After months of relative peace within Montreal’s Mafia circles, one of its members was fatally shot in a restaurant in Rivière-des-Prairies Monday afternoon.
Police sources have confirmed that the city’s latest homicide was Tonino Callocchia, 53, a man who survived an attempt on his life in February 2013 and has been described in past parole decisions as “an active member of the Italian Mafia.”
Callocchia was pronounced dead at the scene of the Monday afternoon shooting, at around 1:30 p.m., at Bistro XO Plus on Henri-Bourassa Blvd. E. near the corner of LJ-Forget Ave.
“He was a big player (within the Mafia). That is certain,” said one police source on Monday.
Montreal police spokesperson Raphael Bergeron said the victim was struck by several bullets fired by one gunman or possibly more. The shooter, or shooters, fled the scene before police arrived and, as of late Monday afternoon, the Montreal police had not released any descriptions of possible suspects.
Callocchia spent most of the 1990s behind bars serving a 21-year aggregate sentence for a series of offences related to drug trafficking and money laundering.
His known ties to the Mafia date to the 1980s. In 1994, he was charged, and later convicted, in a money laundering case that linked him to Vincenzo (Jimmy) Di Maulo, the brother of Joseph Di Maulo, an influential Mafia boss who was killed, at age 70, in front of his home in Blainville on Nov. 4, 2012. That was a slaying police sources have theorized was a response to the many attacks on the Rizzuto organization in the years preceding it.
According to the provincial business registry, Callocchia was the owner of a numbered company, 9166-3807 Quebec Inc., that was involved in real estate management and another company called Construction T.D.P. It was his involvement in both of those fields that saw Callocchia charged, in May 2013, with extortion and uttering threats to a woman who was close to Raynald Desjardins, an influential Mob figure awaiting trial for the murder of Salvatore Montagna, a man who tried to take control of the Mafia in Montreal before he was gunned down in November 2011.
A hearing in the extortion case was held late last month at the Montreal courthouse and Callocchia’s preliminary hearing was set to be heard in September 2015.
He was also reportedly a close associate of Roger Valiquette, a loan shark who was killed in Laval in 2013 in a homicide that remains unsolved.
According to provincial court records, one of Callocchia’s first arrests came in 1985, along with four members of the Armeni Clan, a group of well-known drug traffickers tied to the Mafia. He was acquitted in that case, but was arrested again, in 1990, by the Montreal police and charged with conspiracy and possession of cocaine. He ended up pleading guilty to both counts and received an eight-year prison term.
In 1994, Callocchia was arrested along with 56 other people as part of a major RCMP investigation that targeted several people tied to the Rizzuto organization who were involved in large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering. Following a lengthy trial before a jury, Callocchia was found guilty of acting as an intermediary for Vincenzo Di Maulo, who was laundering drug money through businesses.
Callocchia ended up with a four-year sentence in the money laundering case and soon after he learned federal authorities had been holding back on another case, dating to 1994, where the RCMP had evidence he tried to smuggle more than 160 kilograms of cocaine into Canada through an airport in Toronto.
Callocchia waited about a year before pleading guilty to conspiracy and other drug smuggling-related charges, in 1998, and ended up with a 10-year sentence. With everything combined, he ended up having to serve an aggregate sentence of 21 years in all.
When he appeared before the Parole Board of Canada in January 2001, he was described as and intelligent, well-structured and “an active member of the Italian Mafia. The offences you have committed are large-scale and they required organization and planning at a level that only a highly organized group can hope to execute.” He was also accused of having committed several crimes, related to contraband, while behind bars.
He also took college-level business administration courses while serving the sentence after being granted permission to take unescorted leaves from a penitentiary. The courses were seen as a step in a positive direction, but Callocchia frustrated his parole officers by refusing to be transparent about where he actually went while on some of his leaves.
When he was granted full parole, in 2002, he told the board that he had no financial concerns because of an inheritance from his grandfather and the sale of a large piece of real estate that belonged to his mother. He also told the board that, at that point, his wife had run a profitable business for the previous six years. By then, he had convinced the parole board that he was motivated “to follow the rules of society” and that the financial situation that awaited him on the outside would steer him away from a life of crime.
The homicide was the 24th reported in Montreal this year.
