| Expert press in Quebec are advancing 3 theories on the attempted hit of the mafia boss. The first is the intense hatred kingpin Raynald Desjardins maintains against the Rizzuto clan. Attacks against his group by the Sicilians have been numerous. Firmly entrenched with the Calabrian mafia, Desjardin has long been expected to exact his revenge. The second hypothesis revolves around rising Calabrian star Vittorio Mirarchi. Mirarchi was the protege of Raynald Desjardins, and his ties to the 'Ndrangheta in Ottawa and Toronto are rock solid. He and Raynald Desjardins are now free after serving time for killing Salvatore Montagna in 2011. The third theory involves former friends of Leonardo Rizzuto. He never had overwhelming support and over the past several weeks meetings have been observed between different members of the Sicilians. A purge to remove Leonardo Rizzuto's leadership would not be a surprise. |  |
| Leonardo Rizzuto, 53, boss in the Montreal mafia, has been wounded in an attempted hit. His vehicle was fired upon on Highway 440 in Laval. His Mercedes GLE 53 was peppered with a least 6 shots. It was parked in front of a funeral home at the corner of the Highway 13 service road and Rue Principale after the injured Rizzuto drove to escape his attackers. |  Rizzuto was shot in the leg. |
 Massari was the right-hand man of Salvatore Scoppa. | Jonathan Massari, 41, admitted he plotted to kill Lorenzo Giordano and Rocco Sollecito, leaders in the Rizzuto organization, during 2016. He also admitted to being part of the conspiracy to murder Vincenzo and Giuseppe Falduto. Led by Salvatore Scoppa, who maintained a list of people he wanted killed, the first was Lorenzo Giordano. An informant said he didn't participate in that murder, but Massari told him Dominico Scarfo was the gunman, while Massari acted as the getaway driver. The informant testified he personally shot Rocco Sollecito in Laval before jumping on the back of a motorcycle driven by Massari. |   |
 | Two Montreal cops are suspected of warning the manager of a bar linked to the mafia of a bust. Gelato café, located in Little Italy, is controlled by the Lopez family of the Montreal mafia. The clan controls several licensed establishments in north Montreal. Boss is Serafino 'Sergio Lopez' Oliverio. He was the target of an attempted hit Nov 2021.
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 | A party involving a hundred people celebrating the owner's anniversary was in progress before the intended raid. An agent from PDQ 35 noticed the presence of a patrol car from PDQ 27, with two cops on board, parked in front of the Gelato. The two cops from PDQ 27 were not in their area. No evidence was found of a stolen car call they said they received. 28 minutes later the party at Gelato café was over and people were leaving as quickly as possible. |
 François Mazzantini with envelope of cash from cops. | The dive into the world of mafia extortion and debt collection begins on March 11, 2021.
That day, François Mazzantini and brothers Antonio and Pasquale Piscopo assaulted Joël Ayoub with a baton at his condo building on Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine over a debt of $15k. Ayoub, 63 years old at the time, suffered serious injuries requiring hospitalization. A cop operation witnessed Pasquale Piscopo go twice to the Danesi café and once to Antonio Pietrantonio, known to be a member of the Montreal mafia. |  |
 | A double agent then contacted the suspects and posed as an individual who purchased Ayoub's debt and negotiated the terms of repayment. The gangsters said the debt had grown to $140k. The three were arrested on May 6, 2021. Cops discovered brass knuckles and three daggers in Mazzantini's vehicle. They also found 13 telescopic batons and $12k in cash. They landed more than $675k from one of the men. Mazzantini pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and extortion, and was sentenced to 48 months, while the two brothers were sentenced to 36 months. |  Antonio 'Tony Suzuki' Pietrantonio |
 | Sandel Pierre, 21, struck Pietro Poletti with a brick during an attack on the ex-detective and his mother in LaSalle in 2020. He was one of three men who attacked the pair. He bought 4 years.
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 | The court noted there was no evidence of a motive for the assault on Pietro Poletti and his mother. Before he retired, Poletti had been an expert on the Montreal Mafia and organized crime for decades. Neither victim required hospitalization. Mitchaino Bruno, who is affiliated with the Profit Boyz has been found guilty. He was sentenced to 8 years in June for discharging a gun in front of a convenience store in Montreal North. Yadley Deutz Saint Jean, 25 was also found guilty of assaulting Poletti. The two gangsters will be sentenced in June. |  |
 | Tafari Bezabeh, 19, and Jalen Joel Campbell Brown, 21, were both arrested in Ontario. Both appeared to face premeditated murder charges. An after-the-fact accessory charge has also been filed against Campbell Brown. They join Brit(t)ney Lewis who was busted shortly after Cherfan's murder. Cops arrested Britney Lewis, 25, on June 17 in connection with the murder of Bernard Cherfan. Britney Lewis is facing charges including first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. |  |
 | In 2020, Brittney Lewis, 23, Devante Long, 25, Nikeita Forbes, 28, and Jay Alexander, 19, faced 42 gun and drug charges. |
 | Bernard Cherfan, 42, was shot in the head on June 1 in front of 20 people, including several children. He had links to organized crime and extensive links to mob boss Stefano Sollecito. Cherfan's murder is said to be a symptom of a conflict in the making between factions of organized crime in Montreal. |  |
 | Cherfan had a criminal record and survived a previous attempt on his life in Laval in 2015.
