Showing posts with label Rizzuto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rizzuto. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Raynald Desjardins charged with the murder of Mafiaso Salvatore Montagna



Raynald Desjardins, of Laval, is expected to be charged with five others with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Salvatore Montagna. Desjardins served 10 years of a 15-year prison term, from 1993 to 2004, for conspiring with the Hells Angels to smuggle more than 5,000 kilograms of cocaine into Canada.

Those arrested in Montagna's murder included senior figures in the Montreal mafia - as well as those with links to the Hells Angels, the outlaw biker gang that is heavily involved in organized crime and drug trafficking in Quebec, sources told the New York Post.

Remember the Death Riders take over in Laval? May 4, 1987 the President of the Death Riders, Martin Huneault, was shot to death in a Laval bar. No one was ever arrested for the murder, but just hours after Huneault's funeral, Death Riders Mario Martin and André Richard were seen meeting with Hells Angels Maurice "Mom" Boucher and Normand "Biff" Hamel. Boucher and Hamel received their colours after the incident and Huneault's murder allowed the Hells Angels to completely take over drug trafficking in Laval and the lower Laurentians area.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Hells Angels and the Mob



Well the Christmas murders are continuing across the country like popcorn on a stove without a lid. Mafia Today, Radio-Canada and the Montreal Gazette are reporting that Antonio Pietrantonio – also known across the Montreal Mafia as Tony Suzuki – is the man shot and severely wounded outside a Jarry St. E. restaurant Tuesday night.

It now resembles a hit list – the names of a trio police sources say were major players in an attempt to reach a consensus over who should assume control over the Mafia in Montreal. Montreal businessman Antonio (Tony Suzuki) Pietrantonio is the latest target in a series of shootings that began in September.

Pietrantonio was arrested in 1993 after an RCMP investigation into a plot hatched by the Hells Angels and the Mafia to smuggle cocaine into Canada. In that instance, he was sentenced to a three-year prison term. Again we see the Hells Angels in business with the mob. Since the Hells Angels betray everyone they do business with it is not a stretch of the imagination to think they are involved in the Rizzuto murders. I think my Christmas Epiphany has merit.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

A New York Minute



Have you ever heard the term a New York Minute? I spent time in New York in the late 80's. Rockin the A train to 155th Street. Then later on chillin on the Deuce. I became familiar with the term. They say New York is the city that never sleeps. Things are happening 24/7. Then all of a sudden, in a New york minute everything can happen at once. This week has been a New York minute. Incredibly busy at work, home, Internet, computer crash. Everything happened at once.

It all started with my Christmas Epiphany. Right when I was researching it, I had an intrusion attempt and a complete system crash. The timing was very suspicious. Now wait 'till I tell ye... I wasn't born yesterday. I've been doing this blog and web site for a while now. It all started because of the Surrey Six. A gang hit executed two innocent bystanders and a community was outraged. Chris Mohan's mother spoke at a rally against gang violence where they released doves in memory of lost loved ones. It was touching.

She made a public appeal for a web site to identify known gang members. She said they were living next door to gang members and they had no idea. All these murders we hear the victim was known to the police. If they are known to the police they should be known to the public. She had a good point. When she made the appeal I thought to myself, I could do that. I've gone up against enough corporate lawyers in my day.

So the web site was born. In the beginning I expressed my opinion that the Hells angels were ultimately responsible for the Surrey Six murder. That theory was met with rage and denial. Yet Larry Amero being shot while parading around Kelowna with Johnathon Bacon showed that I wasn't far off. The Independent Soldiers meeting with the Bacon brothers at the Castle fun Park in Kevlar before the hit was more evidence. Since then the evidence has been coming forward.

The point is, the Hells angels never claim responsibility when they murder someone. The accusation is always met with denial. When I say the Hells angels control the drug trade in a particular city, I am flooded with denial and threats. When I posted my opinion that the Hells angels were behind the Surrey House of Horrors, I was met with threats and accusations. They said I was talking about something that could get me killed. One poster was pretty hostile and claimed I was Anton thinking I had inside knowledge on the matter. Turned out I wasn't Anton but he did have inside knowledge on the matter.

Locally there have been another two shootings in 24 hours. The most recent of which was a mother executed with her toddler in the car. That is outrageous. Who would do that? We we know it's been done before locally.

A mother was shot dead with her toddler in the back seat in Surrey. Her husband was an associate of the UN and she was a personal friend of the guy who owned the condo where the Surrey Six murder had taken place. They hunted him down after the fact and killed him in a take over of the leadership of that gang. The old Red Scorpions were affiliated with the UN and had beef with the Haney Hells Angels. The new Red scorpions are Hells Angel puppets.

Who would shoot a mother in front of her toddler? Well in Surrey, it was Team Bacon Brothers who were empowered by the Hells Angels. Who would kill people during Christmas? Well in Vancouver 1995 it was the Hells Angels.

Before I recount Montreal, let me cite Grande Prairie. Recently, Grande Prairie had it's largest drug bust in it's history. A group called the Baseball team was involved. I have two independent sources that claim the Baseball Team work for the Hells angels. When I made that post on my blog, someone claiming to be from Grande Prairie said you know about Surrey but I know about Grande Prairie and the Hells Angels are no longer involved in the drug trade there. Well I personally find that hard to believe. They were just implicated in the city's largest cocaine bust.

