But if they had nothing to do with the whole thing it just comes off I don't want to say disappointing but maybe.....anticlimactic? Then again maybe the Violis and other Ontario gangsters did play some role, even if it was just support from a distance, and in that case you just know the Violis must have got some serious satisfaction at what went down.
I remember seeing Scoppa go off the rails, in the grip of a real anxiety attack. It was in a hotel room and I could hear him yelling, "They're going to have my skin, they're going to kill me!" I won't wake up, I won't be there for my family anymore. They are driving me crazy! ”
That's what he kept repeating as he banged his fist on a table. Scoppa kept repeating that and asked me what I would do if I was in his situation. This is not my life, this is not my world. I replied: "No idea, I don't know."
That didn't stop him, during the five years we met, from telling me about his fear of dying. One day he said to me, "If you knew how I envy you because you, when you leave your house, you're not afraid of getting a bullet. Me, when I leave our house, I can have one, anytime. I could have one when I come to see you. Besides, if it is known that I am talking to you, I will have one. Do you realize how lucky you are to know that you can walk down the street without fear of getting killed? "
He always told me that he wanted to retire, that he had nothing to do with the Mafia anymore and that he had been quiet for a long time. That he was considering going into business legitimately.
But that in the end, we always came bring him back to the middle and that was driving him crazy. A bit like this famous line by Al Pacino in The Godfather 3. On the morning of December 23, 2013, Radio-Canada announced that Vito Rizzuto died of “lung problems” during the night at the Sacré-Cœur hospital in Montreal, after being admitted the day before.
His death is "beyond a natural doubt" and will therefore not be the subject of an investigation by the Coroner's Office, declared his spokesperson at the time, Geneviève Guilbault, who would become Quebec's Minister of Public Security. years later.
La Presse reports that the 67-year-old man died suddenly of complications from pneumonia, "without having fully satisfied his revenge." Three days later, Le Journal de Montréal reported that the godfather was also suffering from lung cancer, that he had started chemotherapy, but that he had "chosen to delay his treatment [after the holidays] to spend Christmas with him. his family".
The article provides further details: His wife allegedly found him lying on the floor of their house on the Saturday before his death. He was immediately taken to hospital by ambulance, but his condition suddenly deteriorated on Sunday night.
His health problems weren't yesterday. Already in 2006, when Vito Rizzuto was extradited to New York to stand trial for his involvement in the murders of three members of the Bonanno family, he had mentioned "a stain on a lung", recalls Pierre de Champlain, author and former RCMP intelligence analyst. “We had forgotten this detail,” he said.
While the name of Rocco Sollecito - one of Vito Rizzuto's most faithful disciples - has been mentioned on several occasions, Pierre de Champlain is considering a younger succession. “Maybe the son of one of his former lieutenants,” he says without getting too wet. And in the coming weeks, the Mafia will surely come to some agreement on someone to take over leadership on an interim basis, ”he said.
The transition should not be expected to be smooth, also emphasizes Mr. de Champlain: "It is very possible that there will be sparks, because the stakes are high."
"I don't believe Vito died in peace," Andrew Scoppa tells us, before advancing a theory regarding the fate of the godfather. “The last few months for Vito have been a real disaster.
By June 2013, he had started to feel comfortable and in control again. Things were back to normal. He could go out in public without fearing for his safety. But he remained cautious. And his health was good. Until November 2013. It’s very ironic, by the way. When Vito killed someone or allowed someone to be killed, he often had bad luck.
In fact, I should say instead that every time Vito did something he shouldn't have done, he paid the price somehow. Here are just three examples. “On January 19, 2004, Paolo Gervasi was killed. The next day, Vito gets arrested for extradition to the United States for the three murders he took part in in New York in 1981.
On November 10, 2013, Moreno Gallo was assassinated in Mexico. Moreno, that shouldn't have happened. Vito could have talked to him ... And right after, Vito caught the flu from one of the many ass-lickers who had come to see him to ask for a favor. And he fell seriously ill.
“On December 18, 2013, Roger Valiquette was killed in his turn. Vito had done Steve Sauce and Tony Coloc [Tonino Callocchia] a favor who were pressuring him to get his permission because they wanted to get rid of Valiquette and take the Book from him. And five days later, Vito dies. Is this called karma?
"I saw it all coming ... I knew it was going to suck. I knew that Vito was going to give in to the requests of those who pushed him behind the back to have his blessing and be able to do their four will. He did it to please them.
A visionary like Vito, with his great wisdom, should have known this would end badly. In the last months of his life, they made fun of him. They used it for their own ends. They took advantage of him. They lied to him. They needed his permission to kill anyone whose business they coveted. Vito let them do it. He made a big mistake. “And what had to happen happened. He caught the flu from one of those idiots who came to see him to ask him a favor. His immune system was down from his cancer treatments and it killed him.
Shortly before his death, Vito called me and said, “These guys are driving me crazy! They keep asking me for favors, coming to disturb me at my house for all kinds of shitty stuff. I can't take it anymore! "
I gave him and his wife shit. I said to them, "He's sick, he's on chemo, his immune system is at zero, he's feverish and you allow these fools to come here and ask him such and such a favor and put his life in danger?"
Like an idiot, his son Leo let it all happen without saying a word. He could have decided that no one was allowed to visit Vito anymore because he was ill. If that had been really essential, he could have forced visitors to put on gloves, a mask ... Or he could have arranged to keep a doctor at home with him. But no.
“Vito ended up realizing all of this. Well almost. Vito told me that I was right all around and everyone. Except on Steve Sauce. "In addition, he died before he could avenge his son Nicky ..." Vito Rizzuto wanted to have Ducarme Joseph "alive" to torture him and "to make him suffer", according to legal documents linked to the Magot and Mastiff police investigations carried out in against organized crime in Montreal between 2013 and 2015.
