Daniel Renaud's 2018 book on Vito Rizzuto

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Since one of the excerpts gives some brief biographical info on Sciascia, it also brings up a question I've been meaning to ask...

When was Sciascia inducted into the Bonanno family? He was a member by the late 1970s but LCNBios hasn't posted any specific info mentioning his induction during the known 1970s ceremonies. Sciascia looks to have predated the Rizzutos in Montreal and it's my understanding that it would be many decades after he emigrated to the United States that he would be barred from entering Canada. Nick Rizzuto either transferred or was inducted into the Bonanno family by the 1970s. I'd be curious if Sciascia had been inducted in the 1950s or early 1960s in Montreal (the 1960s ceremonies are believed to have been without Commission approval) or if Sciascia, as a well-connected "zip", may have even been a transfer himself. Too much speculation to hang onto anything but some things to consider.

In The Sixth Family..., Lamothe and Humphreys write that Sciascia had been made in Sicily; the authors also discuss beforehand the issue of double affiliation. The excerpt below, from p. 268 of the 2014 edition, relates to discussion of the election of a new Bonanno boss after Phil Rastellli's death (NB: the word "boss" in square brackets below appears in the book):

Sal Catalano, as street boss of the Zips in New York, had once been seen as a possible contender. At one point during Rastelli's incarceration, Catalano had been elevated to the position of acting boss of the family, a move that probably drew considerable heat from other bosses, if not officially from the entire Commission.

"They were looking to make him boss and I think they were pushing Phil Rastelli aside, but he couldn't be [boss] because he was already made in Italy," Vitale said. "You can't have allegiance with two—you are either all Italy or all United States." The issue of how Sicilian Men of Honor would fit into the American Mafia was still causing problems. The rule Vitale spoke of, however, seemed to apply only to holding the top post, as boss, because plenty of Zips in America and Canada had been inducted into the Bonanno Family as soldiers and elevated to captain. Any remaining claim Catalano might once have had evaporated when he was sentenced to 45 years in prison for his part in the Pizza Connection case in 1987. Another Zip who had ambition, street smarts and charisma, Cesare Bonventre, had been killed in 1984, on Massino's orders, on the eve of the Pizza Connection arrests.

As for Gerlando Sciascia, he, like Catalano, had been made in Sicily, apparently precluding him from contention.

Here's a link to my post, from a few months ago in the "Bonanno family." thread in the MUGSHOTS forum, mostly regarding Giuseppe "Joe" Renda and Sciascia: http://www.theblackhand.club/forum/view ... uiz#p85923.

Below is my post from February 2017 that appears on the Gangster BB board--the post is also mostly about Giuseppe Renda and Sciascia.

Renda's disappearance and likely murder show how there were people with ancestry from the Rizzutos' hometown, like Renda, who did not swear allegiance to the "Sixth Family" but, rather, to New York. He in particular appears to have betrayed Agostino Cun trera, to whom he had once been close.

Renda was born in New York and was a made Bonanno, likely made there. Before moving to Montreal and before Sciascia's murder in 1999, Renda would have come into contact with Sal Montagna and others in Montagna and Sciascia's circle, e.g., the aging mobster Giuseppe Arcuri, a made Bonanno and also from the Rizzutos' hometown, who died in 2001. Once in Montreal, Renda acted as its representative when he attended his uncle Gerlando's funeral in New York in 1999. Maybe Renda also acted as a go-between?

It took me close to four years to finally determine that Giuseppe Arcuri of New York is the brother of Domenico Arcuri Sr., the father of Domenico Arcuri Jr. and Antonino. Had I done some genealogical research shortly after Arcuri Sr.'s death in Florida in October 2012, I would have discovered that he and Giuseppe Arcuri had the same parents (Domenico and Filippa Arcuri); that Giuseppe and the parents had lived in the same household in New York during a certain period; that Giuseppe, his parents, and Gerlando had applied for their U.S. Social Security Number during a period of roughly three years (between 1955 and 1958); and that there is the possibility that Domenico Arcuri Sr. at one time was also living in New York with his parents and older brother Giuseppe before Domenico and his parents--as well as Domenico's other sibling(s)--moved to Montreal.