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Re: Tonino Callocchia murdered
Im beginning to think Rizzuto's influence and power have been underrated. I mean guys that sided against him are still getting clipped after Vito's death a year ago. When somebody is carrying out your hit list a year after you are in the grave then i think you had probably as much or more power than any boss in LCN history.
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Like REMO says....why take a chance..?Teflon john wrote:Im beginning to think Rizzuto's influence and power have been underrated. I mean guys that sided against him are still getting clipped after Vito's death a year ago. When somebody is carrying out your hit list a year after you are in the grave then i think you had probably as much or more power than any boss in LCN history.
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Mobster gunned down in Montreal was part of a ‘dissident faction’ trying to overthrow Rizzuto: documents
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/12/02 ... documents/
The latest victim of Montreal’s mob violence — shot dead by masked gunmen Monday in a Rivière-des-Prairies restaurant — was recently named in court in Italy as a member of the rebellious faction of mobsters fighting to overthrow Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto.
Antonino Callocchia, usually called Tonino or Tony, was hit Monday afternoon by multiple bullets from one or more masked gunmen who then fled.
It was the second attempt on Mr. Callocchia’s life; on Feb. 1, 2013, he was seriously injured in a similar ambush in a restaurant in Laval.
Born Nov. 6, 1961, his ties to the Mafia in Montreal have been documented for decades. Part of his underworld strength came through his link by marriage to the Armeni clan of well-known mob-linked drug traffickers. One of his first arrests, according to Quebec court records, was in 1985 alongside four members of the clan, although he was acquitted.
He was also arrested in a landmark money laundering and drug trafficking case in Montreal in 1994 alongside notable mobsters and lawyers who helped invest mob money linked to Mr. Rizzuto.
But before his death, the enigmatic man was moving from the criminal sidelines and becoming more central to the city’s underworld.
The move brought increased scrutiny over his standing and allegiance in the Mafia war that has rocked Montreal — a sweeping power struggle between Mr. Rizzuto and rebels trying to oust him when he was imprisoned in the United States in 2006. The war went badly against the Rizzutos until the boss returned to Canada in October 2012 and fought to reclaim his position of power.
Some saw Mr. Callocchia as a Rizzuto loyalist and even a possible successor to Vito Rizzuto — who died of natural causes in December 2013. His involvement in a case of extortion against a woman with ties to Raynald Desjardins, a gangster named in Italian court as the leader of the rebellious faction, furthered that view.
Others saw his closeness to Calabrian dissidents unfriendly towards the Sicilian-born Rizzuto as well as to Joseph Di Maulo, an influential Mafia boss killed in 2012, likely for not remaining loyal to Mr. Rizzuto, as a sign he too had strayed.
Mr. Callocchia, however, was subject to a recent assessment by the anti-Mafia police in Sicily, the birthplace of the Mafia, as they investigated the murders in Palermo of two mobsters from Canada.
Police in Italy are analyzing reams of secretly recorded telephone calls made last year by a mobster from Canada who was living in Sicily. The chatty mobster, Juan Ramon Fernandez, was close to Mr. Rizzuto for decades and spoke disrespectfully of Mr. Callocchia when talking to other Rizzuto loyalists.
Mr. Fernandez called him “a fucking idiot,” according to wiretap transcripts obtained by the National Post.
A few days after the 2013 attack on Mr. Callocchia, Mr. Fernandez phoned for an update from a friend in Montreal, identified in court as Antonio Carbone who was described as a veteran Montreal mobster close to the Rizzutos.
The two spoke of the attacks against enemies of Vito Rizzuto; Mr. Callocchia was named on a list of perceived opponents.
The authorities in Italy note that Mr. Callocchia was shot the first time while Mr. Rizzuto was travelling to the Dominican Republic to meet in privacy with acolytes to plot revenge against those who were disloyal to him and his family while he was in prison.
While Mr. Rizzuto was out of the country, “the offensive against the ‘dissident’ faction was unleashed,” says a report on the Mafia war prepared by the Carabinieri ROS, Italy’s anti-Mafia police unit, and presented in court last month.
Monday’s murder of Mr. Callocchia came after months of relative peace within Montreal’s underworld after shocking displays of murder and violence.
Mr. Callocchia was pronounced dead around 1:30 p.m. inside Bistro XO Plus, a restaurant in a plaze on Henri-Bourassa Blvd. E. near LJ-Forget Ave.