This information, drawn from statements from sources in the criminal community to the Mixed Regional Squad (ERM) for the fight against organized crime in Montreal, tends to support the thesis envisaged by the police that Ducarme Joseph was involved in the murder of Nick Rizzuto Jr. in 2009.
And that his father knew full well. In the hope of securing his revenge, the Rizzuto clan and its partners in organized crime have put no less than "ten teams" of henchmen on the heels of the boss who was nicknamed "Kenny", according to affidavits signed by investigators from the ERM.
However, he remained nowhere to be found and Vito Rizzuto gave up his soul before him. Ducarme Joseph, who already made the law in downtown Montreal after founding the 67 street gang, breathes his last seven months after the godfather.
On the evening of August 1, 2014, the 46-year-old boss was strafed in the middle of rue Michel-Ange, in the Saint-Michel district, not far from his mother's residence. The police were called around 10:15 p.m. for a man lying on the ground, said a spokesperson for the SPVM that same evening.
The victim in his 40s suffered "serious injuries to the upper body, inflicted by a firearm". Paramedics dispatched to the scene can only note the death of the man. Several cartridge cases and a TEC-9 type semi-automatic weapon were found on site. The killer, presumably an experienced professional, has never been identified. Ducarme Joseph is unrecognizable after the assault, according to TVA Nouvelles.
One of the son of the boss appears at the scene of the crime in during the night, assuming that the victim could be his father, but he cannot formally recognize it.
“We knew it was going to happen, but we didn't know when. What surprises me is that he was not accompanied by his bodyguard, which was his habit for the past few years, ”explains Richard Dupuis, the expert in police affairs and retired SPVM commander. , on the airwaves of LCN.
According to this ex-specialist in organized crime, the police had warned Ducarme Joseph on several occasions that his head was at a price. "As was his habit, he laughed at that, he said to whoever wanted to hear it that even death could not catch up with him, but we have to believe that last night, his fate caught up with him", adds the former police officer about this kingpin who practiced voodoo and wore an amulet for his protection.
Two and a half months after the murder of Nick Rizzuto Jr., on March 18, 2010, the former leader of the 67 gang was the target of a shooting at Flawnego, his clothing store in Old Montreal, which had two dead and two injured. Ducarme Joseph had escaped the attack and had himself alerted the police.
Three months before the murder of "Kenny" Joseph, the two shooters involved in the Flawnego shooting and the driver of the car in which they had fled were found guilty of premeditated double murder and double attempted murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, with no possibility of release for at least 25 years.
According to ERM documents, Ducarme Joseph was no longer respected in the underworld because he did not pay his debts and "stole from young people" involved in the criminal milieu.
ERM informants are categorical: the murder of Joseph is "a contract" of Italian organized crime.
Andrew Scoppa confirms this by giving us some unpublished details he knows about this settling of scores. According to him, Ducarme Joseph was trapped by an acquaintance of his who would also have rubbed shoulders in prison with Stefano Sollecito's father, Rocco, while the latter is behind bars following Operation Colosseum.
This person allegedly offered the Rizzuto clan to "sell" him the kingpin on a silver platter, for a reward of over $ 200,000. This is how "Kenny" would have gone without a bodyguard to a meeting rigged by an acquaintance he obviously trusted, not realizing that a gunman was waiting for him along the way.
Four and a half years later, the businessman whose protector Ducarme Joseph has also fallen under fire. Here is how Le Journal de Montréal relates the assassination of Antonio Magi on January 24, 2019, in an article entitled “Tony Magi, the final act of the Rizzuto plan?”: The assassination in broad daylight yesterday of the entrepreneur under construction Tony Magi, known for his close ties with the Italian mafia, could be the last revenge orchestrated by the Rizzuto clan.
Police suspected Magi was behind the 2009 murder of Nick Rizzuto Jr., son of the late godfather Vito. The contract would have been carried out by the caïd Ducarme Joseph, shot, in 2014. For observers, the murder of Magi could be regarded as the final act of the plan of revenge of the Rizzuto clan for the attempts of destabilization lived while the godfather was behind bars in the United States.
"The mafia has a long memory and revenge is something to be eaten cold for them," says criminologist Maria Mourani, who favors the hypothesis of a settling of scores with the Rizzutos. She doesn't rule out that Magi could have been targeted for her debts. Magi has been more discreet in recent years in Montreal real estate, but he continued to be involved in several projects.
The developer was found in the parking lot of a building [that his firm had] almost entirely built, at the corner of rue Saint-Jacques and avenue Beaconsfield. The police were called at around 11:15 am after a body was found in the entrance to a garage [of this] building under construction in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce district. Emergency services believed Magi was the victim of an accident at work.
With the bullet holes, they realized it was not an accident. The 59-year-old was reportedly shot at least three times in the chest and once in the head. He was pronounced dead in hospital. "[It's] a pro job," said a police source. No witnesses were said to have witnessed the execution. The murderer (s) have fled and were still off last night. Magi has been involved in several violent events.
He sometimes wore a bulletproof vest, surrounded by bodyguards and drove in an armored vehicle It was impossible to know if Magi was still protected by henchmen today. The contractor had a gun in his nightstand. He pleaded guilty in 2012 to a reduced weapon possession offense and received an absolute discharge.
In 2008, he miraculously survived an attempted murder while in his car. Three years earlier he had been kidnapped by a group of individuals and managed to escape. His wife was targeted by a sniper in 2011, also driving his car. She had escaped unscathed. In 2013, a sniper armed with a submachine gun attempted to attack Magi at his residence, but was arrested by two bodyguards.
