Ontario Mobster Angelo Musitano shot dead

[antimafia]

Police want $50K reward for information about killing of mobster Angelo Musitano

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton ... -1.4911633

[antimafia]

Police want $50K reward for information about killing of mobster Angelo Musitano

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton ... -1.4911633

Hamilton police may offer $50K reward in Angelo Musitano murder case

https://globalnews.ca/news/4680997/hami ... rder-case/

[antimafia]

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Reward Offered in Angelo Musitano Homicide

https://hamiltonpolice.on.ca/node/38507

[antimafia]

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See also Paul Manning's tweet at the link below.

https://twitter.com/AD_Humphreys/status ... 9942724608

[SILENT PARTNERZ]

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Reward Offered in Angelo Musitano Homicide

https://hamiltonpolice.on.ca/node/38507

Aren't both guys who went to Mexico dead?
Killed down there by the cartels?

[antimafia]

^^^^
Daniele Ranieri was murdered in Mexico earlier this year--his death was finally confirmed.

Michael Cudmore's family fears Michael has been killed--the family has publicly stated this.

Tomassetti's family might already know in their hearts that Daniel has been murdered--the family has not wanted to make a public statement.

[SILENT PARTNERZ]

^^^^
Daniele Ranieri was murdered in Mexico earlier this year--his death was finally confirmed.

Michael Cudmore's family fears Michael has been killed--the family has publicly stated this.

Tomassetti's family might already know in their hearts that Daniel has been murdered--the family has not wanted to make a public statement.

thanks, any ideas floating as to why the cartels
would kill these guys? some sort of connection/
favor to the OC guys in canada?

[antimafia]

^^^^
Daniele Ranieri was murdered in Mexico earlier this year--his death was finally confirmed.

Michael Cudmore's family fears Michael has been killed--the family has publicly stated this.

Tomassetti's family might already know in their hearts that Daniel has been murdered--the family has not wanted to make a public statement.

thanks, any ideas floating as to why the cartels
would kill these guys? some sort of connection/
favor to the OC guys in canada?

Your guesses are as good as mine as to why Ranieri--and possibly Cudmore and Tomassetti--were killed. However, we don't have any evidence as to who killed Ranieri.

In Ranieri's case, he was on the lam and he was hiding in Mexico under an assumed identity for at least a couple of years. Hard to say whether his connection to an already-dead Vito Rizzuto meant anything down there--especially if Ranieri was using a Spanish name instead of his real one.

If you've been following all the articles about Ranieri over the years, you know that the Siderno Group ('ndrangheta) in the Greater Toronto Area didn't like him, even though they likely worked together in certain ventures; however, we also know that Frank Campoli of the GTA, who is married to Vito Rizzuto's wife's cousin, was heard on tape talking about wanting Ranieri, a Rizzuto associate, dead.

[NickleCity]

^^^^
Daniele Ranieri was murdered in Mexico earlier this year--his death was finally confirmed.

Michael Cudmore's family fears Michael has been killed--the family has publicly stated this.

Tomassetti's family might already know in their hearts that Daniel has been murdered--the family has not wanted to make a public statement.

thanks, any ideas floating as to why the cartels
would kill these guys? some sort of connection/
favor to the OC guys in canada?

It could be possible that Buffalo has connection in the Baja Region of Mexico. In 2014 The Las Vegas Journal Review indicated Joe Bravo thought by the FBI to be part of the Buffalo Crime was running a HOA Scam. (He served time for trafficking from Mexico thru Vegas to Buffalo in late 90's.) The HOA investigation revealed he and his mob connected lawyer currently own and are partners in a airport in Baja Sur. How does a convicted drug trafficker get his own airport--even in Mexica that is not supposed to happen.

Here are the relevant articles:

Target of Las Vegas HOA investigation detailed scheme, bribes in secret documents

By JEFF GERMAN © 2014 LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
October 30, 2014 - 8:31 pm

...Investigators in 2011 also asked Benzer about possible mob involvement in the HOA takeover scheme.

In one interview, Benzer said he was friends with Joseph A. Bravo, a Las Vegas ticket broker who received an 87-month federal prison term in 1993 for his role in a cocaine trafficking ring with alleged ties to the Buffalo mob.

Benzer said he met Bravo through lawyer John V. Spilotro, the nephew of Anthony “The Ant” Spilotro, the Chicago mob’s infamous overseer of street rackets in Las Vegas until his murder in 1986.

Bravo’s nephew, real estate agent Anthony R. Wilson, pleaded guilty in the HOA investigation. So did limousine driver Paul Citelli, who was convicted with Bravo in the 1993 cocaine case.

Benzer told investigators that he didn’t believe Bravo had mob ties, but admitted that Bravo had loaned him as much as $20,000 and turned him on to hard money lenders as the scheme progressed.