“He was a big player [within the Mafia]. That is certain,” said a Montreal police source.
According to Quebec’s business registry, Mr. Callocchia was the owner of a numbered company, 9166-3807 Quebec Inc., involved in real estate management, and another company called Construction T.D.P.
In 1994, Mr. Callocchia was arrested along with 56 other people as part of a major RCMP drug trafficking and money laundering investigation against the Rizzuto organization. Following a lengthy trial Mr. Callocchia was found guilty of acting as an intermediary for Vincenzo Di Maulo (brother of Joseph), who was laundering drug money through various businesses.
Mr. Callocchia received a four-year sentence but authorities then moved against him on a second case, dating to 1994, where the RCMP had evidence he tried to smuggle more than 160 kilograms of cocaine into Canada through a Toronto airport.
He pleaded guilty to drug smuggling-related charges in 1998. With everything combined, he ended up having to serve an aggregate sentence of 21 years in all.
When he appeared before the Parole Board of Canada in 2001 he was described as intelligent, well-structured and “an active member of the Italian Mafia.”
“The offences you have committed are large-scale and they required organization and planning at a level that only a highly organized group can hope to execute,” the board said. He took college-level business administration courses while serving the sentence.
When he was granted full parole in 2002 he told the board that he had no financial concerns because of an inheritance from his grandfather and the sale of a large piece of real estate that belonged to his mother.
The board believed he was now motivated “to follow the rules of society” away from a life of crime.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/12/02 ... documents/
The latest victim of Montreal’s mob violence — shot dead by masked gunmen Monday in a Rivière-des-Prairies restaurant — was recently named in court in Italy as a member of the rebellious faction of mobsters fighting to overthrow Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto.
Antonino Callocchia, usually called Tonino or Tony, was hit Monday afternoon by multiple bullets from one or more masked gunmen who then fled.
It was the second attempt on Mr. Callocchia’s life; on Feb. 1, 2013, he was seriously injured in a similar ambush in a restaurant in Laval.
Born Nov. 6, 1961, his ties to the Mafia in Montreal have been documented for decades. Part of his underworld strength came through his link by marriage to the Armeni clan of well-known mob-linked drug traffickers. One of his first arrests, according to Quebec court records, was in 1985 alongside four members of the clan, although he was acquitted.
He was also arrested in a landmark money laundering and drug trafficking case in Montreal in 1994 alongside notable mobsters and lawyers who helped invest mob money linked to Mr. Rizzuto.
But before his death, the enigmatic man was moving from the criminal sidelines and becoming more central to the city’s underworld.
The move brought increased scrutiny over his standing and allegiance in the Mafia war that has rocked Montreal — a sweeping power struggle between Mr. Rizzuto and rebels trying to oust him when he was imprisoned in the United States in 2006. The war went badly against the Rizzutos until the boss returned to Canada in October 2012 and fought to reclaim his position of power.
Some saw Mr. Callocchia as a Rizzuto loyalist and even a possible successor to Vito Rizzuto — who died of natural causes in December 2013. His involvement in a case of extortion against a woman with ties to Raynald Desjardins, a gangster named in Italian court as the leader of the rebellious faction, furthered that view.
Others saw his closeness to Calabrian dissidents unfriendly towards the Sicilian-born Rizzuto as well as to Joseph Di Maulo, an influential Mafia boss killed in 2012, likely for not remaining loyal to Mr. Rizzuto, as a sign he too had strayed.
Mr. Callocchia, however, was subject to a recent assessment by the anti-Mafia police in Sicily, the birthplace of the Mafia, as they investigated the murders in Palermo of two mobsters from Canada.
Police in Italy are analyzing reams of secretly recorded telephone calls made last year by a mobster from Canada who was living in Sicily. The chatty mobster, Juan Ramon Fernandez, was close to Mr. Rizzuto for decades and spoke disrespectfully of Mr. Callocchia when talking to other Rizzuto loyalists.
Mr. Fernandez called him “a fucking idiot,” according to wiretap transcripts obtained by the National Post.
A few days after the 2013 attack on Mr. Callocchia, Mr. Fernandez phoned for an update from a friend in Montreal, identified in court as Antonio Carbone who was described as a veteran Montreal mobster close to the Rizzutos.