Tony Magi was the promoter behind the famous 1000 project, de la Commune, which was one of the main haunts of the underworld in the city, just in front of the St. Lawrence River. He worked for a long time with Nick Rizzuto Jr., the son of former mafia godfather Vito Rizzuto, until he fell under the bullets of an assassin a stone's throw from the Magi offices on Upper-Lachine Road. in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. Yesterday, Magi also fell, eight blocks away.
The promoter had been talked about a lot in recent years. The Charbonneau commission, in particular, looked at how the Rizzutos found funding for their project at 1000, de la Commune, just on the shores of the St. Lawrence River. Magi bought these old cold stores from the Canada Lands Company in 1999 to transform them into ultra-secure luxury condos.
In return for his good services, the Rizzuto family even received five free condos in 2009 in the new development, without the sponsor even investing a single dollar out of his pocket, according to what the commission revealed.
I was traveling to Mexico on December 23, 2013, when Vito died, Scoppa tells us. On December 20, the last time I spoke to him, I told Vito that we were going to spend a week together playing golf.
Unfortunately we couldn't. I came back here as soon as I found out he had passed away. And I gave him shit while he was there laying in front of me, still in his coffin. I reproached him. I told him: 'You leave me alone with this damn bunch of idiots!' "A month and a half after the death of Vito Rizzuto, a police informant, identified only by the number" 1 "in court documents that we obtained, affirms the following to investigators specializing in the fight against organized crime in the Montreal region:
• Leonardo Rizzuto is the new leader of the Montreal faction of Italian organized crime.
• Rocco Sollecito is his consigliere (adviser).
• Loris Cavaliere, [the Rizzuto Clan's] lawyer, is the messenger for this faction.
• Stefano Sollecito is the right-hand man and street-level "intelligence" for the [Italian] organized crime faction.
• Andrew Scoppa is still very important to Italian organized crime.
On October 29, 2014, the Éclipse group, the SPVM brigade that patrols places frequented by organized crime in the city center, made a visit to Restaurant La Grille located at 65, rue Jarry Est, north of Little Italy. .
The police follow up on information that several individuals linked to the Montreal mafia and other organized crime factions are said to be present.
At the scene, the police learned that there was a reception given for the 47th birthday of one of the mafia leaders, Stefano Sollecito.
Among those present, whose identity has been verified and noted by the police, we therefore find the birthday boy, Stefano Sollecito, the son of Vito Rizzuto, Leonardo, Nicola (Nick) Spagnolo, of whom the father Vincenzo was one of the best friends of Vito Rizzuto, as well as Liborio Cuntrera, whose father Agostino was also a staunch ally of the Rizzuto before being assassinated on June 29, 2010 in Montreal.
Among the guests, there is also Loris Cavaliere, longtime lawyer of the Rizzuto clan, and Vito Salvaggio, who will soon be in charge of collecting the pizzo, the tribute paid by traders to the Mafia in exchange for his protection.
We also find the sexagenarian Salvatore Brunetti, both close to Italian organized crime and bikers. In fact, the Hells Angels will give him his full membership jacket and welcome him to their ranks in 2018. The Eclipse group also identifies at least five individuals linked to Andrew Scoppa's organization.
Among these, there is Joseph Chamai, whom recent police intelligence reports describe as the "boss" of Lebanese organized crime in the sectors of Laval and the Saint-Laurent borough, as well as the right-hand man of Scoppa, Steve "The Jew" Ovadia. Andrew Scoppa shines with his absence The following month, this police intervention was echoed in Le Journal de Montreal, where Stefano Sollecito was described as "the rising star of the Montreal mafia".
In March 2015, Sollecito was identified as the "mafia operations chief," according to our Bureau of Investigation. That same year, the police heard Stefano Sollecito say that he and a few other Quebec organized crime leaders formed "a family". And Andrew Scoppa is not one of them.....
• The last chapter ended with another hot take.... The implication being that Stefano Sollecito consolidated some kind of " Family". From which Scoppa was excluded, or ostracized?
• I dont know if this is supposed to be a " New" group forged out of remnants of the previous regime. Or the same organization, just reorganized. Or a formal distancing from New York, and the Bonnanos. Or just like, Sollecitos ruling click/crew. I'm not entirely sure what's meant here, any thoughts?
Chapter 12 cont.....
Andrew had a love-hate relationship with his brother Salvatore. He spoke to me openly about him during our meetings in Montreal, calling him all names: Dumbass, Dumbshit, Motherfucker, Crazy ...
He always spoke of him like crazy, deranged, impulsive and uncontrollable, who was hurt everyone and was willing to kill anyone to be in the right gang. Andrew kept telling me that he was the one who raised his younger brother, that he would have wanted something else for him, but that Salvatore had become the madman of the family.
“I have prevented him from getting killed dozens of times. And I haven't spoken to him for a long time, ”he told me. The bickering between the two Scoppa brothers, we talked about it 10 years ago and it was probably not entirely wrong.
As proof, in the spring of 2015, according to legal documents that we obtained, police sources informed investigators that Andrea Scoppa "is at war with her brother Salvatore", that "Salvatore Scoppa wants to take control of the sale of narcotics to Laval ”and that he“ wants to take the territory of his brother Andrew ”.
But I also don't think those bickering stories corresponded perfectly to reality. I think they were a cover for the two brothers, while they conspired together to commit murders. This is what the police think too.
Andrew was getting very evasive when it came to murders he'd been involved in… When I pushed him a little too hard, he always blamed Salvatore for everything.
Sometimes he cut it short by giving me simplistic answers. If I asked him why so and so had been killed, he would reply something like:
"Maybe he did something wrong…"
"Like what?"
