Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era

[chin_gigante]

Montreal never gets boring

[OcSleeper]

Laval police investigate shooting near home of Montreal Mafia figure
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local- ... fia-figure

[antimafia]

^^^^
Laval police investigate shooting near home of Montreal Mafia figure

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local- ... fia-figure

Link to tweet photo posted by photographer-journalist Maxime Deland (different newspaper)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fg_ONbRXEAE ... name=large

[Dave65827]

The nuns put the hit out free indulgences for whoever kills him

[antimafia]

The nuns put the hit out free indulgences for whoever kills him

The ‘nannos put the hit out free memberships for whoever kills him

[antimafia]

^^^^
New true crime documentary dives into Montreal's shady past
https://dailyhive.com/montreal/kings-co ... 3Dsharebar

«Les rois de la coke»: réalité pulpeuse
https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/ecrans ... e-pulpeuse

Kings of Coke tells the tale of Montreal's infamous West End Gang https://montrealgazette.com/news/local- ... t-end-gang

[antimafia]

Laval police investigate shooting near home of Montreal Mafia figure
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local- ... fia-figure

From the document filed at the Charbonneau Commission last decade:

Francesco Del Balso
https://www.bibliotheque.assnat.qc.ca/D ... idf=159927

[antimafia]

Who is Domenico in relation to Vincenzo?

Sorry to all, especially OcSleeper, for replying only now to the question directed at me. A tweet from Milan-based journalist Antonio Talia that was posted several days ago about Vincenzo Armeni but that I read only this morning has inspired me to reply in this thread. Following is the link to the tweet that is part of Talia’s longer thread posted last Friday:

https://twitter.com/antoniotalia/status ... R9M-TlGkvg

Secondo alcune voci a #Laval, #Montréal, si voleva costituire – o era già stata costituita – una “locale” della #Ndrangheta. Armeni aveva rapporti con Raynald Desjardins – ex braccio destro e poi rivale del ‘capo dei capi’ Vito Rizzuto – e con gli Hell’s Angels.

Domenico Armeni is related to the recently murdered Vincenzo Armeni. They are probably brothers; if not, they are first cousins. Both are nephews of Giuseppe Armeni, who was either a made member of the Bonanno’s Montreal decina, one of those ’ndranghetisti in the late 1960s and 1970s who had to observe the 5-year rule in Quebec regarding being made and accepted into the Montreal decina, an ’ndranghetista employed by Vic Cotroni but who answered to a senior ’ndrangheta leader such as the Siderno Group’s Mike Racco in Toronto, or someone with an indeterminate status.

Domenico, like Vincenzo and Giuseppe, was previously imprisoned in the 1980s for heroin trafficking. The latter two were arrested at the same time in 1986. Domenico was first imprisoned in 1986.

For many years, the following text has appeared in a number of identical wikis regarding ’ndrangheta locali within and outside Italy:

In Canada ci sarebbero 9 locali secondo le intercettazioni dell'operazione Crimine[42] di cui:

Locale di Montreal( Capeggiato dal Calabrese Dominik Armeni)

The problem is, I’ve never been able to find support for this claim because I can’t locate the Italian document that is supposed to be found at http://es.camera.it/_dati/leg14/lavori/ ... 000003.pdf. I doubt the document was ever archived on the Net.

[antimafia]

^^^^
An Italian journalist, encouraged by Antonio Talia's Twitter thread, has written an article on the same subject.

« La mattanza dei narcos in Canada e gli equilibri criminali tra la Calabria, Toronto e Montrèal. Vincenzo Armeni, broker della coca originario di Ardore, ucciso il 25 ottobre scorso. Sette i trafficanti freddati in tre anni e mezzo »
https://www.corrieredellacalabria.it/20 ... -montreal/

[motorfab]

antimafia, Is it Giuseppe Armani on this obituary https://www.lenecrologue.com/canada/que ... bituaries/ ?

[antimafia]

antimafia, Is it Giuseppe Armani on this obituary https://www.lenecrologue.com/canada/que ... bituaries/ ?

Yes, that is Giuseppe. †Pierre de Champlain (buonanima) might have confirmed the identity back on the old-and-now-defunct Real Deal forum from which a number of TBHF posters came, including him and me, but I'm not sure. I had created a thread there about a month after Armeni died; I had no idea whether the photo accompanying the obituary was him. I reached out to a Quebec-based reporter about it, and his colleague -- having already previously consulted a number of sources before my inquiry -- confirmed the ID.