Before sitting down with Benzer, Justice Department lawyers agreed not to use anything he said against him at trial if the negotiations fell through. But they were free to corroborate the wealth of information they got from Benzer with other witnesses....

About the airport and Joe Bravo:

From Las Vegas Review Journal
Familiar faces show up in HOA probe

June 10, 2012 - 12:59 am


His friends call Joe Bravo an honorable guy and a gifted businessman who has put the mistakes of his past far behind him.

It’s just a coincidence, they say, that he knows some of the defendants and potential targets in the ongoing investigation of corruption inside the local homeowners associations and construction defect racket.

Who is Joe Bravo?

It’s a question some members of local law enforcement have asked for years. For the record, Joseph Angelo Bravo is a convicted drug trafficker who was sentenced to 87 months in 1993 for his role in a cocaine importing ring with ties to the Buffalo mob.

The Niagara Falls-to-Las Vegas distribution network was accused of distributing 400 kilos of cocaine between 1986 and 1990. A lengthy investigation compiled 2,500 wiretap conversations, recordings whose legality was vigorously but unsuccessfully challenged by defense lawyers Oscar Goodman and David Chesnoff. The 16 defendants pleaded guilty before trial.

I was reminded of that old case May 31 when Paul Citelli entered U.S. District Judge James Mahan’s courtroom and took his place among the 14 latest defendants to plead guilty in the HOA scandal. Citelli, a Southern Nevada limousine driver, was one of Bravo’s partners in the cocaine distribution ring back in the years authorities believed the Buffalo mob was the dominant La Cosa Nostra family on the streets of Las Vegas.


At the time of Citelli’s 1993 sentencing, he apologized to U.S. District Judge Lloyd George for his transgression and received a break. Faced with a potential 27-year prison term, Citelli caught only seven.

Fast-forward 19 years to Mahan’s court: With defense attorney David Brown at his side, Citelli pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and admitted his role in the HOA corruption scheme.

After the hearing, Citelli declined an interview request.

Las Vegas real estate agent Anthony Roy Wilson also pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. He’s Bravo’s nephew.

While other targets in the HOA investigation generated headlines, Wilson blended into the crowd of role players in Mahan’s courtroom. His eventual sentence figures to be light, but Wilson was an integral part of the conspiracy.

In his plea agreement, Wilson admitted his job was to find and fill condominiums with participants in the conspiracy with the goal of seeing them placed on HOA boards. He did his job well, locating 17 units for purchase by straw buyers.

Wilson helped those phony buyers with equally fraudulent mortgage applications. He handled the transactions and, according to the plea agreement, generated $117,500 in commissions.

Even if Wilson is a big admirer of his Uncle Joe, Bravo’s friends say that link is just another coincidence.
Business partner Chesnoff defends Bravo as the consummate stand-up guy.

“I have been a lawyer for 32 years, and I have never seen anyone who so thoroughly turned his life around and has been as hard working and honorable with all those people that he has worked with than Joe Bravo,” Chesnoff says.

Consider former Las Vegas Mayor Goodman another of Bravo’s admirers.

“He did his time, and he did it like a man,” Goodman says. “He made no excuses, had no bravado, and I understand, after he came out, that he’s a hard worker. People who know him love him. His word is his bond. I don’t know anybody who says a bad word about him, even the feds. He paid his debt. I think Las Vegas is a place of second chances, so I have no problem vouching for him in that respect.”

And attorney Paul Hejmanowski offers, “I’ve had the privilege of working with him for several years. I consider him a personal friend. I’ve never known him to fail to keep his word in every instance.”

Defense attorneys Chesnoff and Marty Keach are listed in real estate records as partners in land deals with Bravo both locally and in Mexico. Down in Baja California Sur, their friend Joe’s name and criminal history have splashed in the press in association with their Punta Arena de la Ventana resort and the management of a private airport outside La Paz.

What’s a convicted drug trafficker doing managing a Mexican airport?

That’s a question skeptical reporters asked in 2010.

They’ve also wondered about Bravo’s cordial relationship with then-Baja Sur Gov. Narciso Agundez Montano.

I might ask for Agundez to vouch for Bravo’s character, but the former governor was just arrested in late May on public corruption charges.

Back in Las Vegas, the HOA/construction defect investigation grinds on with prosecutors from the Department of Justice’s Fraud Section strongly hinting in court recently that the case remains a target-rich environment.

Bravo’s friends and business partners vouch for his rehabilitated character, but from here to Mexico it’s hard for him to shake his reputation.

Do you suppose he knows more about the structure of the HOA and construction defect conspiracy than meets the eye?

Say it ain’t so, Joe.