Apart from Gerlando's immigration matters, I don't know many of the reasons that the Arcuri clan and Sciascia clan had some members stay in New York, some move to Quebec, and some go back and forth. Gerlando's daughter, Donna, lives in the US with her husband and young son (Luciano); Gerlando's son, Joseph, lives in the Montreal area with his wife, and their son (Gerlando) is attending college in Poughkeepsie, New York--this grandson of Gerlando's very likely lives with his grandmother, Gerlando's wife, who lives in Yonkers.

Joseph Mark Sciascia, Gerlando'son, has at least one important business dealing with Domenico Arcuri Jr., who in turn still has an important business dealing with Raynald Desjardins (despite the friendship between the two that then turned into hatred).

It seems that for some of the guys in Montreal, whether they were made or not, being a made Bonanno meant something. Maybe that's why a non-Sicilian like Moreno Gallo aligned himself with Montagna?

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I have the older edition of the Sixth Family so this is my first time seeing this info from the revised edition about Catalano and Sciascia being made in Sicily. Those examples of course wouldn't be double affiliation, but transferring affiliation from one group to another which used to be very common between Sicily-US and within US families as well. I'm curious what the source is on Sciascia having been made in Sicily and whether he is believed to have transferred to the Bonannos while still in Montreal or NYC, or if it even mattered given that he continued to have influence in both places. There are indications that the NYC Bonannos had members transfer from Sicily, including Giuseppe Buccellato.

Giuseppe Renda being born and possibly inducted in NYC is big as well. If true, that would mean Sciascia likely had least two NYC-based members of his decina in Renda and Montagna. He also sponsored Pietro Ligammari for membership, so he may have been another NYC-based member of that crew before the suspicious father/son suicide, with his father potentially being a member in that group after his release as well given his own ties to Sciascia and Montreal. It definitely adds a new dimension to all of this to consider that the Sciascia crew included both Montreal and NYC-area members.

The part about immigrants from Cattolica Eraclea not necessarily being aligned with each other is an important point. An older Arcuri from CE was believed to be responsible for killing the elder Vito Rizzuto in the 1930s in NYC, plus of course you had Giuseppe LoPresti from CE killed on orders from Sciascia, then the more modern issues you mentioned between the Arcuris and the Rizzutos. So we can't assume that the Cattolica Eraclea members, or members from other nearby villages, all presented a unified front. Regardless of this violence between paesans, it stands out that almost all known mafia members in North America from Cattolica Eraclea were Bonanno members or associates (except for one known Buffalo member), possibly going back to the elder Vito Rizzuto who apparently associated with longtime Bonanno power Nicolo Alfano, himself having ongoing ties to Canada and soldier Buttafuoco from CE in his crew. Of course it should be pointed out that this general group had ties to Bronx/Yonkers, where Sciascia later ended up. Then after Sciascia's murder Montagna ended up reporting to the family's main Bronx crew, run by DeFilippo whose father had been a liaison to Canada and who had visited Montreal himself.

Some of this is bound to be coincidental, but not all of it can be. Fascinating stuff.

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You beat me to it....

Once again your research proves impeccable, Renaud says it was indeed the Arcuris who were the mainly facilitated Montagnas entry into the Montreal milieu..

I'm going to post some excerpts from the Montagna sections for discussion, give me a few minutes....

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Couple questions first.....


1. What did you guys think about the statement,
" There were about 20 "Men of Honor"..."
That would have been, ( to the best of our knowledge) the WHOLE Montreal LCN, right?

So was that ALL of them, or a majority? Meaning are there more than the 20 guys that's been accepted as fact?

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Chapter 9:



- The man comes out of his house. He rides in a vehicle with C2 (another identified individual). There is another vehicle with two UM (unidentified individuals) on board. The vehicles leave on Grande-Allée heading south, said a voice on the police radio.

- The two vehicles enter the bridge-tunnel La Fontaine, describes the same voice about fifteen minutes later.