The link to the original death notice on the website of the Rizzuto clan–owned funeral home is below, but the link no longer works because the website was revamped and no longer allows you to search for obituaries earlier than October 24, 2016 -- at one time, everyone was able to search for obituaries there that went back to November 1, 2008.

http://www.complexeloreto.com/obituarie ... ew&id=1938 (NB: the webpage was not archived on the Net)

A year of birth of 1938 or 1939 can be gleaned from the age on Armeni's death notice. However, this year of birth does not match the year of birth gleaned from the reporting of Armeni's age in various news articles over the years. As well, the original listing for Armeni on the Le Repos Saint-François d'Assise cemetery website shows a year of birth of 1936 -- the listing has since been removed, and you might have noticed in the last year or so that because of newer or modified Quebec privacy laws, the cemetery entries no longer show the names of a decedent's parents.

A number of individuals related to the recently murdered Vincenzo Armeni, including his father (Natale Vincenzo Armeni; I thought OcSleeper linked upthread to an obituary but I may be mistaken) and his mother (Ernesta Alvaro Armeni; wondering whether she could be related to the paternal grandmother of Paolo Violi?) -- this is the reason I wondered about the choice of a different funeral home for the visitation of the murdered Vincenzo Armeni.

[Moscone65]

A little off topic here, but does anyone know anything about someone named Franco Mattoso? He is supposedly a connected guy, hes calabrese and he lives in the toronto area. He was a cumpare to Sergio Piccirilli (piccirilli had a beef with the rizzutos back in the day) but Im curious if anyone has more info about him.

[OcSleeper]

I only know the name from the books on Montreal. IIRC Mafia Inc referred to him as Piccirilli's Calabrian boss in Toronto, who he visited for advice on how to handle the situation he had with the Rizzutos at the time. The book then said Piccirilli visited the Violi brothers in Hamilton. Another book, or maybe Mafia Inc quoted wiretaps or texts between Piccirilli and his mom and Piccirilli said he had friends coming up from the US and I've always wondered who that was.

I haven't been able to find any mention of Mattoso anywhere else.

[antimafia]

A little off topic here, but does anyone know anything about someone named Franco Mattoso? He is supposedly a connected guy, hes calabrese and he lives in the toronto area. He was a cumpare to Sergio Piccirilli (piccirilli had a beef with the rizzutos back in the day) but Im curious if anyone has more info about him.

I only know the name from the books on Montreal. IIRC Mafia Inc referred to him as Piccirilli's Calabrian boss in Toronto, who he visited for advice on how to handle the situation he had with the Rizzutos at the time. The book then said Piccirilli visited the Violi brothers in Hamilton. Another book, or maybe Mafia Inc quoted wiretaps or texts between Piccirilli and his mom and Piccirilli said he had friends coming up from the US and I've always wondered who that was.

I haven't been able to find any mention of Mattoso anywhere else.

In André Cédilot and André Noel's Mafia inc., Sergio Piccirilli, the D'Amicos, Joe Di Maulo, and others were all misidentified as having Calabrian ancestry. The surname Mattoso is not Calabrian; so I think the book's authors either received some bad intel, got the name wrong, or made the same type of identification error as with the other individuals. Copy editors and fact checkers might also have been sloppy.

Interestingly, Daniel Renaud relates in his 2015 book the intelligence that Piccirilli's life was in danger, with the threat emanating from Toronto. From ch. 10 of Cellule 8002 vs mafia:

Une semaine plus tard, le sergent Joe Tomeo de la GRC rend visite à Sergio Piccirilli pour lui dire que sa vie est en danger et que la menace vient de Toronto. Le policier a raconté la scène lors d’un témoignage dans l’un des procès découlant de l’enquête Cléopâtre. Piccirilli répond qu’il le sait, qu’il s’agit d’une vieille affaire et qu’elle est réglée. Il ajoute par contre que des gens lui en veulent et qu’ils ont même menacé un membre de sa famille. L’enquêteur Tomeo lui dit qu’il devrait aller voir le « vieil homme » et Piccirilli répond qu’il l’a déjà fait et qu’il le fera de nouveau. Il affirme qu’il a des armes à la maison, toutes légales, et qu’il est capable de se défendre si quelqu’un se présente chez lui. Avant de partir, l’enquêteur lui demande s’il peut faire quelque chose pour lui. « Seulement m’envoyer des fleurs », répond Piccirilli. Alors que le policier est sur le chemin du retour, Piccirilli l’appelle et lui demande s’il a le droit de porter une veste pare-balles. Le lendemain, il communique avec Sharon Simon pour se procurer une arme, mais la conversation est captée sur l’écoute. La voiture de la « reine de Kanesatake » sera interceptée le lendemain sous un faux prétexte. Dans le véhicule, les patrouilleurs trouveront une Norinco 84S s’apparentant à une mitraillette AK-47 et un revolver de calibre .380.

[Moscone65]

Interesting, thanks guys. I can’t seem to find where the mattoso name originates, Piccirilli seems to be from lazio or abruzzo, so central Italian.