A Montreal quick guide a major events

[JeremyTheJew]

Can anyone give a quick guide of the MAJOR events or power figures from vito rizzuto death till now?

As well as the group's that are involved? From what iv heard the Siderno clan (that's a Ndrangheta clan?) Seems to be more powerful then the Sicilians now?

[furiofromnaples]

http://gangsterreport.com/body-count-in ... hit-index/

More bodies are still piling up in the decade-long Italian mob war in Montreal: after a lull in violence that lasted more than a year, two high-ranking Rizzuto crime family lieutenants have been slain in the past three months, bringing the death toll in the bloody conflict well into the triple digits. The war began in the summer of 2006, in the weeks after Montreal Godfather Vito Rizzuto’s extradition to the United States to serve a prison sentence for his role in the notorious “Three Capos” murder in New York City – the triple homicide depicted on the big screen in the movie Donnie Brasco, which took place in 1981 inside the bickering Bonanno crime family (at that point in time Rizzuto’s sponsors in the American mob).

The Top Hits (2006-2016) – A Montreal Mob War Timeline (Business Or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto’s Last War by P. Edwards & A. Nicaso)

Jan 24, 2004 – Long-reigning Canadian Godfather Vito Rizzuto arrested at his Montreal mansion, charged with his participation in the 1981 Three Capos Murders (Bonanno crime family internal purge) in New York

Aug 11, 2005 – Johnny Bertolo, a racketeer, builder and construction union rep aligned with Raynald Desjardins, Rizzuto’s longtime right-hand man and best friend, killed as he left a Montreal gym

Aug 17, 2006 – Vito Rizzuto is extradited to New York to face homicide and murder conspiracy charges, which he is convicted of and ordered to serve 5-to-10 years in prison for

Aug 30, 2006 – Rizzuto crime family enforcer Domenico Macri killed in a drive by as he sat at a traffic light in downtown Montreal

Sep 7, 2007 – Frank Velenosi, a lieutenant of Rizzuto crime underboss, Francesco (Compare Frank) Arcadi, is found stabbed to death in the trunk of his Volvo

Jan 15, 2008 – Rizzuto crime family enforcer Constantin (Big Gus) Alevizos killed

Dec 4, 2008 – Rizzuto crime family soldier Mario (Skinny) Marabella killed as gunmen open fire on him as he exits his vehicle and goes to fill up his tank at a suburban Montreal gas station

Jan 16, 2009 – Sam Fasulo, a top henchman under Frank Arcadi, murdered in Montreal

April 12, 2009 – Bonanno crime family boss Salvatore (Sal the Ironworker) Montagna, the young, brash Godfather and native Canadian, is officially deported from the U.S. and lands in Quebec. He joins forces with Desjardins to try to wrestle control of the Montreal mob away from the incarcerated Rizzuto

Aug 21, 2009 – Freddy Del Peschio, a Rizzuto confidant, is slain

Dec 28, 2009 – Nicolo (Ritzy Nick) Rizzuto, Jr, Vito’s son and protégé, is shot dead in broad daylight while getting into his car in suburban Montreal

March 19, 2010 – Pete Christopulous, a bodyguard for Haitian gangster Ducarme Joseph, (a one-time Rizzuto ally-turned-enemy, founder of the feared “67s Gang” and suspected shooter in the Rizzuto, Jr. hit) is killed in an assassination attempt on Ducarme inside Ducarme’s women’s clothing boutique located in a Montreal shopping plaza

May 19 2010 – Rizzuto crime family consigliere and Rizzuto brother-in-law, Paolo Renda vanishes and is presumed murdered

June 29, 2010 – Rizzuto crime family acting boss Agostino Cuntrera and his bodyguard Liborio Sciascia killed outside Cuntrera’s office in a hail of bullets in the middle of the afternoon

Sep 29, 2010 – Rizzuto enforcer Ennio Bruni killed, gunned down in a crowded Montreal strip mall

Nov 10, 2010 – Montreal mafia patriarch and elder statesman, Nicolo (Uncle Nick” Rizzuto), a mafia dignitary on multiple continent, is shot dead in his kitchen by a sniper shooting from his backyard

Jan 31, 2011 – Arcadi lieutenant Antonio Di Salvo killed outside his home

Oct 24, 2011 – Rizzuto ally-turned-rival Larry Lopresti, the son of slain Rizzuto lieutenant, killed on his home balcony in suburban Montreal while smoking a cigarette

Nov 24, 2011 – Salvatore Montagna assassinated near a woodsy riverbed as he runs from an ambush in suburban Montreal after he and Desjardins’ palace coup goes awry.