“People do a lot of wrong things…”
“In the spring of 2015, Steve Sauce wanted my brother to kill me,” says Andrew. “He had spent the entire previous year with Salvatore. He knew what my brother was capable of doing. Salvatore had made contracts for him. They had become friends. And he knew my brother was jealous of me. Steve and Sal were both jealous of me. Steve was pushing my brother to take all my 'hash' [business], ”Andrew tells us, touching his nostril with his index finger to suggest cocaine.
"But Steve must have been thinking, 'I can't believe I found someone who is even more jealous of Andrew than I am! Lucky as a beggar! ” So he thought, “I'll let him pass his brother, and then I'll get rid of him.”
But one of the guys who worked for my brother called out, “Did you fall on your head? You will kill your own brother? Can't you see they're going to enjoy it a lot longer than you? Because it won't be long, you're going to be the next one to be eliminated… ”And then this guy came to me to tell me everything. “I changed your brother's mind. He was coming to kill you! This is completely stupid, ”he told me. I asked myself, “Has my brother gone crazy or is he just really stupid?” So for several months, I stopped talking to him. "
Stefano Sollecito is in the crosshairs of the police during this period. Between January 2013 and November 2015, the Montreal Mixed Regional Organized Crime Squad (ERM) conducted the Magot investigation into narcotics trafficking and gangsterism.
Leonardo Rizzuto, the son of the late godfather, Loris Cavaliere, lawyer for the Rizzuto clan, as well as Gregory Woolley, the only black man to have been part of the Hells organization in Canada and then considered "the godfather of street gangs.
In Montreal, were also among the main suspects targeted. As part of the Magot Inquiry, court documents containing information from police informants and wiretaps were entered into evidence in court. These reports have made it possible to paint a portrait of organized crime in Montreal during these three years, of its decision-makers, of the alliances that were forged there and of the conflicts that broke out.
Gregory Woolley is the dominant figure on the island of Montreal today and […] he is responsible for the logistics and [of] the administration of a vast network selling narcotics of all kinds.
Gregory Woolley is currently the Montreal manager for the Hells Angels biker group. Woolley was incarcerated with Vito Rizzuto in 2005.
They were in the same detention wing at the Regional Reception Center in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, from July 6 [to] September 21, 2005, and were seen several times in train to chat together in the outdoor courtyard.
Woolley was incarcerated in Project Ax. Vito was then extradited to the USA for murder. According to several sources, upon his release, Gregory Woolley, supported by members of the Syndicate, set the Alliance in motion. This is an expression used to refer to the union of members of street gangs of red and blue allegiance.
The Alliance also rallies the various factions of organized crime, the Hells Angels, Italian organized crime and street gangs, with the common goal of maximizing the profits of each in connection with drug trafficking. Sources reveal Gregory Woolley is business partner with Vito Rizzuto on drug trafficking level.
Woolley has been seen on several occasions in the company of individuals linked to Italian organized crime including […] Tonino Callocchia, Stefano Sollecito, Marco Pizzi and Vito Rizzuto.
Lawyer Loris Cavaliere was present during the meetings between Gregory Woolley and Vito Rizzuto. Sources reveal the importance of Loris Cavaliere, lawyer for the Rizzuto clan, to the organization.
Leonardo Rizzuto and Loris Cavaliere are lawyers and use their status to send different messages to different members of organized crime, be it the Italian Mafia, the Hells Angels or members of street gangs.
For the past ten years or so, sources have reported information concerning the involvement of Loris Cavaliere […] as a mediator with various criminal groups. Loris Cavaliere is seen on several occasions in the company of criminalized individuals, including Gregory Woolley, […] Vito Rizzuto, [the Hells Angels, HA] Gilles Lambert, Mario Sollecito, Stefano Sollecito and Raynald Desjardins.
Meetings take place both at Loris Cavaliere's office, which is equipped with a system of cameras and magnetic doors, and in licensed locations, at special events held in Montreal or in prison.
On June 27, 2013, Mr. Leonardo Rizzuto declares to the police officers of the Eclipse group that he or Loris Cavaliere could replace his father and that Montreal will be quiet until the death of his father.
In an intercepted conversation, Mr. Sollecito is of the opinion that Leonardo does not have what it takes to replace his father.
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• I believe there is an excerpt of the wiretap transcripts, where Stefano calls him a marshmallow.....
Chapter 12 cont.......
On December 18, 2013, Roger Valiquette was assassinated in the parking lot of the St-Hubert restaurant on boulevard des Laurentides in Laval.
On December 23, 2013, Vito Rizzuto died of natural causes. On May 23, 2014, a discussion was intercepted between Loris Cavaliere and his wife about a newspaper article about Leonardo Rizzuto and bikers.
It is mentioned that the HAs were on [the street] Ontario and the Italians were in the cafes but now they are all under one roof.
Loris mentions that it was because of him and that it all started when he went to the funeral (of Hells Gaétan Comeau, September 2, 2012) with Gregory Woolley [they arrived together in a Ferrari]. Loris Cavaliere also mentions that they will now be having coffee at Steve's (Stefano Sollecito) bar.
On June 6, 2014, at approximately 3:24 pm, Gregory Woolley left [the] Empire Café Bistro with Stefano Sollecito. The duo discuss together and then go their separate ways Stefano Sollecito goes back inside […] as Gregory Woolley walks towards his vehicle.
On July 15, 2014, the police made a first surreptitious entry into Loris Cavaliere's office located at 6977, boulevard St-Laurent in Montreal in order to install electronic eavesdropping devices.
Several inputs have been made to maximize the efficiency of the listening and video devices. The physical locations in particular ensured that the operations were spread out over time.