The two spoke of the attacks against enemies of Vito Rizzuto; Mr. Callocchia was named on a list of perceived opponents.
The authorities in Italy note that Mr. Callocchia was shot the first time while Mr. Rizzuto was travelling to the Dominican Republic to meet in privacy with acolytes to plot revenge against those who were disloyal to him and his family while he was in prison.
While Mr. Rizzuto was out of the country, “the offensive against the ‘dissident’ faction was unleashed,” says a report on the Mafia war prepared by the Carabinieri ROS, Italy’s anti-Mafia police unit, and presented in court last month.
Monday’s murder of Mr. Callocchia came after months of relative peace within Montreal’s underworld after shocking displays of murder and violence.
Mr. Callocchia was pronounced dead around 1:30 p.m. inside Bistro XO Plus, a restaurant in a plaze on Henri-Bourassa Blvd. E. near LJ-Forget Ave.
“He was a big player [within the Mafia]. That is certain,” said a Montreal police source.
According to Quebec’s business registry, Mr. Callocchia was the owner of a numbered company, 9166-3807 Quebec Inc., involved in real estate management, and another company called Construction T.D.P.
In 1994, Mr. Callocchia was arrested along with 56 other people as part of a major RCMP drug trafficking and money laundering investigation against the Rizzuto organization. Following a lengthy trial Mr. Callocchia was found guilty of acting as an intermediary for Vincenzo Di Maulo (brother of Joseph), who was laundering drug money through various businesses.
Mr. Callocchia received a four-year sentence but authorities then moved against him on a second case, dating to 1994, where the RCMP had evidence he tried to smuggle more than 160 kilograms of cocaine into Canada through a Toronto airport.
He pleaded guilty to drug smuggling-related charges in 1998. With everything combined, he ended up having to serve an aggregate sentence of 21 years in all.
When he appeared before the Parole Board of Canada in 2001 he was described as intelligent, well-structured and “an active member of the Italian Mafia.”
“The offences you have committed are large-scale and they required organization and planning at a level that only a highly organized group can hope to execute,” the board said. He took college-level business administration courses while serving the sentence.
When he was granted full parole in 2002 he told the board that he had no financial concerns because of an inheritance from his grandfather and the sale of a large piece of real estate that belonged to his mother.
The board believed he was now motivated “to follow the rules of society” away from a life of crime.
Re: Tonino Callocchia murdered
This new article by Daniel Renaud states that Callochia had sided with Montagna and was collecting 'pizzo' on behalf of Montagna. He had threatened a businesswoman close to Desjardins and told her that Montagna was expecting an additional tax. This is interesting because it confirms that Montagna was (or believed to be) the new boss of the Montreal Mafia.
Mafia revelations from beyond the grave
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justi ... tombe-.php
An aspiring godfather Salvatore Montagna was murdered in November 2011 in Charlemagne, would have increased a tax imposed by the Mafia to construction contractors after his arrival in Quebec in spring 2009.
This at least shows that a conversation involving the Mafia killed on Monday in Montreal, Tonino Callocchia. The recording of this discussion was to be used as evidence against him in a trial for attempted extortion and intimidation at the site of a former partner of the boss Raynald Desjardins.
In his conversation with the engineer Marlène Girard, the latter has recorded without his knowledge and that La Presse has obtained extracts Callocchia says Montagna would call "$ 2.50" over all contractors without giving more precision this tax increase that resembles a pizzo.
Montagna, former acting head of the Bonanno clan of New York, was deported from the United States to Canada in April 2009. Shortly after his arrival in Montreal, he has approached some established mafia and has become a chef. He allied with other mafia organizations in order to reverse the Rizzuto, who clung to power, though weakened by the Colosseum operation and dissent.
But the fragile alliance of rebel leaders erupted in 2011. According to a police theory, a conflict then broke out between the clans of Raynald Desjardins and Montagna. The latter was killed in November 2011. A month later, Desjardins and his alleged accomplices were arrested and charged with murder. The trial is expected to take place in 2015.
"Very sad"
In his conversation with Ms. Girard, held in spring 2013 in a restaurant in Pointe-aux-Trembles, Callocchia back on the days of the revolt against the Rizzuto. He said the clan leaders who were killing were friends for 35 years, "as brothers and sisters, and that one day, some have decided to do their own thing, it was seen as a rape, that people have died or become disabled, as families have lost fathers and son, and that many people cried. "
"It's a story that is very sad, it's not over yet," he said, comparing the situation to the taste of bitter food that can remain in the mouth for long.