Cherfan also had clear ties to convicted mafia hitman Frédérick Silva. Cherfan helped Silva hide while he was being sought by cops. Cherfan was the second person tied to Silva to be killed in less than a month. On May 11, Sébastien Giroux, 36, was fatally shot in St-Michel. He helped Silva hide from police following the Somoza-Gildea murder. See ----->Tracking Britney Lewis associates |
 Spagnolo on his way to Boho Bar. The victim described his assailant as "un vieux crisse de riche" (rich old man) | Nicola Spagnolo was found guilty of aggravated assault in a stabbing outside a bar in Old Montreal. Video from the bar sunk him. He will be sentenced April 26, 2023 and faces a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. Spagnolo’s connect to the Montreal mafia executive has nothing to do with his convicton. |
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The victim testified he didn't know Spagnolo before they began arguing after leaving the Boho bar. He said they were both drunk.  Mafia brunch at Holts Cafe. |  |
 | Accused of attempting to kill a man at a bar in Old Montreal, Mafioso Nicola Spagnolo was released on conditions. Spagnolo was charged with aggravated assault, an attempted murder charge was dropped. Spagnolo is the son of Vincenzo Spagnolo, assassinated at his Laval residence in October 2016. Spagnolo’s father was killed by mistake, it was supposed to target his son. The elder Spagnolo was a close friend to Vito Rizzuto, leader of the Montreal Mafia. Cops had considered Spagnolo to be a member of the Montreal mafia's executive, sitting alongside Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito. |  |
 Kevin Tate, Stanley Minuty, Edrick Antoine and Olivier Gay. | Tate, 39, was part of a group of the reds, Unit 44, from the Bo-gars. They watched Gaetan Gosselin for two days before killing him in front of his home. Gaétan Gosselin was Raynald Desjardins' best friend; Gosselin took care of his business and family after his arrest for the murder of Salvatore Montagna on Dec 21, 2011. |
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In Sept 2022, cops from the Sûreté du Québec met with the detainees, including Tate, to tell them that there were contracts on their heads. Another gang conflict may be responsible but all expect Raynald Desjardins to take his bloody gangland revenge. That surely applies to these four. The parole board wasn't impressed with Tate; “Your Case Management Team (CMT) believes that you pose a real threat to others. You present a low potential for social reintegration and an unacceptable risk to society." As for the boss, Desjardins he will be out soon as another statutory date passes. See ----->Raynald Desjardins returned to jail |
 Souverain was already in custody on other gun charges. | Gahens Lee Souverain, 23, has been charged with attempted murder in the Laval shooting last year of Davide Barberio. Mafia strongman
Davide Barberio, 42, was shot in his driveway Sept 21, 2021. A gunman fired twice towards Barberio, using a 9mm fitted with a silencer. |  Barberio recovered. |
 | After hitting Barberio in the abdomen, the gunman fled in a dark colored Honda CRV with stolen license plates. Barberio worked under Giuseppe De Vito, an influential mafia boss who was poisoned by cyanide on July 8, 2013 while serving time in a federal pen. Barberio left the Calabrians in order to join the Sicilians of the Rizzuto clan. His influence is significant, in May 2021 top Hells Angels David Lefebvre, Martin Robert, Stéphane Plouffe and Michel Lamontagne met with mafiosos Francesco Del Balso, Marco Pizzi, Davide Barberio and Steven D'Adario at the Prima Luna restaurant. New HA Michel Lamontagne celebrated his birthday in the company of some big names in Montreal organized crime. Lamontagne was charged with possession of a firearm and breach for owning a weapon after the pow wow. That charge was eventually dropped. |  |
 | Vincenzo Armeni, 66, had a long history of close ties to the Montreal Mafia. Cops found him lying on the pavement of a strip mall’s parking lot. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police found a burned-out SUV not far away. In 2007, Armeni received a 19-year sentence for his role in a conspiracy to traffic 760 kgs of cocaine. When Armeni was arrested in 2005 he was out on parole on a 10-year stretch received in 1998 for smuggling 160 kgs of cocaine. In 1986 it was heroin trafficking. |  On Dec. 1, 2014 his brother-in-law Tonino Callocchia, a high-ranking member of the Montreal Mafia, was killed. |
 | Armeni is described as someone who, from the age of 20, “adopted a lifestyle that centred on ease, greed, compulsive work in businesses and the inflexible code of ‘men of honour,’” While incarcerated at Archambault Institution, he wrote a letter that critized the institution's living conditions and argued for reduced life sentences and better prisoner pay. On Aug. 17, 2020, Armeni was released upon reaching his statutory release. |
 Ricova is in hot water for having defrauded the City of Montreal of more than $1m. | An RCMP intelligence report in 2020 indicated that Ricova and its leader, Domenico Colubriale, "may be" involved in "shipping container drug trafficking and money laundering through exports of recycled paper." Ricova is a major player in the waste industry in Quebec. The company manages sorting centers in Montreal and the South Shore. It is also responsible for garbage collection in many cities in the south of the province, as well as 25% of Montreal. Many of Ricova's recyclables vendors work from Colombia. |  |
 | In June the company was blacklisted by the City of Montreal for five years, which prevents it from obtaining new contracts. Ricova applied to the court to have this decision overturned. The SQ reports contacts between one of Ricova's leaders and the Rizzuto clan.
This individual heads the Ricova Services subsidiary. This company obtained at least $150m in public contracts over the past five years. |
 | Soninder Dhingra, 49, was busted with 94kg of cocaine and 15kg of crystal meth in 2013. He pleaded guilty to importing narcotics and was sentenced to 10 years in jail. Taking into account the time spent in detention, for which each day counts as a day and a half, there was only one day left to serve for Dhingra. Dhingra imported drugs with the help of a corrupt customs officer. After an initial trial, Dhingra was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years. He took his case to the Court of Appeal, arguing that his first trial began in English and gradually and then completely took place in French, and that violated his constitutional rights. The new trial was being prepared when negotiations began last week between the prosecution and the defense. |  Project Abri targeted drug importers linked to a member of the Montreal Mafia. |
 | The ongoing confessions of the Terrebonne killer will shake the pillars of the Montreal Mafia, the Hells Angels and other criminal organizations says reliable Quebec press. In 2013, during the Magot investigation, cops began to observe Silva in the company of big names in organized crime. The new star cop witness has been giving information since the beginning of the summer and it is said to be huge. |  Silva with gang leader Gregory Woolley in December 2014. |
 | "Our sources tell us that "it's bigger than Gérald Gallant"." This comparison refers to the famous hitman turned informer who confessed to 28 murders. It is said Frédérick Silva has provided detailed statements about several dozen murders committed on behalf of various organized crime factions in Quebec. The killer was so busy that he called on subcontractors who carried out some of his murder contracts. Like Gallant, he was unable to quantify the amounts of money he received. Unlike Gallant, Silva is seeking no compensation for his cooperation. His only demand was for protection for him and his family. Big names in Quebec organized crime ought to be getting worried, their time is running out, quickly. |
See ----->Frédérick Silva in the news - a rat
 | The revelation that mob boss Stefano Sollecito has lost favor with his cohorts at the top table coincides with cop warnings that the return of Raynald Desjardins has triggered a war. The Sicilian clan and that of Desjardins have both been decimated by dozens of settlings of scores since 2004. There is no way they can live in peace now according to cops. Desjardins was brought back behind bars for having violated the conditions of his parole. Cops have warned him twice that plots for his death are afoot. Private security around Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito has been reinforced in recent months. Both men have been warned by cops, with Sollecito being a prime target. |  |