The last surreptitious entry made by the police was made on October 28, 2014 to complete the facilities. On December 1, 2014, Tonino Callocchia, former partner of Roger Valiquette, was assassinated.
Gilles Lambert represents the Hells Angels and is associated with members of the Italian Mafia by pooling their financial resources (in a common pot of money) for bookmaking (betting and illegal games). The representatives of the Italian mafia involved in the bookmaking are Stefano Sollecito, Vito Salvaggio and Marco Pizzi. In addition these have on the street in loan sharks between 7 to 8 million which is the old list of loan sharks of Roger Valiquette and Tonino Callocchia who are deceased.
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• This "Book", to me resembles the Ruby Stein loan/ ledger book. A kinda master ledger for a pool of investment money, "managed" by a great loan shark, but "owned" by the investors, (?)maybe not necessarily any ONE criminal, or criminal organization. It's not clear to me what qualifies one to hold the " Book". Made mafia member, perhaps? It controls all the sports betting, and apparently all the card game action too. And apparently, the Hells have investors as well....
• I wonder why the Hells don't set up their own offshore thing...
• Why do you guys think the bookmaking developed that way? A centralized gambling operation?
Is this due to those bookies running north from all the Keafauver heat? When Bonnano sent Galante to get them back in line, did Galante strongarm the industry into a central operation? Is this " Book" a Galante legacy?
Chapter 12 cont.......
On August 11, 2015 at 13:58 (in the conference room of his law office), Loris Cavaliere talks with Stefano Sollecito […]:
Stefano explains to Loris that they are in business together, with Stefano's father, that he shouldn't be fooled by appearances and that there are guys working underneath them.
They are the ones who collect. He identifies as "our team", "the team that we built" and [says] that they feel protected, that people don't want to bother them.
Stefano then mentions that he can't collect someone who owes him $ 1,000, when that person was there for them, it's not his personality to do that. Then it is about money, and Stefano mentions that they are the ones who manage the gambling.
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• It appears Stefano tells the lawyer that he, Lambert, and his father are in the gambling business. He also says that despite appearances, the Hells are under them? Meaning the mafia? He says they built their own street crew to handle the day to day. And that someone owes him a grand, but someone of his stature cant do such a menial task. That was what I got out of it.....
• Basically, it seems Stefano is starting to feel himself a little, the " Book" has him feeling powerful....
Chapter 12 cont.........
Stefano says Leo is like a marshmallow. He doesn't have a column to tell others what to do. Stefano adds that [three Mafiosi] don't have balls, they have a hard time doing their jobs, and it's because of Leo that Stefano can't do anything.
Loris Cavaliere talks to Stefano Sollecito on August 20, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. Loris mentions that Marco, the "Kid from RDP", came to see him and told him that Stefano had asked him something, which was to ask Loris to find someone Stefano tells him he's going to visit him at the office. "Marco the Kid from RDP" is Marco Campellone.
On the evening of September 18, 2015, Campellone was assassinated in front of his residence.
These extracts from court documents and sworn statements from Project Magot investigators mention the names of three men who were shot to death: Roger Valiquette, Tonino Callocchia and Marco Campellone. All were, however, linked to the Mafia “family”, whose operations were then presumed to be directed by Sollecito.
On the morning of February 1, 2013, Callocchia had made a narrow escape. Shot by a gunman in the parking lot of a restaurant on Boulevard Saint-Martin Ouest in Laval, the man nicknamed "Tony Coloc", who was also president of Construction TDP, survived his injuries.
According to Andrew Scoppa, the 51-year-old mobster, sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1998 for importing cocaine through Toronto's Pearson Airport, was the one who murdered influential Joe Di Maulo less than three months earlier.
This attempted murder occurred the day after the murder of Vincenzo Scuderi, a close friend of the boss Giuseppe De Vito whose name was on the blacklist of the godfather Vito Rizzuto.
On December 18, 2013, Roger Valiquette, the largest usurious lender in Quebec, fell under bullets in Laval, and Callocchia, then one of his associates, resumed his business But he suffered the same fate as Valiquette less than a year later, on December 1, 2014, when he was seated in a bistro on Boulevard Henri-Bourassa.
In the early afternoon, "Callocchia got a call. He was told that two people linked to the Sicilian Mafia absolutely had to meet him in this little cafe, "Le Journal de Montreal reported in its December 4 edition, on the basis of a" source well aware of the events ".
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• When they say Sicilian Mafia, do we think this is a generic reference to Italian OC, or are they talking the ACTUAL Sicilian mafia? Ribera people, maybe? Just a thought here, what do you guys think? Reference to the Montrealers, or Sicilian mafiosi operating in Montreal?
Chapter 12 cont......
Two hooded men came up to meet him and hit him with at least one bullet in the head. That day, Marco Pizzi, another Mafioso whom the police consider to be a big drug trafficker, had the luck of his life according to court documents from the Magot Inquiry.
“On December 1, 2014, Marco Pizzi and Tonino Callocchia, former partner of Roger Valiquette, went to Bistro XO + in Montreal. Two hooded men entered the bistro while Marco Pizzi left to go to the bathroom and shot Tonino Callocchia at point blank range.
Marco Pizzi heard the shots and noted the death of his friend, ”according to an investigator in a sworn statement. The next day, Pizzi was under police surveillance when he went to meet Stefano Sollecito at a restaurant on rue Square-Victoria, while his brother, Mario, "kept watch in the portico."
Seated in a corner of the restaurant, Pizzi and Sollecito are seen chatting, "sitting next to each other and whispering," according to the same court documents.
As for Claudio Marco Campellone, after having also escaped a first attempt at murder in 2013, he was “literally strafed in front of his home”, in the Rivière-des-Prairies sector, on September 18, 2015, reports La Presse.