- Both vehicles park in the parking lot of a big box store on the Metropolitain Boulevard, between Langelier and Lacordaire. The "subjects" enter the store. The investigator should be warned, the voice said again.

The investigator is Benoît Dubé from the Organized Crime Division of the Sûreté du Québec. The latter has been working for several days on a case of extortion of several million dollars against wealthy business people in the Italian community of Montreal. On the morning of March 3, 2011, Lorie McDougall accompanies him. The two police officers are closely following the SQ spinning team which has in its sights a newcomer to the Montreal mafia: Salvatore Montagna.

The 40-year-old was the interim leader of the New York Bonanno Clan when he was deported by the United States to his home country, Canada, in April 2009. He was born in Montreal in 1971, but, when he was only a year old, his family went to live in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, where he spent all his youth. When he was 15, his family moved back to North America, but chose New York. As a young adult, he founded a metal products manufacturing company, the Matrix Steel Company, in Brooklyn, which earned him the nickname "Sal the Ironworker".

According to FBI documents, it was in 1998 that Montagna was invited to join the Bonanno clan through Gerlando Sciascia, aka "George of Canada". After the murder of Sciascia, he would have been one of the emissaries that the Bonanno clan sent to the Rizzuto to know their state of mind. In 2002, Montagna was arrested for a sports betting deal. He appeared before a judge but refused to answer his questions. In 2006, he became captain of the Brooklyn mafia boss, Michael Mancuso, then acting Bonanno clan sponsor two years later. In 2009, he was arrested again and was sentenced to deportation. A Canadian citizen, he asked to be deported to Canada and specifically chose Montréal, his hometown.

Montagna is well acquainted with Quebec's metropolis. He was one of those who passed messages from Bonanno clan leader Joe Massino to the bosses of the Montreal Mafia. The FBI describes him as a very cautious man who did not hesitate, rather than using the phone, to get in his car and drive for seven hours to deliver the message directly into the recipient's ear. Montagna is close to a New York mafioso who married a niece of Vito Rizzuto, reveal documents from the US Federal Police. He is also very familiar with the Arcuri family, owner of the Ital Gelati ice cream factory in Saint-Léonard, and the police believe that it has facilitated his arrival and his adaptation in the Quebec metropolis.

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In 2010, most police officers on the ground do not know at all who is Salvatore Montagna. They heard his name, but they are not even sure he exists. Then, they begin to see him gradually meet in Italian cafes in Montreal and hear vaguely say he wants to control extortion and usurious loans. The investigators question whether he comes from New York to recover Montreal for the benefit of the Bonanno clan or if he really wants to make his place in the city.

He is believed to have sent a wreath of mortuary flowers to two important businessmen in the Italian community - a message telling them that they will have to pay a $ 10 million "protection tax" - when he is intercepted by Benoît Dubé and Lorie McDougall.

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Sitting in their vehicle, Benoît Dubé and Lorie McDougall wait for Montagna and his henchmen when they leave the big-box store. Two bodyguards precede the mafia captain and they become nervous when they see the police. Dubé activates the beacons of the van. McDougall and he then come down from it clearly showing their plates so that Montagna and his suite understand that they are indeed dealing with police. With everything that happens in the mafia, you can never be too careful - you just have to remember the case of Paolo Renda, kidnapped by individuals disguised as police. When he sees the two investigators approach, Montagna, who wears sunglasses, gestures to his bodyguards back, meaning by this gesture that everything is under control and he will talk to them.

The two investigators announce to him that they are aware that there is an attempt of extortion against two businessmen. Montagna replies that he knows the names that the police mentions, but that he has nothing to do with it. He says he does not want problems and he is not a criminal. He describes himself as a businessman who has just started a business importing cold cuts from Italy.

He confirms that he knows the Arcuri family well. He says he lives in his cousin's home in Saint-Hubert and pays $ 500 a month.

His face twitched as the police spoke to him about the New York Bonanno clan, to which he had belonged.

- These are fucking rats, he says in English. I will never be a rat, he promises.