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See ----->Bernard Cherfan whacked in Laval
 | Central figures involved in Project Hobart will walk. “All of the charges on both indictments are withdrawn” the judge said. With 28 arrests in Dec 2019, cops crowed about their awesomeness in disrupting a $131m illegal gambling network with links to GTA mobsters. One of the group’s enforcers, HA Michael Deabaitua-Schulde, was being watched by cops when he was executed. Walking are Hells Angels Craig 'Truck' McIlquham, 49 at the time, Robert Barletta, then 49, and Eugenio 'Gino' Reda, then 55. The case would take 41 months and seven days to wind through the courts — 11 months beyond the constitutional ceiling for the reasonable time for a trial, as laid out in the landmark 2016 Supreme Court ruling R. v. Jordan. |  |
| OPP charged Robert Barletta, Craig 'Truck' McIlquham, and Eugenio 'Gino' Reda for running a gambling ring. The network was pulling in revenues of more than $131m over five years and included scores of betting sites; Ultimate SB, Titan SB, PlaytoWin WB, Privada SB and Players SB. The operation was linked to the Figliomeni crime family. On Jan. 27, 2021 prosecutors stayed charges against the mafia, including boss Angelo Figliomeni. The cop investigation was tainted by "unlawful and illegal conduct." One dirty oinker stole a high end watch. |  |
 Wooley has his own reasons for wanting to live elsewhere. In early May, the house next door was mistakenly targeted by gunfire. Shortly after, shell casings were discovered on the property. Both incidents were seen as targeting Woolley directly. | The house, listed for sale at $3.8m, is registered to Christelle Huot, 37. Revenu Québec is trying to recover a debt from her to the tune of $80,000. If Christelle Huot fails to pay within the allotted time, the luxurious home with a 400 bottle wine cellar, built-in sound system, in-ground swimming pool, separate staff accommodation and a 70,000 square foot wooded lot, could be seized. The former reality TV contestant's financial troubles don't end there. A Bahamian loan company she took out one of her mortgages with issued a notice of default for over $650k in July 2021. The amount remains outstanding. |  |
 | Gregory Woolley, closely tied to both the Montreal mafia and the Hells Angels, was targeted during two incidents in the past month. Bullet holes were found in a neighbor's house and last week shell casings were found after shots rang out beside his property. Considered "the godfather" of Montreal street gangs, Woolley changed the landscape of the drug trade in Montreal. Its said the home has been put up for sale for $3.8m. Woolley was released in November 2020 after a five-year sentence for gangsterism. |  Gregory Woolley |
 | One of those busted in a weapons trafficking operation was Daniel Charleus. He is close to blues gang leader Jean-Philippe Célestin. Charleus served as a contact to sell guns to Célestin. Célestin is closely tied to Gregory Woolley. Cops seized four handguns, a fully automatic long gun, ammunition and more than $50,000 in cash. Firearms sold by the group are suspected in the countless shootings that have taken place in the metropolis in recent months. |  Jean-Philippe Célestin |
 | Reliable Quebec press are reporting Frédérick Silva, 42, will confess to all his crimes, his accomplices, and implicate those giving the orders. Frédérick Silva tried to kill mafia boss Salvatore Scoppa in 2017 who was then murdered in the spring of 2019. Close to the Hells Angels, Sébastien Beauchamp was killed by a bullet in the head in 2018. Silva had refused to cooperate but had a change of heart after being warned of a contract on his life. Realizing he was living on borrowed time in jail he flipped. |
 | Hitman Frédérick Silva was whisked away by a police helicopter from the federal Ste-Anne-des-Plaines penitentiary north of Montreal. He is now under 24 hour police protection at a secret location. It is related to a 'major investigation'. Silva was convicted of killing a total of four men. Among the men Silva killed was Sébastien Beauchamp, a former member of a Hells Angels puppet club in Dec 2018. He was also convicted of the attempted murder of mafia boss Salvatore Scoppa. Two associates of Silva have been killed within the past two months. Sébastien Giroux was shot in St-Michel on May 11. Bernard Cherfan a month ago. |  Frédérick Silva went by metro to murder Alessandro Vinci in October 2018. |
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 Frédérick Silva (left) and Bernard Cherfan. |
| Cops arrested Britney Lewis, 25, on June 17 in connection with the murder of Bernard Cherfan. Britney Lewis is facing charges including first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. In 2020, Brittney Lewis, 23, Devante Long, 25, Nikeita Forbes, 28, and Jay Alexander, 19, faced 42 gun and drug charges. |
Cherfan's murder is said to be a symptom of a conflict in the making between factions of organized crime in Montreal. | Bernard Cherfan was shot in the head on June 1 in front of 20 people, including several children. The 42-year-old had links to organized crime and extensive links to mob boss Stefano Sollecito. | |
| Cherfan had a criminal record and survived a previous attempt on his life in Laval in 2015. Cherfan also had clear ties to convicted mafia hitman Frédérick Silva. Cherfan helped Silva hide while he was being sought by cops. Cherfan was the second person tied to Silva to be killed in less than a month. On May 11, Sébastien Giroux, 36, was fatally shot in St-Michel. He helped Silva hide from police following the Somoza-Gildea murder. | |
 | Those looking for him have been coming up empty for over 20 years. Cops are entering their 21st year in pursuit of HA David 'Wolf' MacDonald Carroll.
Carroll, now 70, has been on the run since 2001 when he was indicted for drug trafficking, racketeering and murder, along with boss and close friend Maurice 'Mom' Boucher. |  Involved in over a dozen murders, Carroll was one of Boucher’s primary street lieutenants and a key member of his Nomads. |
 David MacDonald Carroll was an efficient killer. | Carroll was born in Halifax, and joined a local OMG called the 13th Tribe, which eventually became the Hells Angels Halifax chapter. He would go on to become president. Personally recruited by Boucher, he came to Montreal in 1995 and was placed in charge of drug dealing in the Laurentians. |  Carroll was charged in the Lennoxville massacre – but was acquitted. |
 | He became Boucher’s most trusted hit man, taking part in at least 15 murders. The Wolf did a year in jail for running a prostitution ring in Montreal in the mid-1980s. He didn’t intend on going back. When he got word in early 2001 of a major bust, he disappeared. When cops spread out across Quebec in Operation Printemps, they nailed everyone but David Carroll. 21 years later, they’re still looking. One of his sightings was in Australia in 2012. He’s said to be supporting his travels by setting up drug deals in the countries he’s visited. He was nearly busted in the Dominican Republic. Cops missed him by weeks. |  |
 | The Nomads August 5, 2000, months before 'Operation Springtime 2001'. From left to right top: Michel Rose (sentenced 22 years), Donald 'Pup' Stockford (20 years), Gilles 'Trooper' Mathieu (20 years), Richard (Dick) Mayrand (22 years), Denis Houle (20 years), David 'Wolf' Carroll (0). From left to right bottom: Walter 'Nurget' Stadnick (20 years), René Charlébois (20 years), Normand Robitaille (21 years), Maurice (Mom) Boucher. (life) Detectives visited Carroll at his apartment in February 2001. The cops and Carroll spoke for several hours about different topics, including becoming an informant and his take on the Biker Wars. Over 130 members of the Hells Angels and associates were arrested across Quebec a month after Carroll's meeting with cops. |
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Davide Barberio, 42, was shot in his driveway Sept 21, 2021. A gunman fired twice towards Barberio, using a 9mm pistol fitted with a silencer. Barberio recovered.