It also refers to children Raynald Desjardins - "who grew up with our children" - and invites the guy to call his compares to settle his affairs.
Callochia also talks about Arcuri brothers, owners of the company Ital-Gelati suspected of having taken part in the attempted coup against the Rizzuto and said of them that they are now persona non grata. "There is no one who buys ice cream," says Callocchia, adding that his group demands money Domenico Arcuri, but the latter is not in town, does not meet the .dropoff window
At this, Marlène Girard takes his phone and calls Domenico Arcuri. It then tends Callocchia the device, which then talks to the businessman.
He told Domenico Arcuri as payments were to be made have not been made, as companies want to be paid. He added that he is ready to meet it as "accountant", he can join him everywhere but not in the United States, "because Americans do not want it."
The money Carboneutre
The claims raised by Callocchia concern Carboneutre decontamination firm in which Raynald Desjardins, Domenico Arcuri and several businessmen close to them were involved in 2008-2009. The adventure had ended in fiasco.
When Marlene Girard meeting in 2013, he seems to believe that as Carboneutre manager, she is still in contact with Raynald Desjardins and could help many investors to get their money invested in the decontamination firm.
He said that some of those who have invested in Carboneutre more than 1 million to "us", without specifying exactly who he refers. It simply represent "the Italian community" and suggests that it could "blow the teeth" of Ms. Girard.
The latter replied that it owes nothing to anybody and has never been involved in the "scam" around Carboneutre. "I'm not in the mafia me," she insists.
Towards the end of the conversation, Callocchia said in an almost prescient he is a messenger, and that sometimes they shoot a messenger.
Mafia revelations from beyond the grave
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justi ... tombe-.php
An aspiring godfather Salvatore Montagna was murdered in November 2011 in Charlemagne, would have increased a tax imposed by the Mafia to construction contractors after his arrival in Quebec in spring 2009.
This at least shows that a conversation involving the Mafia killed on Monday in Montreal, Tonino Callocchia. The recording of this discussion was to be used as evidence against him in a trial for attempted extortion and intimidation at the site of a former partner of the boss Raynald Desjardins.
In his conversation with the engineer Marlène Girard, the latter has recorded without his knowledge and that La Presse has obtained extracts Callocchia says Montagna would call "$ 2.50" over all contractors without giving more precision this tax increase that resembles a pizzo.
Montagna, former acting head of the Bonanno clan of New York, was deported from the United States to Canada in April 2009. Shortly after his arrival in Montreal, he has approached some established mafia and has become a chef. He allied with other mafia organizations in order to reverse the Rizzuto, who clung to power, though weakened by the Colosseum operation and dissent.
But the fragile alliance of rebel leaders erupted in 2011. According to a police theory, a conflict then broke out between the clans of Raynald Desjardins and Montagna. The latter was killed in November 2011. A month later, Desjardins and his alleged accomplices were arrested and charged with murder. The trial is expected to take place in 2015.
"Very sad"
In his conversation with Ms. Girard, held in spring 2013 in a restaurant in Pointe-aux-Trembles, Callocchia back on the days of the revolt against the Rizzuto. He said the clan leaders who were killing were friends for 35 years, "as brothers and sisters, and that one day, some have decided to do their own thing, it was seen as a rape, that people have died or become disabled, as families have lost fathers and son, and that many people cried. "
"It's a story that is very sad, it's not over yet," he said, comparing the situation to the taste of bitter food that can remain in the mouth for long.
It also refers to children Raynald Desjardins - "who grew up with our children" - and invites the guy to call his compares to settle his affairs.
Callochia also talks about Arcuri brothers, owners of the company Ital-Gelati suspected of having taken part in the attempted coup against the Rizzuto and said of them that they are now persona non grata. "There is no one who buys ice cream," says Callocchia, adding that his group demands money Domenico Arcuri, but the latter is not in town, does not meet the .dropoff window
At this, Marlène Girard takes his phone and calls Domenico Arcuri. It then tends Callocchia the device, which then talks to the businessman.
He told Domenico Arcuri as payments were to be made have not been made, as companies want to be paid. He added that he is ready to meet it as "accountant", he can join him everywhere but not in the United States, "because Americans do not want it."