This young man of 24 years, "rising star" of the Mafia, who had already served a prison sentence for his role in a drug trafficking network linked to Giuseppe De Vito, had changed sides to join that of Sollecito.
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• Has anyone previously heard of this ballsy 24 year old?
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Were Valiquette, Callocchia (Tony Coloc) and Campellone the victims of reprisals from a rival clan? That’s not what Andrew Scoppa thinks.
“The first time they tried it in 2013, Tony Roommate was supposed to go meet guys related to Rizzutos at a diner when he was shot in the parking lot. But he got away with it.
So on December 1, 2014, Roommate was with Pizzi in another restaurant. Pizzi was supposed to get shot too, but his urge to go to the bathroom saved his life. Look at the police affidavits from the Magot Inquiry, they are written. The police had questioned him. Some people in the Mafia suspected him of setting up Roommate that day.
But no.
How do I know? This order came from Steve Sauce and it was carried out by my brother and a black man.
I knew that, as luck would have it, the surveillance cameras in the restaurant weren't working, ”Andrew said with a smirk, a point that police sources confirmed to us. And what about Campellone, to whom Scoppa attributes violent crimes for which this young man has never been arrested or charged?
“Roger Valiquette got shot by Campellone. It was a kid who worked with my brother. Valiquette had done attract to a so-called St-Hubert to meet a guy nicknamed “Dutch”.
And of course, on September 18, 2015, it was Campellone’s turn to be eliminated, ”Scoppa replies, reiterating that his brother Salvatore is involved in this crime.
“Steve Sauce cleared the contract because Campellone and two other guys tried to get my brother through in July 2015,” Andrew explains calmly. Sauce had promised Salvatore the moon after he took out Roommate, so he couldn't deny him revenge. They had tried my brother in a garage where there were cameras, but he saw the gunman and escaped. Sauce approved the contract, although at one point he almost viewed Campellone as his own son. He had given her a Rolex watch, but he took it back. It wasn't long after that that things drastically changed… "In the fall of 2015, I was pressured a lot to get out of business. Nick Spagnolo and Steve Sauce have guaranteed me a large sum of money from the members of the Table [made up of the leaders of the narcotics market] as compensation. They still owe it to me. And it was around this time that Salvatore knew Steve was plotting to take out him and me. It's written in black and white in police documents ...
"The shenanigans to which Scoppa refers are detailed in court documents filed as evidence in court in support of the planned Magot inquiry. In particular, the afternoon
On August 20, 2015, the police intercepted wiretapping conversations at 6977, boulevard Saint-Laurent, in downtown Montreal, the building that houses the office of lawyer Loris Cavaliere's office.
Three individuals are then discussing, handling papers and cellular devices in the conference room of the office: Stefano Sollecito, Leonardo Rizzuto and Gregory Woolley.
This “summit meeting” of August 20, 2015 must be seen as a “meeting” of the leaders of organized crime, analyzes Judge Daniel Bédard a few months later:
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“All of these conversations establish a context of criminality which he does not is not allowed to doubt. They all deal, if one can put it that way, with the day-to-day problems associated with the management of criminal activities related to the sale of cocaine in controlled territories.
Obviously, communications relating to the sale and distribution of cocaine, to the problems resulting from the control and distribution of the various territories, notably Rivière-des-Prairies.
Confidence issues with some who seem to be playing a double game or others who may be talking to the police.
Mr. Stefano Sollecito is very talkative about intercepted communications.
He explains who leads, who is untrustworthy and what he can do. He wants the structure put in place by Vito Rizzuto to be respected and is not convinced that Leonardo has the stature required to replace his father.
As for Mr. Leonardo Rizzuto, less talkative and untimely than Stefano Sollecito and Gregory Woolley, he participated fully in the meeting of August 20, 2015 and participated in the conversations after that date.
"All these communications simply illustrate the daily of organized crime with its stewardship problems," continues the magistrate, "and the participation of MM. Sollecito and Rizzuto, among others, in the conversations demonstrates the positioning of the two inmates in the organization: they are decision makers. "
What do these organized crime bosses say wrong about the Scoppa brothers?
The court documents relate their discussion as follows: Stefano wants to stick to the agenda of Vito, Leonardo's father.
Stefano mentions that they are the ones who decide, Gregory, Stefano and Leonardo, to run the city and Greg even talks about using violence to keep control of it.
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• Woolley controls the gangs, and because all the Hells are locked up, is the most senior liaison they have to the street, plus he had Vitos trust....
• His association with the Italians, actually undermines his power base either within the gangs, or amongst other bikers, I'm thinking amongst other bikers.....
Chapter 12 cont......
There is talk of rent and tax during the conversation and links with bikers and Italians. […] Also, Greg tells about his association with the Italians […], that it makes people jealous. They no longer trust Andrea and Salvatore Scoppa. [They] doubt there is a mole among [them]. Stefano mentions that the problem needs to be fixed quickly. […] It is also a question of deciding whether they will eliminate Salvatore Scoppa.
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Stefano mentions that "Sal" should be beware and Greg adds that he's the one stealing it. Greg doesn't trust him because “Sal says it all”.
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• I believe Woolley thought Sal Scoppa was a rat ...
Chapter 12 cont........
Greg mentions to Stefano that if he wants him to do it, he's going to do it, talking about eliminating someone, talking about the mole, because that was Vito's decision too, as Stefano says.
Stefano mentions that they are in agreement to put Salvatore Scoppa off the streets and Greg says it deserves a bullet in the chest, that's what [they] are doing to guard the town.