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| Barberio worked under Giuseppe De Vito, an influential mafia boss who was poisoned by cyanide on July 8, 2013 while serving time in a federal pen. Barberio left the Calabrians in order to join the Sicilians of the Rizzuto clan. His influence is significant, in May 2021 top Hells Angels David Lefebvre, Martin Robert, Stéphane Plouffe and Michel Lamontagne met with mafiosos Francesco Del Balso, Marco Pizzi, Davide Barberio and Steven D'Adario at the Prima Luna restaurant. New HA Michel Lamontagne celebrated his birthday in the company of some big names in Montreal organized crime. Lamontagne was charged with possession of a firearm and breach for owning a weapon. That charge was eventually dropped. |  |
 | Montreal Mafia chief Leonardo Rizzuto has been acquitted of drug and gun charges. It was shown evidence leading to the search warrant being issued for Rizzuto's home had come from the conversations recorded at a law firm. Those recordings were deemed illegal and the evidence from them then tainted the obtained search warrant. The judge agreed with the defense saying “The impugned conduct (of the police) is serious and has a great impact on (Rizzuto’s) constitutional rights." Rizzuto and his longtime friend, Stefano Sollecito, 51, are considered to be leaders of the Montreal Mafia. |  |
 | Jean-Richard 'Race' Larivière, received his Hells jacket in March 2017 after being promoted to a member in good standing of the Montreal chapter. In 2018 the National Organized Crime Squad (ENRCO) seized his patches. Unlike his colleagues who prefer leather, Larivière chose a camouflage fabric jacket to embroider the club's logo, the Montreal chapter crest, and the slogan AFFA. In the Hells Angels, having your colors in the hands of the police is seen as an insult. The club's quasi-military bylaws stipulate that all members "are obliged to have their jackets". The problem is that they do not have the right to have more than one jacket in their possession. |  'Race' had to order another set of patches. |
 Cops seized more than $2m in the safe at the Nomads Chapter of the Hells in January 2001. | Larivière was imprisoned in 2001 as the biker war was coming to an end. Larivière controlled drug and cash 'banks' on behalf of the Nomads. On Dec 5, 2000, he graduated as a Nomad prospect and expected to join the Hells. But the cops closed down the 'Bank of Nomads' by seizing $2m and $ 17m in drugs. |  Larivière (right) with Hells Angels Nomads. Top row is Michel Rose, Normand Robitaille, René Charlebois and Gilles Mathieu. |
 Larivière became HAMC in 2017 | Larivière was arrested on July 6, 2020 after a dispute at the Pizzeria Sofia restaurant. The owner had announced last call before closing. Unhappy that the supply of booze ended, Larivière attacked him. The altercation was captured by surveillance cameras. Larivière, 54, pleaded guilty to a charge of common assault. Charges of assault causing bodily harm and uttering threats were dropped. Larivière has already been fined $1k for obstructing cops at the 2018 Martin Robert wedding in Montreal. He was drunk then as well and cops had to subdue him with a taser. |  |
 Gregory Woolley at HA Lionel Deschamps funeral in November 2015 | The first street gangs appeared more than 30 years ago in Montreal. The Bloods (Red) of Montreal-North, the Crips (Blue) of Saint-Michel and the Jamaican Posse in the West Island of Montreal fired on each other every week. From January 2006 to December 2007, street gangs were involved in 26 homicides and 96 attempted murders. It was war. By 2012, long-time rivals became allies under the rule of Gregory Woolley, the only black gangster to be admitted into both the Hells Angels family and Montreal mafia. Gangsters learned an economic alliance was preferred to feuds because the criminal trade was big enough for everyone. In 2017 and 2018, out of a total of 15 murders attributable to organized crime in Montreal, none were connected to street gangs. By working together they were far less visible to police. |
 | Toronto has had a record year of 96 murders. Mayor John Tory said gangs were involved in 75% of the killings and 424 shootings in 2018. The business model of street gangs and their biker and mafia partners in Quebec is unique. Part of the reason is that the Hells Angels don't control all illicit markets as strongly as in Quebec. Criminologists say gangs elsewhere are fighting over crumbs. With a level of maturity and well-established hierarchy with other crime groups, the rules are clear in Montreal, and the cake is shared. |  |
 | Like Vito Rizzuto was for the Italian mafia, Gregory Woolley is seen as the "godfather of blacks." He plays a critical role in Montreal's underworld. His meetings on August 5, 2014 give a convincing example. In the morning he met Andrea Scoppa, a big Mafia man. Two hours later he met with Salvatore Cazzetta and Stéphane Jarry, two high-ranking Hells Angels. He completed his day with an hour talk with acting mafia boss Stefano Sollecito. Last October, Woolley was sentenced to eight years for conspiracy, drug trafficking and gangsterism. He could be released on parole by the end of 2020. |  |
 | Tony Magi's luck has finally run out. Magi, a construction entrepreneur who had close ties to Vito Rizzuto and survived being kidnapped in April 2005, and at least three attempts on his life, died shortly after he was taken to a hospital after being shot. Magi was found lying in front of building that was under construction. He was rushed to hospital in critical condition but died of his injuries. |  |
 | Police marveled how Magi managed to survive this long. Magi had links to Montreal’s Mafia crime families for decades. From 2003 to 2005, Magi and boss Vito Rizzuto went into business together to develop condos in the Old Port of Montreal, through Magi’s FTM Construction. Rizzuto told Magi he wanted his son, Nick, to get into the construction business. Nick Rizzuto Jr. was shot to death near the office of FTM construction in 2009. |  |
 | There are only two ways in or out of Castlepoint Dr. in Woodbridge, a quiet residential street where Cosimo Ernesto Commisso, 33, and his girlfriend, Chantelle Almedia, 26, were murdered last week. Investigators are gathering video cam and home security video along the street since the shooting, hoping for evidence. Commisso was related to Cosimo (The Quail) Commisso of Siderno, Italy, considered to be a top 'Ndrangheta organized crime boss. Some of his Canadian relatives had clashed with the Wolfpack gang. |  There were two credible death threats against other men in the Commisso family in York last year, and they declined police protection. |
 Mihale Leventis | The threats came as the Wolfpack aligned itself with enemies of the GTA 'Ndrangheta. The killer on Friday morning was waiting for the couple to arrive in a white Mazda SUV. Almedia's body was found in the Mazda while Cosimo Ernesto Commisso was on the driveway. Cosimo Ernesto Commisso clashed in 2016 with Anastasios (Tassos) Leventis, the brother of drug trafficker Mihale Leventis, well connected to the Wolfpack. Anastasios Leventis was murdered in a brazen daylight hit in January 2017. |  Chantelle Almeida |