The money Carboneutre
The claims raised by Callocchia concern Carboneutre decontamination firm in which Raynald Desjardins, Domenico Arcuri and several businessmen close to them were involved in 2008-2009. The adventure had ended in fiasco.
When Marlene Girard meeting in 2013, he seems to believe that as Carboneutre manager, she is still in contact with Raynald Desjardins and could help many investors to get their money invested in the decontamination firm.
He said that some of those who have invested in Carboneutre more than 1 million to "us", without specifying exactly who he refers. It simply represent "the Italian community" and suggests that it could "blow the teeth" of Ms. Girard.
The latter replied that it owes nothing to anybody and has never been involved in the "scam" around Carboneutre. "I'm not in the mafia me," she insists.
Towards the end of the conversation, Callocchia said in an almost prescient he is a messenger, and that sometimes they shoot a messenger.
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Adrian Humphreys considers Callocchia to have been part of an anti-Rizzuto faction.
Danielle Renaud reports that Callocchia was in Vito's entourage and was in close contact with those who formed the mafia roundtable.
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http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justi ... -piege.php
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Danielle Renaud reports that Callocchia was in Vito's entourage and was in close contact with those who formed the mafia roundtable.
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http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justi ... -piege.php
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The French-language article to which I've linked below suggests that Callocchia's murder may have had something to do with being at odds with Stefano Sollecito.
Link:
http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/faitsd ... 24022.html
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This article states that Callochia was also at odds with Stefano Sollecito, who is named as Vito's successor. He seems like a guy who made a living out of switching sides.
http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/faitsd ... 24022.html
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I posted the same link two posts earlier.
More precisely, the reporter writes that Callocchia repeatedly lied to Sollecito, the latter seen by many as the next godfather.
If the reporting of Callocchia's murder teaches us anything, it is that there are such divergent views about what has happened in the Montreal underworld since Vito Rizzuto got out of jail, what has happened after his death, and what stability or instability there is and has been in the Montreal Mafia. Maybe Sollecito will succeed Rizzuto or has already succeeded him, as Callocchia's murder may have happened for a number of reasons (e.g., the two theories in the linked article) and by any one of a number of killers (as it is believed Callocchia had many enemies).
I posted the same link two posts earlier.
More precisely, the reporter writes that Callocchia repeatedly lied to Sollecito, the latter seen by many as the next godfather.
If the reporting of Callocchia's murder teaches us anything, it is that there are such divergent views about what has happened in the Montreal underworld since Vito Rizzuto got out of jail, what has happened after his death, and what stability or instability there is and has been in the Montreal Mafia. Maybe Sollecito will succeed Rizzuto or has already succeeded him, as Callocchia's murder may have happened for a number of reasons (e.g., the two theories in the linked article) and by any one of a number of killers (as it is believed Callocchia had many enemies).
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Let's blame that on my mobile phone. [emoji4]antimafia wrote:^^^^
I posted the same link two posts earlier.
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Like i said before,if people that Vito wanted whacked are still getting whacked a year after the guy died then he was a very powerful man and definately more powerful than any boss here in the U.S. is at this point in time.
Tonino Callocchia murdered
But we don't know that before Vito died, he gave orders to his loyalists as to who should be whacked in case he died of illness, murder, natural causes, etc.. Not every murder of major or minor crime figures since his release in October 2012 leads back to him.Teflon john wrote:Like i said before,if people that Vito wanted whacked are still getting whacked a year after the guy died then he was a very powerful man and definately more powerful than any boss here in the U.S. is at this point in time.
This murder of Callocchia in particular may reveal, even though there are a number of motives for his being killed, that there is infighting among so-called Rizzuto loyalists. Callocchia's visitation taking place at a funeral home other than the Rizzuto-clan-owned one notwithstanding, there seem to be some indications that he was in Vito's entourage after Vito got out of prison; Callocchia was also on a list of potential "godfather" candidates to replace Rizzuto that was published by reporter Daniel Renaud four days after Rizzuto's death in December 2013.
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Tonino Callocchia's funeral was today.
According to the article to which I've linked below and that I ran through Google Translate--see copy-and-paste results a bit farther below--representatives of the Sollecito family went to the funeral-home visitation on the weekend; Leonardo Rizzuto was at the funeral Mass today.