John L. Smith’s column appears Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Email him at Smith@reviewjournal.com or call 702-383-0295. He also blogs at lvrj.com/blogs/smith. Follow him on Twitter @jlnevadasmith.

If I remember right the Violi's did some time for trafficking cocaine shortly after Bravo was arrested. If I remember correctly Violi was arrested in operation One Call in 1995.

Did Dom have access to Todaro's drug route and the players in Mexico? Did he use these connections in the recent murders? I don't know. These may all be coincidences, but we should look into the possibility there is a connection in all of this.

[antimafia]

More about the reward being offered in relation to Angelo Musitano's murder:

Hamilton police post $50,000 reward for information in Musitano murder

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/ ... no-murder/

[SILENT PARTNERZ]

^^^^
Daniele Ranieri was murdered in Mexico earlier this year--his death was finally confirmed.

Michael Cudmore's family fears Michael has been killed--the family has publicly stated this.

Tomassetti's family might already know in their hearts that Daniel has been murdered--the family has not wanted to make a public statement.

thanks, any ideas floating as to why the cartels
would kill these guys? some sort of connection/
favor to the OC guys in canada?

It could be possible that Buffalo has connection in the Baja Region of Mexico. In 2014 The Las Vegas Journal Review indicated Joe Bravo thought by the FBI to be part of the Buffalo Crime was running a HOA Scam. (He served time for trafficking from Mexico thru Vegas to Buffalo in late 90's.) The HOA investigation revealed he and his mob connected lawyer currently own and are partners in a airport in Baja Sur. How does a convicted drug trafficker get his own airport--even in Mexica that is not supposed to happen.

Here are the relevant articles:

Target of Las Vegas HOA investigation detailed scheme, bribes in secret documents

By JEFF GERMAN © 2014 LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
October 30, 2014 - 8:31 pm

...Investigators in 2011 also asked Benzer about possible mob involvement in the HOA takeover scheme.

In one interview, Benzer said he was friends with Joseph A. Bravo, a Las Vegas ticket broker who received an 87-month federal prison term in 1993 for his role in a cocaine trafficking ring with alleged ties to the Buffalo mob.

Benzer said he met Bravo through lawyer John V. Spilotro, the nephew of Anthony “The Ant” Spilotro, the Chicago mob’s infamous overseer of street rackets in Las Vegas until his murder in 1986.

Bravo’s nephew, real estate agent Anthony R. Wilson, pleaded guilty in the HOA investigation. So did limousine driver Paul Citelli, who was convicted with Bravo in the 1993 cocaine case.

Benzer told investigators that he didn’t believe Bravo had mob ties, but admitted that Bravo had loaned him as much as $20,000 and turned him on to hard money lenders as the scheme progressed.

Before sitting down with Benzer, Justice Department lawyers agreed not to use anything he said against him at trial if the negotiations fell through. But they were free to corroborate the wealth of information they got from Benzer with other witnesses....

About the airport and Joe Bravo:

From Las Vegas Review Journal
Familiar faces show up in HOA probe

June 10, 2012 - 12:59 am


His friends call Joe Bravo an honorable guy and a gifted businessman who has put the mistakes of his past far behind him.

It’s just a coincidence, they say, that he knows some of the defendants and potential targets in the ongoing investigation of corruption inside the local homeowners associations and construction defect racket.

Who is Joe Bravo?

It’s a question some members of local law enforcement have asked for years. For the record, Joseph Angelo Bravo is a convicted drug trafficker who was sentenced to 87 months in 1993 for his role in a cocaine importing ring with ties to the Buffalo mob.

The Niagara Falls-to-Las Vegas distribution network was accused of distributing 400 kilos of cocaine between 1986 and 1990. A lengthy investigation compiled 2,500 wiretap conversations, recordings whose legality was vigorously but unsuccessfully challenged by defense lawyers Oscar Goodman and David Chesnoff. The 16 defendants pleaded guilty before trial.

I was reminded of that old case May 31 when Paul Citelli entered U.S. District Judge James Mahan’s courtroom and took his place among the 14 latest defendants to plead guilty in the HOA scandal. Citelli, a Southern Nevada limousine driver, was one of Bravo’s partners in the cocaine distribution ring back in the years authorities believed the Buffalo mob was the dominant La Cosa Nostra family on the streets of Las Vegas.


At the time of Citelli’s 1993 sentencing, he apologized to U.S. District Judge Lloyd George for his transgression and received a break. Faced with a potential 27-year prison term, Citelli caught only seven.

Fast-forward 19 years to Mahan’s court: With defense attorney David Brown at his side, Citelli pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and admitted his role in the HOA corruption scheme.

After the hearing, Citelli declined an interview request.

Las Vegas real estate agent Anthony Roy Wilson also pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. He’s Bravo’s nephew.