 | Steve Ovadia was shot in the head in the parking lot of a strip mall last week. Two men fled the scene of the shooting, but no arrests have been made. Ovadia had been observed meeting with Mafia leaders Stefano Sollecito and Leonardo Rizzuto while they were under police surveillance. |  |
 Andrea (Andrew) Scoppa | Ovadia’s name was also mentioned during a bail hearing for Andrea (Andrew) Scoppa, the alleged leader of the Calabrian clan within the Montreal Mafia. Ovadia did not have a criminal record in Quebec, but did have a peace bond after threatening someone. The murder was carried out one day after John Mckenzie, 48, a man with ties to the West End Gang, was shot in Laval. McKenzie survived. |  |
 Francesco 'Chit' Del Balso | Francesco Del Balso is convinced the armed men who stormed into his home in May and terrorized his children intended to kill him. Although he and his family were the victims of the home invasion, it set off a chain of events that saw Del Balso returned to the relative safety of a federal penitentiary to continue serving the overall 15-year sentence he received in 2008. Del Balso spoke at length about the home invasion during a hearing and said it left him in shock for weeks because his family was at risk. |  |
 | Del Balso was away from home when he received a text message from his 12-year son that sent chills through his body. "Daddy. Daddy. Help help help. There’s a man with a gun”. The 12-year-old boy was upstairs at the time while one of the armed men was on the main floor pointing a gun at his brother, demanding to know where Del Balso was. Del Balso called 911 and headed for his home, and he arrived at the same time as police. By then, the two armed men had fled. Marc Berthelot and David Cormier were in a car that was pulled over by Laval police minutes later. The Parole Board of Canada found a photo of a firearm and other photos “linked to the Hells Angels” on Berthelot's phone January 30th. |  Marc Laflamme Berthelot |
 | “I felt like a sitting duck,” Del Balso said explaining why he “ripped off” an ankle bracelet with a GPS tracking device that he agreed to wear. He said he left the bracelet on the lawn of his home in the hopes it would draw more police officers to his home and protect his family. He disappeared for more than two hours before turning himself in to the Laval police. |  “I know someone wants to kill me. I have to watch myself,” Del Balso said. |
See ----->http://gangstersoutt.blogspot.ca/2017/03/francesco-chit-del-balso-out-and-about.html
See ----->http://gangstersoutt.blogspot.ca/2016/06/girolamo-del-balso-busted-by-amigo.html
 | Career Quebec drug trafficker and money launderer Sabatino (Sammy) Nicolucci has been banned from setting foot in Montreal’s Little Italy, along with any “Italian-style coffee shops”. Nicolucci, 70, was known as the Montreal Mafia’s drug and money launderer. Most of Nicolucci’s adult life has been spent in prison, as a fugitive or on parole. His first criminal conviction in Canada was in 1973. |  |
 | In 1992 police traced a $1.7-million purchase of 280 kilograms of cocaine made by Nicolucci on behalf of Vito Rizzuto. Nicolucci refused to pay the Colombian drug cartel, claiming the cocaine was poor quality. The Colombians kidnapped him from Castel Tina, an infamous Montreal strip club he managed, and smuggled him to Colombia. Nicolucci negotiated a deal with his kidnappers; his life would be spared and he would work off his debt to the cartel in Colombia. Arrested, he arrived back in Canada and faced 437 charges for drug trafficking and money laundering. He received a combined sentence of 33 years. |  |
 | “You are forbidden to be inside the quadrilateral limited by the following streets: St-Laurent, Jean-Talon, Bellechasse and Alma,” the board said, naming the boundaries of Montreal’s Little Italy. “The main contributing factors related to your criminality are identified as criminal associations, bad judgment, pride, financial difficulties, lax values and the lure of easy gain.” |  |
 Salvatore 'the iron worker' Montagna hours before his murder | Jack Simpson, 75, the trigger man who actually shot Montagna, received the longest overall sentence at 10 years. At the time of the murder, Simpson was on parole from a 28-year sentence he had received in 2000 for trafficking 300 kilograms of cocaine in California.
Salvatore Montagna was shot three times inside Simpson’s home on Île Vaudry, off the eastern tip of Montreal, and ran outside in a futile attempt to escape his fate. After crossing a narrow section of the Assomption River, Montagna collapsed and died. |  Jack Arthur Simpson |
 Vittorio Mirarchi | Vittorio Mirarchi, 39, a man who had considerable influence in the plot, was sentenced to a nine-year prison term. Raynald Desjardins, the leader in the plot to eliminate his rival, was sentenced to a 14-year prison term in December. Five of the six men were left with sentences of under two years when the time they have already served was factored in. That means they can serve their sentences in provincial detention and will be eligible for releases soon, in some cases in a matter of weeks. Both Desjardins and Montagna were trying to take control of the Montreal Mafia in 2011 when the latter was killed. The two had tried to work together but their partnership fell apart. Desjardins assumed Montagna was behind a failed attempt to kill him on Sept. 16, 2011 in Laval. |  Raynald Desjardins |
 Giuseppe “Joe” Renda | Two days before the attempt was made on Desjardins’s life, the Sûreté du Québec had Montagna under surveillance. He met with two men — Giuseppe (Joseph) Renda and Antonio (Tony Suzuki) Pietrantonio. Both men sided with Montagna. Pietrantonio was shot and critically wounded at a strip mall weeks after Montagna was killed. Renda disappeared in May 2012 and hasn't been seen since. |  Antonio (Tony Suzuki) Pietrantonio |
 | Once considered a rising star in the Montreal Mafia Danny (Arm) De Gregorio, 49, was caught with a loaded gun. He was sentenced in November to a 32-month prison term for having carried a loaded firearm, with the serial number scratched off, in 2011, while the Rizzuto organization was in conflict with other Mafia clans. De Gregorio has had ties in the past to the clans that are considered rivals to the Rizzuto organization. He has been granted early parole and will be transferred to a halfway house near the end of May and will be granted a full release in October. |  |
 | De Gregorio told the board that he was carrying the firearm because of an attempt on his life in 2009, when he was shot at least four times. Before granting him the release, the board asked De Gregorio about the legitimate job he had just before he was sentenced late last year. De Gregorio worked as “a pizza man” at Linguini, a restaurant that burned down two days before he was sentenced on Nov. 29. |  |
 | Le Journal de Montréal reported that about 20 men with Mafia ties from Ontario and Quebec were at the restaurant just weeks before the fire. Among them were two sons of Paolo Violi, a Mafioso who was killed in 1978 by the Rizzuto organization. Violi’s death cleared the path for the Rizzutos to take control of the Montreal Mafia for decades. |
 | In 2008, De Gregorio was arrested and charged in connection with a kidnapping. The men who carried out the kidnapping were trying to collect money that the victim owed. Among the people arrested was Salvatore Scoppa, the brother of Andrea (Andrew) Scoppa, a man alleged to be the leader of a Calabrian clan within the Montreal Mafia. |  |