Link:
http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/societe/archiv ... 65739.html
So if Callocchia seemed to be on good terms with Leonardo Rizzuto and the Sollecito family, why wasn't Callocchia's visitation at the Loreto instead of at the Alfred Dallaire? (Incidentally, the journalist who stated last week that Callocchia's visitation would be at the Laval location of Magnus Poirier got the information wrong.)
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Translation (using Google Translate):
QMI Agency
08-12-2014 | 16h57 updated: 08-12-2014 | 4:57 p.m.
LAVAL - The funeral of mafia Tonino Callocchia were held in the utmost discretion in the Church of Our Lady of Divine Love-Laval on Monday afternoon.
The whole ceremony was held in Italian in front of a hundred people, including several related to the Montreal Mafia.
The 53-year-old charge of illegal loans in the greater Montreal area was shot in Rivière-des-Prairies restaurant last Monday after being lured into a trap.
During the entire time of the funeral, several close to the one we nicknamed Tony Coloc paid tribute to him.
As usual, the police intelligence services have posted several agents to take photos of those who came to show their respect to career criminal as the head of a construction company.
RIZZUTO AND SOLLECITO
One of his three daughters came to thank him publicly for having encouraged to continue studying law and become a lawyer. The celebrant, in their early thirties, even read a letter in which he referred to the Rizzuto family.
The mere mention of the name of the Montreal ex-sponsor discrete sparked reactions from the crowd.
Although our sources say Callocchia began to back the new leaders of the Montreal Mafia, we learned that emissaries of the Sollecito family went to the funeral home this weekend.
However, Stefano Sollecito, heir tipped to become the next godfather, was not seen at the funeral.
By cons, Leonardo Rizzuto, the only surviving son of Vito Rizzuto, entered breezed into the church dressed simply in jeans and a short coat.
Two men present at the Alfred Dallaire Funeral threatened to attack our photographer. Another spat on him shortly before the cortege moves off.
According to the article to which I've linked below and that I ran through Google Translate--see copy-and-paste results a bit farther below--representatives of the Sollecito family went to the funeral-home visitation on the weekend; Leonardo Rizzuto was at the funeral Mass today.
Link:
http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/societe/archiv ... 65739.html
So if Callocchia seemed to be on good terms with Leonardo Rizzuto and the Sollecito family, why wasn't Callocchia's visitation at the Loreto instead of at the Alfred Dallaire? (Incidentally, the journalist who stated last week that Callocchia's visitation would be at the Laval location of Magnus Poirier got the information wrong.)
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Translation (using Google Translate):
QMI Agency
08-12-2014 | 16h57 updated: 08-12-2014 | 4:57 p.m.
LAVAL - The funeral of mafia Tonino Callocchia were held in the utmost discretion in the Church of Our Lady of Divine Love-Laval on Monday afternoon.
The whole ceremony was held in Italian in front of a hundred people, including several related to the Montreal Mafia.
The 53-year-old charge of illegal loans in the greater Montreal area was shot in Rivière-des-Prairies restaurant last Monday after being lured into a trap.
During the entire time of the funeral, several close to the one we nicknamed Tony Coloc paid tribute to him.
As usual, the police intelligence services have posted several agents to take photos of those who came to show their respect to career criminal as the head of a construction company.
RIZZUTO AND SOLLECITO
One of his three daughters came to thank him publicly for having encouraged to continue studying law and become a lawyer. The celebrant, in their early thirties, even read a letter in which he referred to the Rizzuto family.
The mere mention of the name of the Montreal ex-sponsor discrete sparked reactions from the crowd.
Although our sources say Callocchia began to back the new leaders of the Montreal Mafia, we learned that emissaries of the Sollecito family went to the funeral home this weekend.
However, Stefano Sollecito, heir tipped to become the next godfather, was not seen at the funeral.
By cons, Leonardo Rizzuto, the only surviving son of Vito Rizzuto, entered breezed into the church dressed simply in jeans and a short coat.
Two men present at the Alfred Dallaire Funeral threatened to attack our photographer. Another spat on him shortly before the cortege moves off.
Re: Tonino Callocchia murdered
If he was really on good terms with the Sollecitos, then why didn't they attent the funeral themselves? And Leonardo attending the funeral in normal clothing to me seems quite disrespectful.