Meanwhile that crazy lady from Grande Prairie who knows Shaun Thexton who was recently arrested in that Grande Prairie drug bust, is spamming my blog claiming she knows who I am and is threatening to post my home address all over the Internet and social media. Someone else is at the same time spamming me with threats about the Hells angels gang raping my daughter. These are deranged people making deranged threats. Obviously they are not directly affiliated. Yet the depravity is concerning.

I post my Christmas Epiphany and someone claiming to be from Montreal claims the Hells Angels are no longer involved in the Montreal drug trade. I gagged and said I beg to differ. Then another reader posted a link to a headline how after the recent police round up the Hells Angels are reorganizing in Montreal with four new puppet clubs.

Freddy, who is an informed contributor to the blog does not think the Hells angels are the ones responsible for knocking off the Rizzutos. Fair enough. I personally disagree. I think they are. Even this recent article which presents some theories admits the latest hit was very amateur. Shooting the Rizzuto patriarch through the window in front of his family was out of the norm for Italians as was fire bombing a funeral home. That was more someone a devil worshipping Hells Angel would do.

Freddy understandably claims that people don't want speculation, they just want the facts. Fair enough. Unfortunately I don't give a rat's ass what people want. Personally, it's like Ricky Nelson's song Garden Party. You can't please everyone, you've gotta please yourself. Not in a selfish way but in a Shakespearean to thine own self be true kind of way.

A journalist just writes the facts. A columnist would express an opinion. I however, am neither. I do express opinions and present theories. The scientific method starts off with a theory. It then conducts experiments to test the theory and records observations. In the literary world we start with a theory and seek out supporting documentation to prove or disprove the theory. Yes I do believe the Hells Angels are the ones killing the Rizzutos. The book the Sixth Family claims the Hells angels were working with the Rizzutos. The links I posted in my Christmas Epiphany show that the Hells angels were implicated in a Rizzuto clan kidnapping and extortion in 2005 and a subsequent retaliatory murder in 2006.

Obviously the Hells angels would deny it if they did it. They aren't like the French or the Irish who claim responsibility for what they do. They are like the English who historically betray in back rooms ever since Braveheart. Remember one of the opening scenes from the movie Braveheart? The wee lad walks into a barn where he sees his father and other leaders in the community hanged. The British King had invited them to a special meeting and had ambushed them and executed them. That is how the Hells Angels have done business in Canada ever since Lennoxville.

One final note. It's Christmas. Spend time with your family. I didn't create my web site and blog to be a real time debating team drama fest. No one is going to agree with everything I post. You may be right, I might be crazy. But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for. Yet during the holiday I want to steer away from the drama. I am reminded of Don Henley's song in a New York Minute.

That song was written long before 911. It starts off talking about a man who jumped in front of a subway train and committed suicide. It talks about how everything can change in a New York minute. All too true. These Christmas murders will not stop as long as we continue to enable the Hells angels violent control of the drug trade by denying their involvement. There will be no peace on earth while we do that. Prince George has just once again been named Canada's most dangerous city thanks to the Hells angels violent control of the drug trade there.

The trial for Britney Irving's murder has been set for January. There is no way Hells Angels associate Joey Verma acted alone in that case. The tragedies continue. Let's not forget Dain Philips either. To this end, let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. It may be painful and outrageous but ultimately it will be the truth that sets us free. Word.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Christmas Epiphany 2011



Well here it is. I'm going to post the Christmas Epiphany early this year because I have a ton of stuff to do and my computer is screwed. An epistle is a letter. An epiphany is an awakening. Buddhists say Nirvana. In Zen they say enlightenment. An epiphany isn't a full scale Nirvana or enlightenment. It's just a small step in that direction. A light goes on and after connecting the dots in two previously unrelated items things all of a sudden make sense.

When I first started this blog and web site people kept asking me what my hate is for the Hells Angels. By now they don't ask that any more because the Hells Angels violent control of the drug trade has become clear.

One thing is certain and that's the Rizzuto family are getting wiped off the planet by what appears to be non Italians. Most of the hits aren't following the norm. A sniper shooting the patriarch through the window in front of his family. Firebombing a funeral home where a funeral was to take place. That was abnormally disrespectful. That's something that neither the Italians or the French would do. They have more respect for the dead than that.

People ask me who I think is responsible and I say the Hells Angels to which they respond of course you do. Yet while combing through some English translations of some French news articles I had an Epiphany. It was at that time my computer had an intrusion attempt that crashed my whole system completely.

Speaking of talking about things I have no idea about, I'm going to mention the Italian Mafia in Canada. Since I'm from the West coat, I know next to nothing on the subject. I know the Italians use to have gill nets and wine with a small bonfire in Ambleside beach back in the day. No harm in that. Yet I went for lunch with an author from Montreal last month and he said what surprised him most was when the Rizzutos gave Mom Boucher the heroin trade way back when. I said the Rizzutos gave the Hells Angels the heroin trade in Montreal? and he said yes. They had to pay the Rizzutos a cut but the family let the Hells Angels take it over because it was easier for them to manage.