March 1, 2012 – Rizzuto lieutenant-turned-Desjardins loyalist Giuseppe (Joe Closure) Colapelle killed: Joe Closure was a double agent for Desjardins, spying on Montagna

May 4, 2012 – Stealthy Rizzuto ally-turned-Montagna-backer Joe Renda disappears and is presumed dead

July 16, 2012 – Former Rizzuto crime family money launderer Walter Gurierrez killed in a barrage of bullets as he walks towards his house in a West End Montreal neighborhood

Aug 14, 2012 – Street gang leaders Chenier Dupuy & Lamartine Paul gunned down within hours of each other, Dupuy is killed as he sat in his truck outside a restaurant, Paul was murdered as he left his apartment. They were suspected of providing muscle for the anti-Rizzuto wing of the Montreal mafia

Oct 5, 2012 – Vito Rizzuto finally released from “supermax” U.S. prison in Colorado and flies back to Canada, landing in Toronto and going into hiding

Nov 5, 2012 – Giuseppe (Smiling Joe) Di Maulo, a one-time top Rizzuto capo that joined forces with Montagna and Desjardins (Smiling Joe’s brother in-law) to remove the imprisoned Rizzuto from his throne, murdered by gunmen outside his home

Nov 17, 2012 – Desjardins associate Mohamed Awada, who on had been on the frontlines of the war, slain

Dec 8, 2012 – Rizzuto lieutenant Emilio Cordeleone killed

Jan 22, 2013 – Desjardins ally and builder Gaetan Gosselin murdered in Montreal outside his home

Jan 31, 2013 – Desjardins lieutenant Vincenzo Scuderi murdered in Montreal outside his home

May 8, 2013 – Deported Rizzuto enforcer and Ontario crew leader Juan (Joe Bravo) Fernandez found dead in Sicily, his corpse and that of his bodyguard charred, after Fernandez, also a confidant of Desjardins’, attempted to stay neutral in the war between his two close friends

July 8, 2013 – Powerful Montreal mob figure and Rizzuto rival, Giuseppe (Ponytail) De Vito, poisoned to death in his cell in a Quebec prison

July 12, 2013 – Up-and-coming Toronto Mafioso and notorious gangland cowboy Salvatore (Young Gun Sam) Calautti – and his right-hand man Jimmy Tusek – murdered outside a bachelor party in Woodbridge, Ontario while a suspect in the slayings of a number of Rizzuto crime family members, including Vito Rizzuto’s father and son and his one-time Toronto capo Gaetano (Guy) Panepinto in the early 2000s

Nov 10, 2013 – Rizzuto ally-turned-rival Moreno (The Turkey) Gallo killed in Acapulco on the three-year anniversary of the murder of Uncle Nick Rizzuto inside his estate

Dec 18, 2013 – Gallo and Smiling Joe Di Maulo loyalist Roger Valiquette murdered in broad daylight in suburban Montreal

Dec 23, 2013 – Vito Rizzuto dies in a Montreal hospital, allegedly of an aggressive form of cancer but amidst rumors of possible foul play

April 24, 2014 – Highly-feared and heavily influential Toronto mobster Carmine (The Animal) Verducci shot dead on the sidewalk outside of his restaurant in Vaughn, Ontario

Aug 1, 2014 – Ducarme Joseph, powerful street gang leader, Rizzuto-ally-turned-enemy and possible Nick Rizzuto, Jr.’s murderer, killed in suburban Montreal

March 1, 2016 – Rizzuto crime family administrator Lorenzo (Skunk) Giordano is killed, shot to death outside his fitness club in suburban Montreal

May 27, 2016 – Rizzuto crime family administrator Rocco (Sauce) Sollecito is killed, shot to death as he sat at a stop sign in his luxury SUV within less than 100 yards from a suburban Montreal police station

June 2, 2016 – Semi-retired Rizzuto crime family lieutenant Angelo D’Onofrio, 72, is shot to death while sitting outside a suburban Montreal coffee shop (Café Sinatra) drinking an espresso

[dixiemafia]

About all you're going to get "since Rizzuto died" is a mess of names dead. A lot we are not sure who is killing who at this point.

[furiofromnaples]

About all you're going to get "since Rizzuto died" is a mess of names dead. A lot we are not sure who is killing who at this point.

At this point even the canadian police is not sure of who ordered to kill who, because no one of the Calabrian or Sicilian faction flip until now. And JeremyTheJew asked for what happened "since Rizzuto died" and who are involved: the Calabrians (Siderno group), the Sicilians (Rizzutos) and the black gangs.

[JeremyTheJew]

I was hoping by now it was more clear who was with who. Unfortunately I'm not sure if we will know anytime soon at all.

But your list is good Furio thank you.

[JeremyTheJew]

About all you're going to get "since Rizzuto died" is a mess of names dead. A lot we are not sure who is killing who at this point.