Montagna says he has difficulty with French in Montreal and Quebec and plans to move to Toronto for this reason.

During the conversation, which lasts about ten minutes, Montagna is cold but polite. He is not nervous. Obviously, this is not the first time he's dealing with the police. He knows that the police are there just to send him a message, which they do at the end.

- Know that we know everything you do and that we are constantly behind you, they warn before leaving.

After a brief lull following the assassination of Patriarch Nicolo Rizzuto in his kitchen last November, the police witness a renewed tension in the Montreal mafia in the spring of 2011. She has just discovered in a warehouse, Pascal-Gagnon street in the district of Anjou, a real arsenal of war and it apprehends new conflicts. A name that comes up more and more often in police reports and intelligence meetings is that of Raynald Desjardins.

Officially, Desjardins, 57, is currently involved in the construction industry. In 2004, when he left the penitentiary where he had served a 15-year sentence for drug imports, he began selling homes that had been damaged by fire and that he renovated and converted into apartments. Subsequently, he began acquiring and reselling land for residential construction projects. In 2011, Desjardins is also a partner

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of the Arcuri - Domenico brothers - in the soil decontamination company Société Internationale Carboneutre, which will be discussed at the Charbonneau Commission.

But unofficially, according to the police, Desjardins would still be involved in the crime and ruminate revenge against the Rizzuto. The police have always considered him an actor of the Italian mafia, particularly related to the Calabrian cell which belongs to his brother-in-law, Giuseppe Di Maulo. They also saw him as the right arm of Vito Rizzuto, whom he was so close to at one time that he lived on Boulevard Gouin, near the house of the future godfather. But the relationship dramatically changed after the arrest of the two men mentioned in the prologue of this book.

Rumor has it that Desjardins took over the imports for which he pleaded guilty at the turn of the 1990s, that he accepted the heavy sentence and thus sacrificed himself for his friend Vito Rizzuto. He was probably waiting for a family elevator return, which would never have come.

A November 2010 intelligence report from the SPVM indicates that after the conviction of Desjardins, the Rizzuto clan took over some of its business and some of its territories and was to hand him a large sum of money upon leaving the penitentiary. in 2004, but it would never have been paid.

"Desjardins did not get their hands on the amounts they expected. It is very likely that the flagrant lack of consideration of the Rizzuto family towards the latter could have fueled his vengeance for revenge, "reads the document.

When Desjardins arrived at Donnacona Penitentiary in the early 1990s, the prison authorities noted that he was "embittered and angry" with Rizzuto. In principle, it is easy to place an inmate of such a level in an area where there are already individuals belonging to his group or having affinities with it, but the authorities do not know where to send it. Desjardins himself boasted of not being an organization and he would have won the respect of the prison population because of his past feats of arms, and not because of any status within a group . During conversations with relatives, Desjardins spat anger at his former associates.

- Before, when we were all together, it was nice, they were happy to have me. But today, they let me down and I have to arrange myself. Well, it's going to be me alone who's going to do my business, "he says in essence to his spouse or his friend and confidant, Gaétan Gosselin.

Years later, to investigators who met him in jail, Desjardins will talk about his long sentence and say that he pleaded guilty and does his time without expecting anything in return, because he has too much pride for that. He will add that he has always accepted to live with the consequences of his actions.

He will also say that since his childhood in the Saint-Henri district, he has always negotiated rather than resort to violence and that today he prefers to ignore and avoid people who do not think like him.

Desjardins will consider it "irresponsible" that the police and the media continue to associate him with the Italian mafia. He will add that ever since his conviction, he has not contacted Vito Rizzuto or members of his family and his clan. However, he gives the impression that he continues to respect them, he and the members of his family.

He will conclude by saying that the experts know that he is not part of the mafia and that he will never be able to climb his ladder because he is not of Italian origin.

