Montreal mafia lawyer Loris Cavaliere linked to HA, street gangs - flashback 2016

It is July 2016.

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. HA Salvatore Cazzetta, 61, was charged in the investigation and the SQ arrested André (Frisé) Sauvageau, 60. He died in 2021.

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 also 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.

An 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. Montreal police say mafia, Hells Angels, and street gangs formed an alliance to control drug trade, and it all could not have happened without Loris Cavaliere. “All the crucial decisions were made in his office,” Sûreté du Québec Chief Inspector Patrick Bélanger said.

Loris Cavaliere was sentenced to 34 months after he pleaded guilty to gangsterism. He became the first lawyer in Quebec to plead guilty to the criminal charge of gangsterism. He was granted full parole after serving one third of his sentence in minimum security. Cavaliere's mobster clients were all acquitted after tapes made in the lawyer's office were tossed.

Now 68, former mafia lawyer Loris Cavaliere has not hit the news since.

NZ Black power gangster and enforcer scuttles parole

Whanganui Black Power sergeant at arms Gordon Anthony Runga appeared set for release after being sentenced to seven years for being part of a Black Power gang that gunned down Kevin Ratana, a father of two, in 2018. Runga told the board he had spoken to the chapter’s president about “his need to step down from the gang to focus on his whānau. (Whānau is the Māori word for extended family) and was told he could leave without fear of anyone coming after him." That was revealed as bullshit as after he was moved into minimum security he tried to bolt by scaling a fence. In June four months were tacked on to Runga’ sentence after he pleaded guilty. He's back in maximum security and a 'role model' according to his fans.

Gangster emus spotted in Prince George

In 2021 residents of Prince George were on the hunt for a rouge emu named Dora the Explorer. Corralled at the airport the bird was returned to its owner. It escaped again instantly. Posts on Facebook regularly detail encounters with Prince George’s gangster bird since. We can now say birds, and they are tough enough to survive without help from dumb humans.

An escaped emu in Tennessee led cops on a 20-mile chase this spring after it got spooked and jumped its 7-foot fence. In that case the athletic perp led cops on a 20 mile high speed chase at speeds approaching 35 mph.

Oz lawyer Sevag Chalabian sentenced to 12 years

Australian justice finally caught up with one of the country's most crooked lawyers. Sevag Chalabian laundered millions for organized crime groups and now joins some of his ex-clients, including former MP Eddie Obeid, behind bars. Chalabian, 52, bought 12 years, with seven-and-a-half years non-parole, for a single count of money laundering. He used his solicitor’s trust account to launder $24m that he knew was the proceeds of crime. Chalabian was a key cog in the nation’s biggest tax fraud, the Plutus Payroll saga. The Plutus Payroll fraud cheated the state out of more than $100m. For a handsome cut, the lawyer was happy to wash the dirty money.

The day before his firm was raided, Chalabian transferred $880k in loot to Hong Kong. The cash went to KSE Property, with the sole director and shareholder being his 85 year-old mother Sosi. Chalabian’s mother, who speaks limited English, knew nothing about any payment. “How do I know? You ask my son,” she said. “I no see him much.” Among others implicated, Huang Xiangmo is a Chinese property developer who used Chalabian to channel $11m to a secret beneficiary. Reclusive mining promoter Mick "Many Names" Shemesian had business links to Chalabian. Chalabian was involved in dozens of Shemesian's companies.

Lawyer Dev Menon, 39, was recorded telling his co-horts theirs was 'the biggest tax fraud in Australia's history'. He was jailed for at least nine years. 'It would be the biggest tax fraud in Australia's history, definitely, there is no question,' Menon was covertly recorded telling conspiracy ringleader Adam Cranston. The Plutus Payroll fraud collected money from legitimate clients and funnelled it through a web of second-tier companies instead of paying it to the tax office, siphoning off at least $105m between 2014 and 2017.