But Leo doesn't agree, which makes Greg react. “My brother lost his mind hearing this. He wanted to kill them all, "Andrew admits, adding that over the following weeks there was" leakage "of information in the criminal community as to the content of this meeting. The tension then rises several notches within the Mafia “family”.
Mr. Cavaliere’s law firm was the target of a Molotov cocktail on September 29, 2015, and two cafes frequented by Stefano Sollecito were also the subject of arson during this period.
The situation is becoming worrying enough that the police are going to ask Stefano Sollecito to "calm things down" on the pitch. While spying on cell phones used by the latter, the police observed that the chief of Mafia operations are particularly on guard during this hot fall.
For example, on October 23, 2015, at 6:23 p.m., Stefano Sollecito asked his spouse to open the garage door of their residence in Mascouche, because he was coming.
He also asks her to “look out the window to see if she sees people in the vehicles and if she recognizes the vehicles outside”. On October 31, at 1:10 p.m., in a text message to his wife, Sollecito told her that he was very angry: he came to the house for nothing because she was not there. He will be back the next day, he adds, adding that "it is dangerous for him to be home alone".
On November 6, 2015, Sollecito was notified by police investigators that he was the target of a murder plot, while he was in the presence of Loris Cavaliere.
The same police warning will be served on Leonardo Rizzuto, whose life is also in danger. Finally, on the morning of November 19, 2015, officers from the Montreal Regional Mixed Squad announced that a series of arrests had been made early in the morning following the completion of the Magot and Mastiff inquiries.
Several alleged leaders of organized crime in Montreal face charges of gangsterism and drug conspiracy, including Stefano Sollecito, Leonardo Rizzuto, Gregory Woolley and Loris Cavaliere, referred to as consigliere of the Sicilian clan.
At a press conference, the officers took the opportunity to send a message to "those who would be tempted to take over ": the police already know them and will keep an eye on them, they warn, refraining from naming the Scoppa brothers.
During the arrest of Leonardo Rizzuto at his residence in Laval, we later learned, the police seized five grams of cocaine in small sachets which are in the inside pocket of a Hugo Boss brand jacket.
They also seize two semi-automatic pistols, one of which is loaded and the serial number has been canceled, as well as ammunition. These two prohibited weapons are discovered in the cupboard above the refrigerator.
During the search of Stefano Sollecito's home, two bulletproof vests were seized from a cabinet, along with five money transfer records totaling $ 450,000. At the end of winter 2016, Judge Bédard rejected the requests for provisional release filed by Stefano Sollecito and Leonardo Rizzuto and ordered their detention until further notice.
In its decision, the court qualifies as “surprising” the financial profile of Sollecito, while specifying that the head of operations of the mafia is seriously ill: He has not worked since 2013, according to the information given during his passport application in November 2015.
The investigator adds that this passport request is an urgent request according to the verification made While he declared that he had been a director at Céramique 440 since 2008, in his passport application in 2008, he declared income of $ 53,679 in 2014 and traded for nearly $ 2,500,000 in chips at the Casino between January 2014 and November 2015 , for losses of nearly $ 86,000, with check discounts as detailed in the document from the Casino de Montréal.
He lives in a residence valued at nearly $ 600,000 which he does not own and for which there is no lease. He drives a 2015 Range Rover brand car and his wife drives a 2016 branded vehicle of the same brand. The two vehicles, each worth over $ 80,000, get paid.
Without going into more detail with the financial profile [...], one thing is clear: Mr. Stefano Sollecito's lifestyle does not match his status as a worker and his income tax returns.
From the evidence against him we can infer a link between criminal activities and his lifestyle. Mr. Stefano Sollecito suffers from cancer, including a tumor in the sciatic nerve with several metastases to the lungs.
Special arrangements for his transportation between the detention center and the palace have been in place since the start of the investigation, as well as for his comfort during hearings.
The The Tribunal was advised, at the start of the investigation, that the gentleman was to be met shortly by a medical team including an oncologist. The latest assessment submitted confirms a life expectancy of just over 12 months without treatment.
It should be noted that the latest treatments have not given convincing results, in that the disease continues to progress, but slowly. The Tribunal cannot ignore the fact that Mr. Sollecito, well aware of his state of health, continues, as evidenced by telephone conversations, his criminal activities.
While the two mafia leaders remain imprisoned, several veterans of their clan are in turn murdered by bullets.
On March 1, 2016, Lorenzo Giordano, the former holder of the Book, was shot dead in Laval in the parking lot of the gymnasium where he was going to train.
Then, on May 27, it was none other than Stefano Sollecito's father who was killed, as Le Journal de Montréal reported in an article on June 3, 2016: For the fifth time in as many years, the bells of a Montreal church rang in memory of a mafia leader yesterday at noon, while 200 relatives of Rocco Sollecito went to pay him a last tribute.
The funeral of the 67-year-old, acting mafia operations chief and clan elder Rizzuto, took place at Notre-Dame-de-Pompéi Church in the Ahuntsic district. Two of the victim's three sons, his eldest Giuseppe and his youngest Mario, were among the first to walk out onto the forecourt as porters carried Rocco Sollecito's coffin after a 45-minute ceremony.
The prison authorities, however, did not allow his other son, Stefano, to come and pay tribute to his memory.
The 48-year-old man, who was the head of the "executive table" of Italian organized crime in Montreal before his arrest for gangsterism last November, remains in prison in Rivière-des-Prairies while awaiting trial.
Several SPVM patrollers ensured a discreet presence around the church. Not far from the rally, members of the Montreal Regional Joint Organized Crime Squad and police intelligence took advantage of the event to update their Mafia "photo album".