Be that as it may, in the spring of 2011, the police consider that Desjardins, Montagna and other individuals linked to organized crime are grouped together in an alliance which, for a year now, has been trying to exterminate the Rizzuto and to take the reins of the Montreal mafia in their place. Ways of proceeding during the attacks on Paolo Renda, Agostino Cuntrera and Patriarch Nicolo Rizzuto have similarities to crimes committed 30 years earlier in the mafia milieu and the police are wondering

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if the The Bonanno clans in New York, and Violi in Hamilton, can even pull some strings. One thing is certain: the alliance seems invincible. The thread that still keeps the Rizzuto alive is tenuous. Even some of their followers have joined the putschist camp. One of them even tells them that their reign is over.

- They are people who have eaten on the same plate as your son, on the phone Giovanna Cammalleri, haranguing her husband to do something.

But this one is far from the action. On April 1, 2011, Lorie McDougall and his superior Serge St-Denis return to visit the godfather at Florence Penitentiary to announce that they had gone the day before to meet the FBI officials to formulate his request for transfer to the East of the United States, but they have been categorically rejected.

"If you want something, you have to give us something in return," Vito Rizzuto, another FBI agent accompanying Canadian investigators, told reporters.

Rizzuto sees that this answer is not an April Fool's joke.

"Vito Rizzuto was discouraged, he thought he had a chance. His shoulders fell. He is inside, at the other end of the continent, and everyone is being killed around him. He has no way to protect his family, "says Lorie McDougall.

But does he really have no way? During this meeting which lasts about three hours, banalities are exchanged. The godfather does not seem so much on the lookout for what is happening in Montreal. He quizzes the investigators a little less. It's like he already knows things. As if he were waiting for the right moment.

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On September 16, 2011, at approximately 9:30 am, the passengers of the Laval Transit Company bus line 42 traveling east came out of their torpor when shots were fired on their right. Their gaze turns instinctively towards the river: an individual wearing a wetsuit pulls in the direction of two SUVs parked on the edge of boulevard Lévesque, on the banks of the Rivière des Prairies. In the following seconds, a BMW van with a broken rear window doubles the bus to the left and stops at a nearby shipyard for shelter.

We must not wait very long before the media announce the name of the target of this attack: it is Raynald Desjardins. The latter and the one that the police consider as his bodyguard, Jonathan Mignacca, had just begun a journey they made daily. They had parked their respective vehicles along the road when a man arrived by watercraft, and hidden behind a bush, opened fire on them with AK-47. Mignacca responded with a pistol while his boss fled, not without first taking the time to give the assailant a finger, as he later told investigators. No one was injured and the attacker fled from where he had come before abandoning his red watercraft on the other shore and setting it on fire.

Shortly afterwards, the protector of Desjardins was stopped by patrol officers of the Laval police. Others find his boss on the site and hold him for investigation. They ask him a few questions. Desjardins reports that he was shot at, that two bullets hit his head, that he leaned over and did not see anything afterwards. He no longer wants to answer the police questions on the subject, he says he "understands the game" and he "paused".

He talks about death and illness and says he prefers to die from a bullet rather than suffer.

About the nearby bus, he describes as "disgusting" the way the attack was done. He warns the police that he does not want to be filmed or photographed by the media, "because my mother will die if she sees that".

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ask if he did not shoot too. He is then taken to the Laval police station for interrogation. It's cold in the room and he asks for a blanket to warm up. For 22 minutes, the investigator can take every detour imaginable and use all the strategies to get the words out of his mouth, there is nothing to do.

- Listen, you are very nice and very professional, I am treated well, but I have nothing to say to you. I am the advice of my lawyer, tirelessly repeats the guy.

- We did not see that often, it looked like a James Bond movie. You got out of there miraculously, I can tell you that. Bullets fired in your direction can pass through a motor so they are powerful projectiles. You had an angel above your head. You have a lucky star, Mr. Desjardins! said the policeman, visibly playing the "good cop" trying to coax his subject.

- I know, answers Desjardins, before returning to his chorus. I am a very peaceful man and very calm. I am a father. I am not a savage. I know very well live. I respect all the people around me. I have always been very polite, but I have a lawyer who takes care of me and he told me not to talk, he concludes.

We will see soon if "the boots follow the chops".