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Decimated by internal disputes and police raids, the Montreal mafia has no real leadership three years after the death of Vito Rizzuto. His 20 year legacy died with him and most consider the Rizzuto organization routed. 2016 has been among the worst ever in the last decade in terms of killings in the mafia community. Lorenzo Giordano, Rocco Sollecito and Vincenzo Spagnolo all met their fates. The two main known leaders of the mafia, Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito, are awaiting trial for conspiracy, drug trafficking and gangsterism. Leonardo was denied bail and is in prison. Sollecito was released and is fighting what is said to be cancer. |
 | Francesco Del Balso was supposed to be released from prison in June after serving two thirds of a 15 year sentence, but when Lorenzo (Skunk) Giordano, 52, was fatally shot in Laval on March 1 he was returned to jail for his own safety. The other still living member is Francesco Arcadi, who remains behind bars.  |  |
 | 2017 could give rise to a changing of the guard with the Calabrian in a good position to regain control. How this could happen between them and the resurgent Hells Angels remains unclear. The Hells Angels will increase their stranglehold in 2017. No criminal organization in Quebec has the ability to stand up to the Hells. The bikers are in a well structured, strong position. They now control virtually 85% of the Quebec market for narcotics and collect a sales tax of 10% (even on the Mafia) on those who operate in their territory. |
 | Montreal businessman Tony Papa doesn't like to be called an informant. But over three interviews spanning 5½ hours, Papa provided information to investigators at Quebec's securities regulator — the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF). "Yes, I can help you nail whoever the hell you want to nail," Papa tells the AMF investigators on the recording. Yes, I do know what the fuck goes on. Yes. That's why ask me a straight question, I'll give you a straight answer." In the interviews, the AMF tells Papa that he and a number of others are under investigation by the AMF for manipulation of penny stocks. |  |
 | Papa was a 'close friend' to some of Montreal's top Mafia figures including Vito Rizzuto and Moreno Gallo. Rizzuto died of lung cancer in 2013. That same year, Gallo, a top underworld figure and convicted murderer, was gunned down in Mexico. In 2005, RCMP Project Colisée wiretapped the Rizzuto hangout — the Consenza Social Club. In one recording, organized crime figures Joe and Paolo Renda are caught on tape complaining angrily about Papa, alleging he had "fraudulently transferred" three million stock shares. In the transcript, Joe Renda is quoted as wanting "permission to grab Tony Papa alone, we put him in a basement." |  |
 | In the interviews, Papa says he is willing to co-operate with the securities regulator if it is kept confidential and "you guys can help me with some of my other problems as well." In 2013 Papa was also dealing with a Canada Revenue Agency audit that claimed he owed millions. Papa eventually paid $6 million. Instead of providing evidence against market manipulators, Papa says he was simply trying to sell the AMF on the idea of having him collect millions of dollars in funds. "I made it very clear. I'll charge you 50 per cent. Everything I collect I keep 50, I give you back 50 per cent" Papa told the fifth estate. |
 | Police and experts are in agreement ... the Calabrian mafia, confined for 40 years in the Toronto area, is returning to Montreal. Most believe it is only a matter of time before the 'Ndrangheta' (Calabrian mafia region of Italy) reestablishes dominance in Montreal. It isn't just revenge, there is a clear intention to eradicate the heads of the Sicilian faction of the Montreal Mafia and all of those in their circles. Experts believe it is certain that more associated with the Vito Rizzuto clan will be killed. That list has grown much shorter over the past year however. |
 | It was a cold, rainy day on October 21 for the funeral of Vincenzo Spagnolo. Parking filled up quickly at the church Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel Saint-Léonard, where many other mafia have been brought before their final rest. Most believe it won't be the last funeral for the Rizzuto family. |  Leonardo Rizzuto |
 Stefano Sollecito |  Francesco Arcadi |  Francesco Del Balso |  Marco Pizzi |  Liborio Cuntrera |
 | A man who had close ties to former crime boss Vito Rizzuto was gunned down in Laval on Saturday, in what police described as a "settling of accounts."
Vincenzo Spagnolo, 65, was killed at his home in the city's Vimont neighbourhood. Laval Police were called to a house on Antoine-Forestier Street at around 5:30 p.m. concerning a man who had been struck by multiple gunshots. Vincenzo Spagnolo was the best friend and trusted confidant of Vito Rizzuto, the former godfather of the Montreal Mafia. Spagnolo was one of those who had received the godfather in Toronto in October 2012, when Vito Rizzuto returned to Canada after spending six years in US jails for his involvement in the murders of three captains of the Bonanno clan in 1981. |  |
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 Juan Ramon Fernandez, right, with Giuseppe Carbone shortly before Carbone helped kill him. | Two mobsters in Sicily were sentenced to life in prison for killing two gangsters from Canada. Juan Ramon Fernandez, 56, had been deported from Canada when he was cut down in a hail of bullets in 2013. Dying beside him in the ambush was Fernando Pimentel, 36, of Mississauga, who was visiting Italy to help his exiled boss. Pietro Scaduto, 51, Salvatore Scaduto, 54, and Giuseppe Carbone shot Fernandez and Pimentel on April 9, 2013. Carbone became a cooperating witness against the brothers. |  Pietro Scaduto, left, Salvatore Scaduto. |
 | Fernandez had torn loyalties. He was close to both Rizzuto and Desjardins and owed much to each of them. Desjardins had first brought Fernandez into a higher echelon of crime but it was Rizzuto who gave him his true power. Fernandez claimed Rizzuto even inducted him as a “made man” of the Mafia — despite him being Spanish not Italian. Fernandez’s sin was his failure to chose a side: He was “like a priest who visits all the churches,” Carbone was told. |  The order to kill Fernandez came from Canada. |
| The bodies were dumped in a shallow grave and set ablaze. The car was then driven to a different location and also set on fire to destroy evidence. Unable to resist profit Carbone slipped an expensive watch off Fernandez’s wrist. It had been a gift to him from Rizzuto. Carbone was later caught trying to sell the watch, leading to his arrest. He agreed to help police with their investigation and to testify against his co-accused, becoming a “pentito” in Italian parlance. |
Raynald Desjardins was into his second bottle of wine when two detectives visited him on the evening of 25 November 2011. Police reported that he was "nervous". It was the day after Desjardins had conspired to kill Salvatore (Sal the Iron Worker) Montagna.