At this point even the canadian police is not sure of who ordered to kill who, because no one of the Calabrian or Sicilian faction flip until now. And JeremyTheJew asked for what happened "since Rizzuto died" and who are involved: the Calabrians (Siderno group), the Sicilians (Rizzutos) and the black gangs.

Not trying to jump on your language.... but when you say "calabs and Sicilians factions flip until now" .... has someone flipped.... or is there rumors someone will? Does Canada have a WPP?

[furiofromnaples]

My bad, I would say "nobody in the Calabrian or Sicilian faction flipped" .

[dixiemafia]

Chances are nobody will flip up there. A lot different system up there and the terms are no where near as bad as the States.

[Wiseguy]

Shootings, explosions, killings and the bloody fight to be ‘the next boss’ after mobster Vito Rizzuto’s death

Organized crime reporter Peter Edwards offers an analysis of ongoing tensions and unsolved incidents in the aftermath of the death of Canada’s most powerful mobster.

By PETER EDWARDS
Staff Reporter
July 30, 2017


Mobsters are jostling to fill the vacuum left by the death of an organized crime mega-boss, resulting in about a dozen unsolved violent incidents this year in Ontario — shootings, explosions and killings.

After Vito Rizzuto, considered by police to be Canada’s most powerful mobster, died in Montreal in December 2013 of reportedly natural causes, a vacancy at the top opened up. And the results have been bloody.

“Everybody wants to be the next boss now that Rizzuto is gone,” said Paul Manning, a former undercover officer in Hamilton. “There’s a lot of infighting over who will be the next boss.”

This evolving picture of organized crime in southern Ontario is drawn from interviews with a variety of sources — both investigators and those connected to organized crime — across southern Ontario and Quebec. Most declined to speak on the record for professional reasons.

The leadership vacuum has attracted tech-savvy newcomers from Ontario and Quebec who are eager to challenge the old guard. It has also triggered vicious infighting inside what’s left of the old Rizzuto organization in Ontario.

That infighting may explain the murder of Angelo (Ang) Musitano, 39, who was shot at close range May 2, 2017 in the driveway of his suburban Hamilton house in mid-afternoon with his wife and three young children inside.

It was what Hamilton police Det.-Sgt. Peter Thom called “a very deliberate and targeted attack.”

Before he went to jail, Musitano’s 49-year-old brother, Pat, was considered to be a long-standing Niagara Region associate of Rizzuto, with a keen interest in illegal gambling, according to a report by the Criminal Intelligence Service Ontario, a multi-jurisdictional police organization.

Angelo Musitano reportedly found religion since he and Pat pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in the 1997 gangland hit on Carmen Barillaro at the front door of his Niagara Falls home. They were both sentenced to 10 years in prison and were released on parole in October 2006 after serving two-thirds of their terms.

Illegal gambling has been particularly contentious over the past few years since Rizzuto’s death and the 2013 dismantling of Platinum Sports Book, an illegal internet-based gambling network.

“Everyone’s fighting for control of the sports book,” said a GTA police source who specializes in organized crime, but was not authorized to speak on the record.

Early on the morning of June 27, someone opened fire on the Hamilton home of Pat Musitano.

The gunman, or gunmen, apparently wanted to send a loud message, as there were about 20 shell casings found in front of the upscale home on St. Clair Blvd.

Manning suspects it was a message to Pat Musitano that he should shelve any plans of avenging the murder of his younger brother.

“It’s a warning to leave it there,” Manning said, adding that when Rizzuto was alive he would resolve such disagreements inside his organization like a stern but fair father.

“Usually, there would be a sit-down, an apology.”

Some of this year’s violence is blamed on an ongoing culture clash between the old and the new. On one side are the aggressive young computer-friendly newcomers from B.C. and Quebec allied to a gang called The Wolfpack Alliance. On the other side are the old guard — the GTA arm of the traditional ’Ndrangheta family of Cosimo (The Quail) Commisso of Siderno, Italy.

The Wolfpack Alliance was formed in British Columbia about a decade ago. The alliance pulls together members of existing crime groups, some of which are organized along racial lines, according to Kash Heed, former B.C. solicitor general, minister of public safety and West Vancouver Police chief.

It’s a rapidly evolving group of organized crime disrupters. Their members don’t have blood or ethnic ties or a code of conduct or a rigid hierarchy. They’re generally young and tech savvy. They have gold pendants with a wolf’s head gold medallion to show membership.

“It’s a collective of very successful wealthy organized crime guys working together,” Heed said.

By contrast, the ’Ndrangheta is steeped in a highly structured, quasi-religious criminal tradition that reaches back more than a century to the southern Italian region of Calabria.

The ’Ndrangheta carries itself like a state within a state, with various councils and titles, like “capo-crimine” for minister of war and “contabile” for treasurer.