Raynald Desjardins firmly believes that the attack against him was commanded by his ally yesterday, Salvatore Montagna. The two men reportedly scrambled in the spring of 2011 and the anti-Rizzuto alliance of the previous year is now split into two enemy groups. According to some, it is a sports betting affair that is at the origin of the conflict, but others argue that it is rather the attempt of extortion of the former Acting Chief Bonanno against two businessmen of the Italian community.

"I know it's you. I missed you, but I will not miss you! "Threatens Desjardins during a phone call made to one of the members of the Montagna clan in the minutes following the attack to which he miraculously escaped. For him, the affront is all the greater as it occurs two weeks before the wedding of his daughter.

Desjardins does not know it, but the members of its bodyguard and it are the subject of an important investigation of the RCMP which, after having squeezed the Sicilians in the Colisée investigation, attacks now on the emerging clans having taken of the magnitude within the Montreal mafia. During this investigation by the name of Clemenza, the investigators of the UMECO benefit in particular from a new technology never used by a Canadian police force: they can intercept and decode all the encrypted text messages that the suspects exchanged on their BlackBerry devices that they have changed and that they believe inviolable. Federal police officers follow all their deeds and actions. They see the vengeance of the Desjardins clan developing before their eyes and inform their colleagues at the Sûreté du Québec. They will deliver the messages to prevent a war and protect the ongoing investigation.

The very afternoon of the attempted murder against Desjardins, while the latter is detained by the police, Montagna asks to meet one of the trusted men of the boss to assure him that he has nothing to do with the murder. Laval bombing. The meeting takes place in a Tim Hortons of East Montreal. Desjardins's henchman returns shaken, he believes Montagna sincere, but his impression will not be retained.

In the following days, two investigators from the Sûreté du Québec, Benoît Dubé and Simon Beauchemin, tour the main players at the heart of the tensions. They face closed doors at Montagna and Vittorio Mirarchi, a young protégé of Raynald Desjardins, and leave their business card.

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no new "Maurice Boucher" war. Desjardins responds that he is a victim in this story. He repeats that he is a peaceful man and that he does not want problems.

The investigators then decided to meet the brother-in-law of Desjardins, Giuseppe Di Maulo, to use his influence to calm the game and prevent a bloodbath. The meeting takes place at supper time, in a pizzeria in Rosemère. Di Maulo, 69, is accompanied by his lawyer too. He offers wine to the police, who politely refuse. They are saying the same thing to Di Maulo.

"We know that the mafia drugs and controls sports betting, but if you start shooting at them, you do not want another biker war and innocent victims. Arrange between you, "they say in substance. Di Maulo responds that the media gives him a lot more importance than he actually has. The meeting lasts barely five minutes. Maybe Di Maulo, he says true.

On the morning of November 24, 2011, Salvatore Montagna left his residence and parked his vehicle in the parking lot of a hotel in downtown Montreal. He then takes the metro to Langelier station, where a man aboard a white van picks him up. The vehicle follows Sherbrooke Street in the east direction then Highway 40 before taking the exit for the city of Charlemagne and stop at the entrance of a small house on the island of Vaudry. Montagna and the mysterious driver enter the residence, but immediately, the former interim leader of the Bonanno clan feels the scam. He rushes out of the house by knocking down a French window, but he is hit with projectiles, one of which is in the back. Salvatore Montagna crosses the river L'Assomption swimming, but, exhausted and losing a lot of blood, he falls on the other bank and will not get up again. The detonations startled islanders, who saw the white van leave the scene and contacted 911. The police arrived on the spot and found the victim, who has no vital signs. Salvatore Montagna was considered by the media as the aspiring sponsor of the Montreal Mafia. Its elimination creates a shock wave. Even in New York, a local mafioso calls a member of the Rizzuto clan.

- What is happening ? We do not understand! Montagna was always dressed. Was he dressed? asks the New Yorker.

The man, who spoke English, used the word dressed which translates into French by dressed. But dressed, in criminal jargon, means armed.

