Dying Kelowna man fingers Jason Michael Holm as killer - update

Jason Michael Holm admitted his guilt to cops a short time after his arrest and blamed voices in his head. Court heard Paul Samuel Whitten was stabbed 49 times.

Jason Michael Holm

As he lay dying, a bloodied Kamloops father pointed the finger at his neighbour, telling a cop “Jason did it.” Jason Michael Holm’s first-degree murder trial got underway in Kelowna. He is accused of killing Paul Samuel Whitten, who was stabbed to death on Aug. 2, 2020. RCMP Const. Carolyn Braun broke down describing the bloody crime scene. She described large gashes on Whitten's chest, back and arms. “Blood was everywhere — all over him, all over the walkway,” she said. “He was asking for help. You could see in his face, he was begging for help." She approached the dying man and asked him his name. “He told me Paul,” she said. “I asked, ‘Paul, who did this?’ He said, ‘Jason did it.’”

Anthony 'Tony Pro' Provenzano

Anthony 'Tony Pro' Provenzano

Anthony Provenzano was born in New York in 1917. By the 1950s, he was president of the Teamsters Local 560, New Jersey, and vice-president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He was also a made member of the Genovese crime family. Provenzano and Jimmy Hoffa were allies for years, stealing union funds. Provenzano went to prison in 1963 for extortion, and Hoffa went to prison in 1967 for bribery and fraud. The former lost his union pension while Hoffa kept his. They reportedly came across each other by chance at an airport, and Hoffa is said to have broken a bottle over Provenzano’s head, while the mobster told the union boss that he would "rip his guts out with his bare hands and kill his grandchildren." In 1975, Hoffa disappeared. He had been in Detroit for a meeting with Provenzano and mobster Anthony Giacalone, but they never showed up. That crime remains unsolved.

In 1978, he was convicted of ordering the 1961 murder of Anthony Castellito. He was sentenced to 25 years. A month later Provenzano was also sentenced to four years for arranging kickbacks on a $2.3m pension loan. A year after that, he was also convicted on labor racketeering charges, which landed him another 20-year prison term.

Provenzano died of a heart attack at Lompoc Federal Penitentiary, aged 71 in 1988.

Kelowna RCMP Const. Siggy Pietrzak in the pig pen - update

Const. Siggy Pietrzak was recently found not guilty in a high-profile assault trial. He was disciplined for running afoul of the RCMP Code of Conduct however. He loses 20 days pay and stands to be transferred after “discrediting the force”.

Tyler Russell was on the receiving end of at least 10 punches from Const. Siggy Pietrzak while he was held by two other cops. A notice of civil claim outlines six causes of action against Siggy 'Piggy' Pietrzak, the B.C. Minister of Justice and AG of Canada.

Cops say ... “During the arrest, the man actively resisted and allegedly turned combative toward the RCMP officers, who requested immediate backup.” It wasn't Pietrzak's first complaint and it was his sister who ratted him out. "My brother is the one that flew out of the vehicle and started throwing punches," she said in an email. "That’s who my brother is." The Kelowna RCMP has had a long string of incidents.

Ontario bureaucrat Sanjay Madan $47m fraud = 10 years

Sanjay Madan has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple charges of fraud, breach of trust and money laundering. Madan was fired in Nov 2020 from his $176k job as director of the Ministry of Education’s iAccess Solutions Branch after his fraud surfaced. He owns Newgen Ventures Inc. a company registered in Panama that owns millions in real estate, all of which was listed for sale. His assets include a seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom house in North York, six Toronto condominiums, and more than $1m from the sale of another home. Madan holds Canadian and Indian passports as well as permanent residency status in Panama, a tax haven with no extradition treaty with Canada. His lawyer claimed he had mental issues.

Sons of Sanjay Madan sued Ontario for $1m in “psychological” damages. Chinmaya Madan, 27, and Ujjawal Madan, 24, claim the government’s “allegation of conspiracy” against them is “preposterous” and “has been advanced recklessly and maliciously.” Chinmaya Madan was a product manager who resigned in July 2020 while brother Ujjawal Madan worked under their father.