They notably noted the presence of Libertina Rizzuto and Giovanna Cammalleri, respectively the daughter and wife of Vito Rizzuto, who arrived in a luxury German-made SUV. Faithful ally of the godfather, Rocco Sollecito had attended the funeral of Vito Rizzuto, conquered by the disease in December 2013.
Rocco Sollecito is the 27th murder victim linked to the power war that has torn the Montreal mafia for seven years, according to our information.
Aspiring godfather Salvatore Montagna, ex-mafia number 2 Joe Di Maulo and a strongman from the Rizzuto clan who wanted to take over the mafia, Lorenzo Giordano, all had the same bloody end as him. On the morning of May 27, around 8:30 a.m., Rocco Sollecito left the condo tower where he lives near the 440 Public Market, in the Chomedey neighborhood, and got behind the wheel of his luxury white BMW SUV.
Driving on Boulevard Saint-Elzéar Ouest, he came to a stop at the sight of the mandatory stop sign located at the intersection of rue Anna-de-Noailles, 500 meters from the Laval police headquarters.
This was a routine familiar to the shooter, who presumably watched his target long enough to know his whereabouts. At the intersection where the victim stopped, there is a bus shelter from the Société de transport de Laval.
And inside, the gunman waited patiently for the 60-year-old's arrival in the white SUV. He then got out and fired a first projectile through the window on the front passenger's side. Witnesses heard six to seven more shots.
The black series continued on October 15 of the same year, at the end of the afternoon, in Laval. This time the victim is Vincenzo Spagnolo, 65, who was a longtime best friend and confidant of the late godfather Vito Rizzuto.
His son Nicola Spagnolo, who would have sat at the “management table” of the Montreal mafia in 2015, is considered by the police to be close to Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito.
To add insult to injury to his family and entourage, Vincenzo Spagnolo, a reception hall owner who was not directly involved in Mafia affairs, was shot at at least one gun projectile while he was in his own residence in the Vimont district.
Such an affront, also suffered by the Rizzuto family when Patriarch Nicolo was shot and murdered while in his kitchen in 2010, runs counter to an unwritten law in the underworld.
"He had several," drops Andrew Scoppa, referring to this series of settling of scores that his brother Salvatore would have orchestrated at the expense of the Rizzuto-Sollecito clan.
“When they arrested Steve Sauce, it literally saved his life to be in jail. While Steve was in prison, his father, Rocco Sollecito, got shot. Like Giordano and Spagnolo. My brother knew that Steve Sauce and his father worked as a team. And he believed his father approved of the contract Steve had put on my brother's head. Because the father must have told him that sooner or later Salvatore would risk putting them all in the shit. In the end, it was Steve Sauce who was really responsible for his father's death. Not my brother. “It’s because you wanted to kill my brother and he knew it!” He exclaims, calling out Stefano Sollecito directly as if he were addressing him.
"There's no way you can make peace or even try to make a connection with a guy like Steve Sauce. You must beware of him. If he tells you that it is okay and that everything is forgotten after a conflict, this is where you need to be extra vigilant and prepare for an attack. You can't fight a clean fight with someone who fights by cheating. You can't assume he's going to play by the rules. You have to play hard with someone like him. Me, I call it self defense.
"But on October 26, 2016 and February 1, 2017, it was the damn cops who put me in the shit by arresting me and blaming me for something I didn't do.
They robbed me of 15 months of my life by sending me to jail! I am so intabarnac (? Huh?) after them, you have no idea. It left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. The rest, it was a fucking disaster ...
seems like when they where under joe massino and the bonanno flag from when vito was inducted into the usa lcn 1977 till massino flipped 2004 he and that big crew proserd
Thanks again for keeping this going! I love how Scoppa goes all out and even implicates the possible triggermen in various murders. A clear picture of the war was already starting to emerge, but this clears up a lot, espcially with the post-war murders. It is crazy how he even throws his own brother under the bus and mentions hits he had done.
Thanks for breaking down these chapters for us. I just pray that one day this book gets a proper translation into English! One thing in that recent chapter that isn't correct though is that bit about Salvatore Brunetti receiving Hells Angels membership in 2018. He got it back in 2000 when the HA were offering patch-for-patch to the Rock Machine in an attempt to end the war. Brunetti wasn't a Rock Machine but he was a big time drug dealer and a boss in the Alliance against the HA. The error could be due to translation somehow though in fairness.
Seems like Stefano has been the true boss for quite awhile now. Kinda disappointed we haven't heard more about Acardi unless that's coming up. If im not mistaken he's now the most senior member of the Rizzuto's and last of the old guard. Hopefully some things are revealed about him coming up, like where did he stand in all this, his involvement?
As of 2016, Arcadi appears to have been on good terms with Frank Cotroni Jr. and Tony Mucci, along with Buffalo underboss Domenico Violi, as Violi volunteered to introduce a Bonanno member to all three of them.
Hired_Goonz wrote: ↑Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:28 pm
Thanks for breaking down these chapters for us. I just pray that one day this book gets a proper translation into English! One thing in that recent chapter that isn't correct though is that bit about Salvatore Brunetti receiving Hells Angels membership in 2018. He got it back in 2000 when the HA were offering patch-for-patch to the Rock Machine in an attempt to end the war. Brunetti wasn't a Rock Machine but he was a big time drug dealer and a boss in the Alliance against the HA. The error could be due to translation somehow though in fairness.
I think Brunetti was a key member of Dark Circle, he was the one who betrayed the group to the Hells Angel's, told them who the leaders were. I read it as they rewarded him with a full patch.
And you are correct, the translation falters in certain places, it's one of the reasons I started to put the Chapters up, to be sure I'm not misreading anything, and also so everyone can have access to the same information and draw their own conclusions. We can come to a better consensus that way, I think.