- We do not know us either, we are surprised, answers his interlocutor of the Rizzuto clan.

- Do you need help there? Do you need some guys? asks the mafioso of New York again.

- No, it's ok, responds his interlocutor.

It was indeed "correct". The long-awaited reply from the Sicilians had begun and their opponents had seen nothing coming. Desjardins believes that it was Montagna who ordered the attack against him, but police are certain that these are the Rizzuto.

A few days before the attack on Desjardins, one of the Arcuri brothers was shot and wounded. One month later, Lorenzo Lo Presti, son of Giuseppe Lo Presti, who was killed in 1992, suffers the same fate as his father and is murdered while smoking a cigarette on the balcony of his apartment in the borough of Saint-Laurent. Lawrence. In December, it was the turn of Lo Presti's associate, Antonio Pietrantonio, a friend of Vito Rizzuto and a long-time Sicilian clan lover, to be the victim of an attempted murder. He would have rallied to Montagna.

"These are people who have eaten on the same plate as your son," said Vito Rizzuto's wife. She might not be wrong.

The vengeance, implacable, is thus primed. Obviously, the Sicilians, who could no longer trust anyone, found someone to do the job. Raynald Desjardins and his accomplices are arrested on December 20, 2011 for the murder

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of Montagna. The same day, in an intelligence report, the SPVM already mentioned, a few months in advance, the release of Vito Rizzuto, "which could change greatly the situation on the Montreal crime scene". Rizzuto is a "very significant individual of Italian organized crime in Montreal and his release could create a shockwave on our territory," reads the document.

But the shock wave is already well felt. The SPVM intelligence report mentions a list of people to be killed. The name of Ducarme Joseph would have figured at the top of it. The gang leader was indeed the first targeted, in March 2010, but he miraculously came out. This will be part discount.

In the spring of 2012, the hecatomb continues. Giuseppe Renda - no relation to the consigliere and brother-in-law of Vito Rizzuto Paolo Renda - who is related to families in New York and Ontario and who rallied to Montagna, is abducted during an appointment and you will never see him again. Renda, 53, had rarely left home for months. When he did, he was carrying a weapon and a bulletproof vest. He had curtains installed in all the windows and in the solarium of his luxurious house in Westmount to avoid the same fate as Nicolo Rizzuto's father.

During the summer, two individuals linked to street gangs - Chénier Dupuy and Lamartine Sévère Paul - are shot. It was reported that the two men were killed because they did not accept that street gangs were merged into one group under the aegis of Gregory Woolley, and that Dupuy had publicly failed to respect him. But a SPVM report indicates that they may have been eliminated because they were close to Ducarme Joseph, suggesting that their killings could also be linked to the murders of Nick Rizzuto Jr. and Federico Del Peschio, three years earlier.

In the fall of 2012, the black series continues in the opponents of the Sicilians. Others among their men are killed or wounded. We are a few weeks from the release of the sponsor. "We believe that since autumn 2011, the wind has turned in favor of the Rizzuto family. The facts show us the desire of the Rizzuto family to come back to Montreal, "wrote the authors of a Montreal police intelligence report on September 6, 2012.

The countdown to the sponsor's release from jail has begun and two RCMP investigators, Sergeant Michel Fortin and Staff Sergeant Christian Knight, are traveling to Florence one last time to meet him. The purpose of this visit is to gauge the intentions of Vito Rizzuto on his return to Canada, to warn him that they have him in the eye and make him sign an obligation to keep the peace, what is called in the jargon an "810". The police have the impression that it will brew in Montreal, that some people want Rizzuto to take his place, that they expect him as the "messiah" and that they are determined to prove their loyalty to him. The two Canadian police officers are accompanied by a special FBI agent who must take notes. The meeting takes place on October 1, 2012, four days before the release of Rizzuto. The latter appears in the usual large room at 9:15 am His body language is no longer the same. His look no more. He is no longer like in other meetings. He has regained his presence and his confidence.

The police begin with a few banalities. They tell the godfather that he looks good. He replies that he trains every day and quits smoking.

