 | Mafia heavyweight Nicola Spagnolo, 51, automatically qualified for release on the federal sentence he received for stabbing a man in Old Montreal last year, but he remained behind bars because of his arrest as a result of Frédérick Silva. Spagnolo appeared by video conference at the Montreal courthouse where he was charged with the first-degree murder of Lorenzo LoPresti, who was killed in St-Laurent on Oct. 24, 2011. Spagnolo left the federal prison system, presumably to be incarcerated again in the provincial system, awaiting trial for murder. |  |
 | Spagnolo was sentenced to 3 years in jail after being found guilty of aggravated assault in December 2022. The bar stabbing had nothing to do with organized crime. Spagnolo was drunk. He described himself as a seller of used luxury cars. The crown said the attack was “vicious, underhanded and cowardly”. |  Spagnolo is management in the Montreal mafia. |
 | Nicola Spagnolo was found guilty of aggravated assault in a stabbing outside a bar in Old Montreal. Video from the Boho Bar sunk him. He faced a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. The victim testified he didn't know Spagnolo before they began arguing after leaving the Boho bar. He said they were both drunk. The victim described his assailant as "un vieux crisse de riche" (rich old man) |
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Spagnolo is a member of the Montreal mafia's executive with Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito. Project Alliance lassoed all 3 men. |  |
