Buffalo/Ontario Mob Acitivity

[antimafia]

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Payé 10 000$ pour tuer un mafieux, il se trompe de cible et tire sur un aîné
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/ ... ur-un-aine
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I will cross-post.

[antimafia]

Cross-posting. Please see viewtopic.php?t=12977
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From Calabria to Canada: Explosive New Crave Original Docuseries, MAFIA: MOST WANTED, Premieres March 7
https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press ... s-march-7/

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

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

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

[B.]

I only check this section, charts, and photos so here is good. Thank you!

[antimafia]

Cross-posting. Please see viewtopic.php?t=12977
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From Calabria to Canada: Explosive New Crave Original Docuseries, MAFIA: MOST WANTED, Premieres March 7
https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press ... s-march-7/

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

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

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

I only check this section, charts, and photos so here is good. Thank you!

All,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[B.]

Thanks for the notes, antimafia.

[antimafia]

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

Chuck Yanover, in his own words:

https://x.com/CraveCanada/status/1902066395132694667

Please let me know whether you are unable to view the video clip, in which case I'll type out Yanover's exact words.

[Tonyd621]

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

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

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

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

I only check this section, charts, and photos so here is good. Thank you!

All,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's free on flixtor.to for those living in the states. I haven't watched, but the trailer. There is 3 or 4 episodes listed out available to watch