Earth shatters heat records

Tuesday was the hottest day on Earth since at least 1979, with the global average temperature reaching 62.92 degrees F. (17.18 C) July 4 may have been one of the hottest days on Earth in about 125,000 years. The last time the record was broken was on Monday, when the temperature was 62.62 degrees Fahrenheit. “It’s warming 0.25 degrees Celsius a decade,” one expert said. “That’s why we see records broken continuously, rather than just as one-offs.” Scientists are expecting more days of record-breaking heat due to the return of El Niño. The sharp jump in temperatures has unsettled even the professional scientists who have been tracking climate change. The UN secretary general said that “climate change is out of control”.

Car theft in GTA out of control - gone in 90 seconds

A crew is formed. The primary can make $3k to $5k per car, the break-in man makes from $500-1,000, key fob expert $1,200 and the getaway driver about $500. Following the theft, vehicles are usually taken to a "cooling off area" where the group looks for GPS trackers. Criminals send pictures of the vehicle and its VIN number to the customer who ordered the vehicle and money is wired back. 3 cars are put into shipping containers which are shipped overseas. CBSA checks far less than 1% of outbound containers which number between 5k to 15k per day.

The province says that in Ontario a car is stolen every 48 minutes. At least 32 cars have been stolen in Toronto each day in 2023. From Nov 2022 to April 11, 2023, cops charged 119 and recovered 556 vehicles stolen in the GTA. The vehicles have a combined value over $27m. The resale value overseas is high and it's a lucrative business. Penalties for getting busted are laughably light. The amount of money being made, according to cops, would make the GTA’s top pimps, drug dealers and gun smugglers blush.

In Toronto alone, there were 9,606 vehicle thefts in 2022. That's triple the amount of thefts in 2015. Following another 14% increase in 2023 Ontario is spending $51 million over three years to try to fight auto theft. Money is set to go toward creating an organized crime and auto theft team led by the OPP. The government is creating a major auto theft prosecution team to provide dedicated legal and prosecution support.

See ----->$10m in stolen cars recovered in latest GTA bust

Cops warn public to stay away from Surrey chitbags

Karnvir Garcha, Harkirat Jhutty

Karnvir Singh Garcha, 25, was found fatally shot on Sunday. Cops warned the public in December. Surrey RCMP and the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit issued the unusual warning due to “a significant threat to the public posed by these individuals through their connection to criminal activity and high levels of violence. Police believe that anyone connected to or in proximity to them may be putting themselves at risk.” Stay the hell away from Karnvir Garcha, 24, and Harkirat Jhutty, 22. Cops are warning any family, friends, associates and the public to avoid any interaction with the two thugs.

Killers of Frantz Louis guilty - revisited

Emanuell Roberts Hunte, 24, and Andrew Thomas Labrèche, 25 were found guilty of the murder of Frantz Louis, a man with close ties to organized crime who was gunned down inside his car in Villeray November 19, 2020. Both are guilty of first-degree murder with no parole for 25 years. Louis was shot six times at point-blank range in the head and upper body. Labrèche was the getaway driver; Emanuell Roberts Hunte was the shooter. A few months before Louis was killed, he was charged along with three others in Project Abus, a Montreal police investigation into extortion and loansharking.

Charles Odner, Dantes Hulbens, Louis Frantz and Carlos Rodriguez.

Frantz Louis, with Dantes Hubens, 'Doggy D', worked as debt collectors. Louis had ties to Atna Ohna, '2-Pac'. He and Ohna were observed by cops meeting with Gilles Lambert and François Vachon, Montreal HA, as well as Joseph Chamai, the former right hand man of Andrea Scoppa.

Emanuell Roberts Hunte

Frantz Louis and mafia strongman Davide Barberio were closely linked. A mafia loansharking and extortion bust in 2014 led directly to Frantz Louis.

Andrew Thomas Labrèche

Gangster X-class solar flare slams earth - 2 punch CME on the way

A giant solar flare exploded on Sunday, July 2, creating a powerful stream that lashed Earth's atmosphere and caused a radio blackout over parts of the U.S. and the Pacific ocean. The solar flare erupted from the sunspot AR3354 which is seven times the width of the Earth. Flares are grouped according to their strength, with the smallest flares called B-flares, which are followed by C-flares, then M-flares. The strongest class of solar flares are X-flares. Two solar storms, or coronal mass ejections (CMEs), are on the way. NASA has projected that the first massive ejection of ionized gas will impact Earth by Friday (July 7).