Michel Fortin brought a copy of a Montreal newspaper, one of which presents a photo of the entrepreneur Lino Zambito testifying to the Charbonneau Commission, which began its work.

- Look at this, your business is not going well, launches Michel Fortin.

- Ah yes ! It's Giuseppe's son, he's a good boy, "replies Vito Rizzuto," not bothered by the hint of the policeman.

Then, as if the time had stopped since January 20, 2004, the police and Rizzuto address the murder of Paolo Gervasi, murdered the day before the arrest of the godfather.

[CabriniGreen]

I'll stop here, this should be plenty to discuss for right now...

[CabriniGreen]

@antimafia

Your work deserves to be acknowledged as well, great work on the Arcuris. Between you and B., you guys could RIVAL the Renauds, the Humpreys, the Sergis...

[antimafia]

Antimafia is a good man who doesn't snipe at people -- I think he was commenting on some of the attitudes toward Adrian Humphreys recently, and if not that, there are plenty of other examples of members here trying to tear down journalists like Capeci, Schratweiser, and Scott/Detroit. Let's not dig into that, though, as this is a good thread. Can't imagine you have anything to worry about, Lupara, you're a good man as well. Personally I think it is more than appropriate to criticize journalists and authors in constructive way, but no reason to try and tear them down unless they are on a Phil Carlo level.

Yeah I figured that's what he meant.

Now we're all reasonable and good men here. Ofcourse we don't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

What I envision as a Q&A with Renaud is that someone (and I think Antimafia would be in the best position to do this if he would reconsider and with the assurances as if we were lawyers that Renaud would not be scorned) is that he wouldn't be sent the questions and then, if he wants to participate, returns the answers. And as far as I know, the only Canadian journalists that were ever "questioned" here are Humphreys and Lamothe. I've always held Renaud in high regards because he never showed any biasm concerning the relation between the Canadian and American mafias. I'm sure he will be treated with respect by most, if not all, posters here and not scorned for his answers (as long as he wouldn't make statements saying that the Rizzutos eclipsed the New York families even during their prime). [emoji39]

Lupara:

I thought I had responded to you yesterday but I don't see my reply post. It might not have have been posted. Or it might have been deleted because of the content and the tone; so I'll repeat some of what I wrote and I'll choose my words more judiciously.

My post was not directed at you. B.'s post above essentially encapsulated what I meant to convey, but I would add that there has been withering criticism not only of Adrian Humphreys but also Peter Edwards and, by virtue of being a co-author of The Sixth Family..., Lee Lamothe. In the past, on this forum and others, I have provided examples of Canadian organized-crime authors and journalists expressing opinions and views that demonstrate no agenda; examples that convey the opposite of hyping the Canadian mobsters and mafia groups about which they write or have written about: Humphreys tweeting a number of years ago that the Hamilton mafia's ties to the Buffalo Family were getting weaker and weaker every year; Lamothe saying, when being interviewed for a CBC documentary about the Rizzutos, that "Vito Rizzuto is a dead man walking"; Humphreys writing a column for his newspaper about how Vito royally screwed up by allegedly inducting Raynald Desjardins and Joe Bravo (Juan Ramon Fernandez); James Dubro's recent tweet about what exactly is left of the Buffalo Family for Domenico Violi to be underboss of.

When I had finished reading Edwards and Nicaso's Business or Blood..., I was left with the impression that the co-authors felt Rizzuto had chosen blood--not one of Rizzuto's better decisions. Renaud's latest book has a title that loudly states the book is about the fall of Rizzuto, the last godfather.

I won't invite Renaud to come on this board, even if an arrangement were made such that he wouldn't have to sign up to the forum, as it's not too difficult to imagine his character being later being abused after he were to provide answers.

[Lupara]

@Antimafia


Understood. Did you reply from Tapatalk? It has been acting weird hence I don't bother to use the quote function for now.


It's a petty you won't reach out to Renaud. There will always be people on the internet scorning someone for something and I think a journalist should be used to it and not have a thin skin about it. That being said, I very much doubt Renaud would be scorned fot his information.