The province says some or all of Madan, his spouse, Shalini, their sons, and Madan’s associate Vidhan Singh perpetrated a massive fraud exceeding $21m. Sanjay Madan received $10m in secret commissions for steering government contracts to companies he or Vidhan Singh controlled. Madan and his family opened more than 400 accounts at the Bank of Montreal. They deposited more than 10,000 cheques made out to fictitious people with non-existent children under the Covid support program. In a statement of defence Madan blames the province for lax security that allowed “widespread misappropriation” of taxpayer funds.

Bikie Jason Kemp’s death 'not suspicious'

Bikie Jason Kemp was found floating face down in the pool at his private villa at The Pearle of Cable Beach in Broome, Western Australia, on February 11 after a long life of crime. He was the mystery gunman who shot up Dayne Brajkovich's home two years earlier. Kemp fired six shots into Brajkovich's Holden Commodore in March 2021, while his wife and seven-year-old son were inside. No one was hurt. The shooting was in retaliation for Brajkovich bashing Rebels boss Nick Martin at a pub in November 2020.

UK gangsters put £250k bounty on head of child killer Thomas Cashman

The killer of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, 9, has a £250k bounty on his head by criminals who want him silenced. Thomas Cashman, 34, will be sentenced for killing the girl in Liverpool. He has been made the target of a hit over fears he could cooperate with cops. Cashman is seen as a rat, willing to hand over information on his 2 unsolved gangland murders in exchange for better conditions during his sentence. "He knows everything about everyone. The figure is £250,000 to kill him," a source said. The hitman and drug dealer was found guilty of the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, the attempted murder of intended target Joseph Nee, and the wounding of Cheryl Korbel.

Disgraced lawyer Faiyaz Ahmad Dean banned from securities in B.C.

Faiyaz Ahmad Dean was a B.C. lawyer when he got involved in the stock fraud business. Dean was busted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2018 for assisting a pump-and-dump stock fraud involving a company called Biozoom Inc. The scam involved $34m in proceeds. Dean also faces criminal charges in the U.S. related to Biozoom. In its decision in B.C., a securities commission panel noted that Dean’s misconduct was extremely serious. The K9 continues to be 'a serious risk to investors and British Columbia’s capital markets.' Faiyaz Dean was connected to Vancouver securities lawyer Penny Green of Bacchus Law.

Pro-Putin blogger Vladlen Tatarsky whacked

Vladlen Tatarsky died when a blast tore through the cafe where he was appearing as a guest of a pro-war group. Tatarsky was killed by a device hidden in a figurine presented to him by a woman before the blast.

Tatarsky is the pen name for Maxim Fomin, who had accumulated more than 560,000 followers on Telegram. A St Petersburg website said the explosion took place at a cafe that once belonged to Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group.

Cops raid top Quebec Hells Angels - update

Mafioso Francesco 'Chit' Del Balso was visited by cops in relation to the attempted hit on Leonardo Rizzuto. Del Balso was released after a few hours. He was forced to hand over his passport to the SQ. There are no charges.

The bikers were raided in relation to a cocaine ring.

Eight raids were conducted in Montreal, Laval and Estérel. Cops paid a visit to the homes of Michel Lamontagne, Stéphane Plouffe, and Martin Robert in a cocaine investigation. Robert, 48, is considered to be among the most influential Hells Angels in Quebec. He holds the rare 'World' HA status. Mafioso Francesco 'Chit' Del Balso is also said to be a target of the investigation.

Stéphane Plouffe

Two tonnes of cocaine landed in Dominican Republic

Dominican anti-narcotics agents have seized more than two tonnes of cocaine stashed in a shipment of bananas en route from Ecuador to the Netherlands. It is the largest seizure ever of cocaine in the Dominican Republic.