 Shot three times, Montagna smashed through a window of the house to save himself. | Five days before, Montagna had sent him a text message ... "I want you to know that you are my friend (lol) and I will never let you down. I hope we can settle our disputes". Montagna then agreed that Jack Simpson - a Desjardins man - get him to take him to the meeting. But Desjardins was not there. Five minutes after his arrival, Montagna fled Simpson's house with three .357 gunshot wounds. |
 Footprints at the edge of the river were consistent with Jack Simpson's boots. | The day after the murder of aspiring godfather Salvatore Montagna, Raynald Desjardins was obsessed by the fear of being killed. The boss was worried, anxious and irritable. He is not satisfied with the armored Lexus he procured after being targeted in mid-September. He arranges to import an armoured GMC Denali SUV equipped with a bomb protection system. Desjardins is arrested the next day. |  |
Raynald Desjardins in 2011 | During a brief hearing at the Gouin Courthouse, Desjardins expressed no objection to having his sentence hearing pushed back to Dec. 19, even though he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit the murder of Salvatore (Sal the Iron Worker) Montagna more than a year ago. Montagna was killed weeks after someone made an attempt on Desjardins’s life in Laval. Desjardins immediately suspected Montagna. The two men had been partners for several months in an attempt to take control of the Montreal Mafia away from the Rizzuto organization, but their alliance fell apart early in 2011. |  Desjardins used to be a right-hand man to Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto. |
 | Six men pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of taking part in the conspiracy to murder Montagna. Vittorio Mirarchi (38); Jack Simpson (73); Calogero Milioto (44); Pietro Magistrale (64); Steven Fracas (31); and Steven D’Addario (38) — admitted their role in the conspiracy to kill Montagna, who was shot dead on November 24, 2011. Their sentencing is scheduled to be held late in October. |  Vito Rizzuto |
 Jack Simpson |  Calogero Milioto |  Steven Fracas |  Pietro Magistrale |  Felice Racaniello |
 | Desjardins pleaded guilty on July 6, 2015, to being part of the conspiracy to kill Montagna. Since then five dates, including the one held Wednesday, have been set in the sentencing stage of his case. Every day that Desjardins serves while awaiting the outcome of his trial counts as 1.5 days. He was arrested and initially charged with Montagna’s murder on Dec. 20, 2011. So when he is eventually sentenced and his time served factored in, he will already have served at least the equivalent of a seven-and-a-half-year prison term. | Jack Arthur Simpson |
 | The morning that Salvatore Montagna was shot three times and died on a river bank outside Montreal, Raynald Desjardins was having breakfast elsewhere in town with his daughter and chatting about her wedding photo album. Shortly after the killing, Desjardins sent a Blackberry message to his associate, Vittorio Mirarchi: “Done.” “Perfect,” came the reply. Police who were wiretapping Desjardin’s mobile phone immediately knew who was behind the 2011 murder. | Vittorio Mirarchi |
 Leonardo Rizzuto | Testimony from an unnamed witness will be part of the preliminary inquiry in Project Mastiff, a lengthy drug trafficking investigation into Leonardo Rizzuto, 47, and Stefano Sollecito, 48, alleged Mafia leaders who were arrested along with 46 other people last November. Publication bans on photos of informants have been routine, but preventing the publication of an informant’s name is a rare step. All of the people charged in Project Mastiff already know the man’s name. |  Stefano Sollecito |
 Loris Cavaliere | Rizzuto, the son of now-deceased Mob boss Vito Rizzuto, was denied bail months ago and sat among several other accused in a prisoner’s dock designed to seat dozens. Sollecito, who was granted bail and is suffering from cancer, was not present for the hearing. Also not present was lawyer Loris Cavaliere. His lawyer, Martin Subak, informed Fafard that Cavaliere, 62, intends to renounce his right to be part of the preliminary inquiry. The defence lawyer is charged with participating in the activities of a criminal organization, cocaine trafficking and conspiracy to traffic in cocaine. Another person who asked for permission to attend only part of the preliminary inquiry was Alexandra Mongeau, 26, the daughter of Maurice (Mom) Boucher. |  Alexandra Mongeau |
 Maurice (Mom) Boucher | Project Mastiff uncovered a plot to murder Raynald Desjardins, 62, a longtime associate of Vito Rizzuto. Desjardins is awaiting his sentence after pleading guilty to taking part in a plot to murder Salvatore Montagna, who was a leading member of a group that tried to take control of the Mafia in Montreal until he was killed on Nov. 24, 2011. Maurice (Mom) Boucher who is serving a life sentence at a penitentiary in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines, is alleged to have issued the order to kill Desjardins. Boucher used his pregnant daughter, Alexandra Mongeau, to relay messages to Gregory Woolley, 43, a former underling in the Hells Angels who acted as Boucher’s bodyguard during the 1990s. Woolley is alleged to have been the key man in the alliance of organized crime groups uncovered by Project Magot and Mastiff. The conspiracy to murder Desjardins began in July and ended on Nov. 9. |  Gregory Woolley |
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 | Vincenzo Falduto and his 23-year-old brother Giuseppe went missing on June 30. There has been no trace of the brothers since. They had ties to Marco Pizzi, 46, an influential figure within the Montreal Mafia who was arrested on May 11 in an RCMP-led drug-trafficking investigation dubbed Project Clemenza. The Liana café located at 7310, boulevard Maurice-Duplessis was recently damaged by a Molotov cocktail. It was controlled - at least until recently - by Marco Pizzi. On August 3 it was reported that Marco Pizzi was seemingly the target of a failed mafia hit. |  |
 Vincenzo Falduto | Vincenzo Falduto and his 23-year-old brother Giuseppe went missing on June 30, 2016. Montreal police believe they were together at the time. The brothers had ties to Marco Pizzi, 46, an influential figure within the Montreal Mafia who was arrested May 11 in an RCMP-led drug-trafficking investigation dubbed Project Clemenza. Vincenzo Falduto was recently released from a federal penitentiary to a halfway house. He had received a three-year sentence for illegal possession of two handguns. Falduto believed a Reds, or Bloods-affiliated street gang wanted to kill him. |  Giuseppe Falduto |
 Marco Pizzi | Marco Pizzi is closely linked to the Rizzuto organization. In 2005, Marco Pizzi held enough sway that he could walk into the Consenza Social Club, the organization’s former headquarters in St-Léonard and hold a meeting with its top leaders. The RCMP had cameras and microphones hidden inside the café as part of Project Colisée when, on Dec. 13, 2005, Pizzi had a long conversation with Francesco Del Balso, 46, and Rocco Sollecito, 67. Sollecito was recently killed and Francesco 'chit' Del Balso was returned to prison for his own safety. |  Francesco 'chit' Del Balso |