While other targets in the HOA investigation generated headlines, Wilson blended into the crowd of role players in Mahan’s courtroom. His eventual sentence figures to be light, but Wilson was an integral part of the conspiracy.

In his plea agreement, Wilson admitted his job was to find and fill condominiums with participants in the conspiracy with the goal of seeing them placed on HOA boards. He did his job well, locating 17 units for purchase by straw buyers.

Wilson helped those phony buyers with equally fraudulent mortgage applications. He handled the transactions and, according to the plea agreement, generated $117,500 in commissions.

Even if Wilson is a big admirer of his Uncle Joe, Bravo’s friends say that link is just another coincidence.
Business partner Chesnoff defends Bravo as the consummate stand-up guy.

“I have been a lawyer for 32 years, and I have never seen anyone who so thoroughly turned his life around and has been as hard working and honorable with all those people that he has worked with than Joe Bravo,” Chesnoff says.

Consider former Las Vegas Mayor Goodman another of Bravo’s admirers.

“He did his time, and he did it like a man,” Goodman says. “He made no excuses, had no bravado, and I understand, after he came out, that he’s a hard worker. People who know him love him. His word is his bond. I don’t know anybody who says a bad word about him, even the feds. He paid his debt. I think Las Vegas is a place of second chances, so I have no problem vouching for him in that respect.”

And attorney Paul Hejmanowski offers, “I’ve had the privilege of working with him for several years. I consider him a personal friend. I’ve never known him to fail to keep his word in every instance.”

Defense attorneys Chesnoff and Marty Keach are listed in real estate records as partners in land deals with Bravo both locally and in Mexico. Down in Baja California Sur, their friend Joe’s name and criminal history have splashed in the press in association with their Punta Arena de la Ventana resort and the management of a private airport outside La Paz.

What’s a convicted drug trafficker doing managing a Mexican airport?

That’s a question skeptical reporters asked in 2010.

They’ve also wondered about Bravo’s cordial relationship with then-Baja Sur Gov. Narciso Agundez Montano.

I might ask for Agundez to vouch for Bravo’s character, but the former governor was just arrested in late May on public corruption charges.

Back in Las Vegas, the HOA/construction defect investigation grinds on with prosecutors from the Department of Justice’s Fraud Section strongly hinting in court recently that the case remains a target-rich environment.

Bravo’s friends and business partners vouch for his rehabilitated character, but from here to Mexico it’s hard for him to shake his reputation.

Do you suppose he knows more about the structure of the HOA and construction defect conspiracy than meets the eye?

Say it ain’t so, Joe.

John L. Smith’s column appears Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Email him at Smith@reviewjournal.com or call 702-383-0295. He also blogs at lvrj.com/blogs/smith. Follow him on Twitter @jlnevadasmith.

If I remember right the Violi's did some time for trafficking cocaine shortly after Bravo was arrested. If I remember correctly Violi was arrested in operation One Call in 1995.

Did Dom have access to Todaro's drug route and the players in Mexico? Did he use these connections in the recent murders? I don't know. These may all be coincidences, but we should look into the possibility there is a connection in all of this.

Fascinating information. During the time frame that mentions Buffalo being
the OC power in Vegas, Bobby Panero was the main guy there. We can also
glean from this article that mucho cocaino was being moved by the Buffalo
crew. With direct ties to cartels down in Baja, the airport screams drug trafficking.
The HOA scam is a prime example of the mob using innovative business ventures
in the white collar area. Thanks for sharing all of the above. anti-mafia & Nickel City.

[antimafia]

Did same brazen hitman kill mob scion, two Toronto businessmen?

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/ ... sinessmen/

[Etna]

^^^^
Daniele Ranieri was murdered in Mexico earlier this year--his death was finally confirmed.

Michael Cudmore's family fears Michael has been killed--the family has publicly stated this.

Tomassetti's family might already know in their hearts that Daniel has been murdered--the family has not wanted to make a public statement.

I have recently googled this and found some conflicting reports stating Ranieri's death is a rumor and he could have started the rumor. I saw an article stating he was last seen in Cuba.

[Lupara]

^^^^
Daniele Ranieri was murdered in Mexico earlier this year--his death was finally confirmed.

Michael Cudmore's family fears Michael has been killed--the family has publicly stated this.

Tomassetti's family might already know in their hearts that Daniel has been murdered--the family has not wanted to make a public statement.

I have recently googled this and found some conflicting reports stating Ranieri's death is a rumor and he could have started the rumor. I saw an article stating he was last seen in Cuba.

As long as there is no body you can't rule out that possibility.

The same counts for Paolo and Giuseppe Renda (not related). [emoji2]

[antimafia]

^^^^
We're forgetting about this article to which I've linked below.

https://www.caledonenterprise.com/news- ... dead-rcmp/