Romanian crime groups plunder public benefits in San Diego

Bulk purchases of Red Bull and Monster Energy drinks were large. In late 2020, a group spent over $300k buying pallets of the product at grocery stores in downtown San Diego and Riverside. The group made arrangements with store managers to pick up the drinks. They resold them — and the profit would be huge, since they didn't pay for it. Money was pilfered from low-income public benefits recipients. Romanians are targeting state-issued cards loaded with EBT and unemployment benefits.

Experts at cloning debit and credit cards, state-issued benefit cards are more vulnerable since they lack the chips embedded on bank-issued debit and credit cards. Romanian criminals found a niche skimming ATMs and card readers. Skimmers targeting EBT cards were discovered last year at three Walmart stores in San Diego and the South Bay. Romanians began operating in San Diego at least as early as March 2022.

Hitman Gérald Gallant - Canada's most prolific killer

Gérald Gallant's hallmark was to kill with shots to the head, neck and chest.

Gérald Gallant is 5'-8" with a thin frame and a stutter. The unassuming hit man admitted killing 29, including a bystander, between 1978 and 2003, making him the most prolific assassin in Canadian history.

Gallant killed often through the ’80s and ’90s, with Desfosses paying $10k per hit.

A young Gallant worked for West-End Gang kingpin Raymond Desfosses, who gave him his first contract in 1980. He didn’t hesitate to kill anyone, but he had standards. Desfosses hired him to kill Gilles Cote in 1985. "I saw that he had a little kid next him," Gallant said. "(My partner) got ready to shoot. I told him ‘whoa, whoa! He has a little kid, you understand me? We never do that!'

We’ll come back tomorrow!’ Gallant was true to his word and Cote was riddled with bullets the next day.

Gallant confessed and named names, putting away 11 gangsters.

Work was plentiful by 1997, with the biker war pitting the Hells Angels against the Rock Machine. In 1998 he eliminated five, including Paul Cotroni Jr., son of deposed mob boss Frank Cotroni. The 2000 murder of Bob Savard, right-hand man to HA boss Maurice "Mom" Boucher, was a sign Gallant’s nerve was cracking. His associate and two bystanders were injured in a hail of gunfire. Gallant killed two more between 2000 and 2003, and hatched a failed plot to kill Boucher. Gallant killed the wrong man during a hit in Ste-Adele in 2001 and left behind DNA evidence. It was the end. In 2008, Gallant received 48 life sentences for murder and attempted murder.

He won’t be eligible for parole until 2033, by which time he will be 83 years old.

Brazil battles PCC in Amazon

Brazil’s battle to reclaim land from illegal miners turned deadly after 5 were killed in violence in the Amazon’s Yanomami territory. The bloodshed began when masked miners launched an attack on a Yanomami village called Uxiu.

Four miners were killed as special forces raided a cassiterite and gold field called 'Garimpo do Ouro Mil'.

The arrival of federal forces prompted gun battles. The camp belongs to be the First Capital Command (PCC) – a São Paulo prison gang that has grown to become one of South America’s most powerful gangs.Illegal miners have devastated the Yanomami territory, causing Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to call it 'an attempted genocide'.

Cops say there were up to 20,000 miners in the Yanomami lands, but many left after raids on 327 mining camps and destruction of 18 planes and two helicopters.

Gangsters use a fleet of helicopters to supply the mines – and smuggle out gold and cassiterite. Cops say the complete closure of Yanomami airspace to such aircraft is critical to stopping the mining.

7,000 pounds of cocaine lassoed by Mexican Navy

The Mexican navy intercepted a submersible in the Pacific which was carrying 7,000 pounds of cocaine. 5 people aboard the vessel were arrested.

Vancouver man who opened hard drug store dies of overdose

In May, Jerry Martin opened 'The Drugs Store' out of a mobile trailer in the heart of the Downtown Eastside and sold drugs such as cocaine, heroin and meth that were advertised as clean with no impurities. Cops shut him down the next day. Martin was found unconscious several days ago and hospitalized. After his brain failed to register any activity, his family took him off life support. Its thought he died from a fentanyl overdose.