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 | Gordon Baird, 59, admitted he was the administrator of the Platinum Sports Book, a sophisticated betting operation in Ontario that set up its servers in Costa Rica. Platinum employed hundreds of bookies servicing thousands of clients within the Toronto area. The bookies signed up their own clients, collected their debts and paid out their winnings on a weekly basis. The money flowed up the pyramid, court heard, with the top acting as “the bank.” |  |
 | A financial audit of seized betting records show that between 2009 and 2013 Platinum grossed more than $103 million. Police seized $4.6 million in cash during its probe. In 2012, $1.3 million in cash was found in the backpack of Erwin Speckert as he boarded a bus from Winnipeg to Vancouver. The source of the money was Platinum. Speckert was sentenced last year to three years for money laundering. |  |
 | The day after the police Super Bowl raid and the seizing of Platinum’s websites, identical websites were already back up, with the domain name switching from a .com address to a .tk address — signifying registration in Tokelau, three tiny coral atolls in the South Pacific. Police confirmed that Baird had registered the websites. Judge John McMahon accepted Baird’s guilty plea to a charge of bookmaking as participation in a criminal organization. Because Baird had no criminal record and pleaded guilty before trial, McMahon accepted a joint submission for an 18-month conditional sentence (to be served in Baird’s home) and a $400,000 fine. Baird handed over $50,000 and was given a year to pay the remainder. |
 Rob Barletta | In another courtroom in the same Toronto courthouse, two co-accused in the case — Rob Barletta and Andrew Bielli, both linked to the Hells Angels pleaded not guilty to charges including bookmaking for the benefit of a criminal organization and possession of the proceeds of crime. Among the accused is William “Billy” Miller, a former chapter president of the Hells Angels. Also charged were: Martin Spruce, David Hair, Arno Thomsen, and Shlomo Buchler. Police consider Miller, Hair and Spruce to be the leaders. |  William “Billy” Miller |
 | Vito Rizzuto made a serious effort to find the man suspected of killing his eldest son and wanted him captured alive to make him suffer, recently released court documents allege. Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto was incarcerated in the U.S. in December 2009 when his son Nick (The Ritz) Rizzuto was killed. Ducarme Joseph was informed by a police detective on Sept. 9, 2009 that there was a contract on his life. At one point it was alleged multiple teams of hired killers were looking for Joseph. |  Nick (The Ritz) Rizzuto |
 Ducarme (Kenny) Joseph | For years, police sources had described Ducarme (Kenny) Joseph as a suspect in the murder. Joseph — also known as Kenny, Ducarmel and King Kenny — cheated death for years as leader of Montreal’s 67s street gang, but his luck ran out when he was gunned down just around the corner from his mother’s home on August 1, 2014. The motive behind Nick Rizzuto’s murder has never been made clear, although many speculate it was ultimately the hand of Bonanno Boss Salvatore 'the ironworker' Montagna along with Joe Di Maulo and Raynald Desjardins. Joseph was also the prime suspect in the murder of Frederico Del Peschio, a close associate of Vito Rizzuto’s who was gunned down near his restaurant in Montreal on Aug. 21, 2009. |  |
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 Leonardo Rizzuto with Loris Cavaliere | The allegations are contained in an affidavit prepared to obtain search warrants last year in Projects Magot and Mastiff, two Sûreté du Québec-led investigations that produced the arrests of nearly 50 people on Nov. 19, including alleged Mafia leaders Leonardo Rizzuto, 47, and Stefano Sollecito, 48. Salvatore Cazzetta, 61, leader of the Hells Angels in Quebec, was also charged in the investigation in November and, in July, the SQ arrested André (Frisé) Sauvageau, 60, another senior member. |  André (Frisé) Sauvageau |
 Nicolo Rizzuto Sr. with his defence lawyer Loris Cavalière | When Louis Cavaliere was arrested in November, the SQ alleged his law offices on St. Laurent Blvd in Little Italy were used for multiple meetings between organized crime figures. But according to information contained in the affidavit, Cavaliere was involved in drug-trafficking along with his clients. Cavailiere was linked to Hasan Eroglu, a close friend of Lorenzo Giordano, who was known to police as the leader of the K-Crew, a group that specialized in selling heroin in Montreal. The K-Crew were involved in a conflict with the Hells Angels about a decade ago. Eroglu was fatally shot, on July 5, 2007. The homicide remains unsolved. |  |
 | Another informant who was being handled by two Montreal police detectives described a meeting between Cavaliere and Arsene (Big Mouth) Mompoint, 42, a member of the Bo-Gars. Cavaliere, 62, was part of the roundup in November, but unlike many of the accused, he was granted a conditional release on Dec. 4. One of the conditions he agreed to prevents him from practising as a lawyer while his case is pending. The preliminary inquiry in Cavaliere’s case is scheduled to begin on Oct. 5. Montreal police say mafia, Hells Angels, and street gangs formed an alliance to control drug trade, and it appears this could not have happened without Loris Cavaliere. “All the crucial decisions were made in his office,” Sûreté du Québec Chief Inspector Patrick Bélanger said. |
 | On August 3 it was reported that alleged Montreal mafioso Marco Pizzi was seemingly the target of a failed mafia hit. According to the report, Marco Pizzi was followed by masked and armed hitmen in a stolen car that collided with him at an intersection in Montreal in an attempt to get Pizzi out of his car. As he exited his car the hitmen drew their weapons but Pizzi was able to flee on foot escaping without any shots being fired. The masked suspects also fled leaving police with only a minimal description. The leadership table is believed to be out of control after the arrests of alleged mob bosses Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito and the murders of influential leaders Lorenzo Giordano in March and Rocco Sollecito in May. The old guard of the Rizzuto family and those close to it are being pushed out by a new faction. It remains a mystery as to who exactly are behind these attacks and who will take control of the mafia in Montreal. |
 | Pizzi is a suspected cocaine importer with close ties to the Rizzuto crime family. Pizzi was arrested in May along with other members of the Montreal mafia as part of an extensive drug operation by the RCMP. He was accused of gangsterism, cocaine importation, and conspiracy to traffic cocaine. Also arrested among others was co-defendant Liborio “Pancho” Cuntrera the son of deceased Rizzuto family leader Agostino Cuntrera. Pancho Cuntrera was considered to be part of the Montreal mafia leadership table that took control of the Rizzuto family after the death of Vito Rizzuto. |  Liborio “Pancho” Cuntrera |
 | Pizze had close ties to Montreal mobster Tonino Callocchia a Rizzuto family ally who was murdered in 2014.  Francesco Arcadi |
 |  Francesco 'Chit' Del Balso |
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