Nicola Spagnolo - 'un vieux crisse de rich'

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.

The marquee trial targeting top leadership of the Rizzuto crime family begins November 16, 2026.

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)

Spagnolo is a member of the Montreal mafia's executive with Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito. Project Alliance lassoed all 3 men.

See ----->Project Alliance

Leonardo Rizzuto, mafia boss, among 11 arrested for murder - Project Alliance

Cops in Quebec have arrested 11, including Montreal mafia boss Leonardo Rizzuto, in a sweeping operation targeting organized crime across the province. Police were deployed across the cities of Montreal, Laval, Blainville, Shefford, St-Lazare, Repentigny, Quebec City and Rosemère. It all has to do with the contract killer turned rat, Frédérick Silva, who has been collaborating since 2022. The hammer FINALLY fell and all 11 men pleaded not guilty to charges of either first degree murder or conspiracy to commit murder.

See ----->Frédérick Silva

Nailed are top names of organized crime in Quebec; Leonardo RIZZUTO, 56, Nicola SPAGNOLO, 50, Davide BARBERIO, 45 Michel CLICHE, 54, Pietro D’ADAMO, 54, Patrick GILBERT, 51, Daniele GUARNA, 45, Richard LARIVIÈRE, 57, Darius PERRY, 27, Vito SALVAGGIO, 50, Stefano SOLLECITO, 57, Wanted are: Sacha KROLIK, 56, Pierry PHILOGÈNE, 38, Mario SOLLECITO, 54, Gianpietro TIBERIO, 52, and Jean-Ismel ZÉPHIR, 46.

See ----->HA Jean-Richard Larivière