While its titles may sound archaic, the ’Ndrangheta’s profits surpass those of many modern multinational corporations. Italian investigative journalist Giulio Rubino wrote earlier this month that the ’Ndrangheta made $70.41 billion (U.S.) worldwide in 2013.

The violence between the newcomers aligned with the Wolfpack, and the old guard in the ’Ndrangheta, isn’t expected to end anytime soon, as the Wolfpack has aligned itself with enemies of the GTA ’Ndrangheta, sources say.

The Star has learned that police have warned two York Region men who are considered to be senior members of Commisso’s family that there are credible threats on their lives. The warnings came over the past month and the men declined police protection.

Two other men who investigators consider to be senior underworld figures in York Region have chosen to quietly leave town over the past month, sources say.

One of those departing is related to Commisso. The other is related to Agostino Cuntrera, a former leading member of the Rizzuto crime family in Montreal who was murdered in 2010.

There was enormous bad blood between the Rizzutos and local ’Ndrangheta at the time of Rizzuto’s death. They were on opposite sides of a mob war in the early 2000s that saw Rizzuto’s father and eldest son murdered.

At the time of his death, Rizzuto was believed by police to have drafted a “black list” of men in the Commisso family he wanted killed.

“People are watching their backs now,” the veteran investigator of organized crime said. “People aren’t being as open to meetings now. They’re getting nervous.”

Newcomer Anastasios (Tassos) Leventis, 39, of Montreal may have been nervous when he was called to a mid-afternoon meeting on Jan. 30, but he went anyway.

Leventis was connected to the Wolfpack Alliance, even if he wasn’t a member.

Leventis moved to downtown Toronto from Montreal more than a year ago to collect drug debts owed to Montrealers, the police source says.

Not long before his death, he had a confrontation with a York Region ’Ndrangheta Mafia boss connected to Commisso over a drug debt.

On the afternoon of his death, Leventis realized something was horribly wrong almost immediately after stepping out of the condo complex on George St. near Adelaide St. E. in the St. Lawrence neighbourhood. He bolted in front of students, passersby, construction workers and area residents.

Moments later, a gunman stood over him, pumping bullets into his body.

“The victim knew his killers,” the police officer familiar with the case told the Star. “The killers were waiting for him outside his condo. He was chased down the street.”

“He certainly got set up,” the police source said.

Toronto police investigators declined several requests to comment on the case.

Leventis was an enthusiastic gambler who trained as a computer programmer. Computer skills are vital as organized crime groups reach out across borders, journalist/ academic Luis Horacio Najera said in an interview.

Mexican drug cartels connect with the new small aggressive groups like the Wolfpack Alliance with encrypted messaging systems as they push into Canada.

“In today’s world, there’s a lot of resources as personal information, contacts, instant communications — even hiring a hit man, or buying guns — that you can access through the web,” said Najera, who worked as a journalist covering drug cartels in Ciudad Juarez in Mexico before he was forced to leave the country as a refugee.

Domenic Triumbari, 58, of Woodbridge, was related to the Siderno ’Ndrangheta boss Commisso, which meant he wasn’t a man to be trifled with.

Certainly, Triumbari didn’t appear to worry when he went out to play cards on the evening of March 31 in an industrial plaza that featured a social club and a banquet hall on Regina Road in Vaughan, less than five minutes drive from the Highway 7 and Martin Grove Road intersection.

“He loved to play cards,” said a police officer who knew him. “He was involved in a whole series of games.”

Despite all of the conflict around him, Triumbari seemed like a lucky man in the days before his murder.

The longtime York Region resident was basking in the afterglow of a $150,000 win at Casino Niagara when a gunman rushed out from a parked car in the plaza and shot him dead.

“He’s not a guy that you would just casually decide to take out,” a retired organized crime investigator said.

Violence hasn’t abated since the murder of Leventis six months ago. Much of it has been in York Region, and includes the massive explosion early in the morning of June 29 that knocked a wall out of the Caffé Corretto on Winges Rd. near Highways 400 and 7.

That blast showered brick and gaming machine bits down onto a nearby black BMW.

The café had been targeted in a police sweep of illegal gaming machines in January 2016.

This violence appears to be directed against the Commisso network, but no clear victor has emerged in the conflict, which isn’t expected to end any time soon.

Both sides are strong and motivated and there’s no one with the power of Rizzuto to order a cease fire.

“Everybody’s taking a hit,” the veteran police office said. “It was never like this.”

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/0 ... death.html

[SonnyBlackstein]

Can admin 'sticky' a Canadian thread?

Cheers

[dixiemafia]

We need to update this more, anti is always posting good links that we can share here too. Sonny we'll have to put some up from now on

[SonnyBlackstein]

Sonny we'll have to put some up from now on

Will do mate.

[SonnyBlackstein]

Posted GBB by antimafia:

https://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/7 ... -violence/