Well I said. That would kinda support my theory that it's the Hells Angels putting hits on the Rizzuto family simply because they don't want to pay them a cut any more. Now before you scoff and cry blasphemy, let's look at an interesting article in French from January 2007. Translated into English it claims:

A family of Granby has used threats and intimidation for two years to recover $900,000 with the leaders of the Rizzuto clan, learned the Royal Canadian Mounted Police during its investigation of the Sicilian Mafia. The conflict has almost degenerated into bloody war.

In a document of 131 pages to accompany requests for search warrants, the RCMP said the episode in detail, as the organization (the Rizzuto clan) is having a conflict with the D'Amico family of Granby.

In January 2004, the clan chief, Vito Rizzuto, was arrested at the request of the Americans who accuse him of being involved in a triple murder on behalf of the Bonanno family in New York. His lieutenant, Francesco Arcadi, takes the lace. A month later, Luigi D'Amico him phone the restaurant to his son, St. Charles La Trattoria, in Granby, to make an appointment.

At the end of the afternoon, the RCMP hidden cameras reveal the presence of Arcadi, Luigi d'Amico and his son Tiziano back in the office of the Consenza social club, which serves as the headquarters of the clan Rizzuto, Saint-Léonard. It is unclear what men have said. But in August 2005, Arcadi told a sidekick that "bikers" of Granby wanted to "cut off his head."

Halloween night, 2005 Nicola Varacalli from the Rizzuto clan is kidnapped. The police know who the kidnappers. But it seems that they have kidnapped Varacalli to send a message to the Rizzuto clan.

Negotiations continue with the kidnappers. RCMP captures a multitude of conversations. Thus, in the bar Laennec, another haunt of the Rizzuto clan in Laval, a henchman of Arcadi, Lorenzo Giordano, mentions the name Patrizio D'Amico, he associates the "frenchman" (Hells Angels). He suggested paying half a million now and $ 400 000 later, when Varacalli will be released. It has been said that D'Amico family of Granby is linked to the Hells Angels.

This article is in English: Montreal kingpins rattled by small-town gang. On Aug. 22, 2006, a scuffle outside a downtown restaurant between Mr. Del Balso and Hells Angels supporter Charles Huneault ended with the Mafia men opening fire on Mr. Huneault's Porsche.

When an underling urged him to cool off, Mr. Del Balso said: “So why does this guy (Mr. Huneault) have the honours of grabbing my throat?” A week later, the gang was flustered further when one member, Domenico Macri, was shot dead by two motorcyclists as he was motoring towards Mr. Arcadi's home.

This French article translated into English claims: The report, citing a New York journalist and confidential sources, shows that the decision to kill Rizzuto did not require approval of the Bonanno family in New York as many have suggested. The decision would come from Hamilton, Ontario where three Calabrian families share the power, Papalio the Luppino and Musitano.

These clans could ally with Calabrian already well established in Quebec, as Luigi D'Amico, of Granby, who would do business with the Hells Angels Sherbrooke and Francesco Del Balso, a specialist in money laundering.

Sources also assume that Francesco ACARD, a close Rizzuto might change sides. "Everything is possible, says John Galianos. We saw the Rock Machine to join the Hells Angels." (Must be referring to Mom Boucher's old friend Salvatore Cazzetta who crossed over to become the President of the Montreal Hells Angels)

To make a long story short, the kidnapping of Nicola Varacalli Halloween 2005 was pivotal. The Hells Angels were behind it. They were blackmailing the Rizzuto family. They said they were ready to cut off their head and were ready to bring them a war like in Iraq. That tension increased in 2006 with the retaliatory murders of Charles Huneault and Domenico Macri. Mon Dieu! I may be crazy but the Hells Angels are clearly at the root of our drug and organized crime violence in Canada.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Nicola Varacalli arrested



Speaking of Nicola Varacalli, well we haven't yet but we will get to him, he was recently arrested with three other men described by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as part of a “multimillion dollar drug operation” charged in the U.S., along with six other people, with conspiring to possess and distribute more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana. Most of the same people, including Varacalli, are also charged with transferring money made from marijuana trafficking back to Canada.

Nicola Varacalli was kidnapped and held against his will in 2005 for more than a month during a violent dispute between alleged marijuana smugglers and the Mafia in Montreal. Gee I wonder who the biggest marijuana smugglers are in the country that trade it for cocaine in the States? That is this year's Christmas Epiphany. Coming soon.

Salvatore Montagna murder



A blog reader sent me this link to a New York Post article about Salvatore Montagna's murder. Ya gotta love New York: Mob boss gets "iced." He was "whacked" yesterday. SNOW JOB: Sal the Ironworker Montagna is a frozen "stiff."

I will point out that I never posted pictures of Larry Amero when he was shot lying on the ground nor would I post pictures of a dead body of a mobster murdered. The new development in the case is that the New York Paper quotes the Montreal Gazette and states Montagna was shot once during a struggle in Ile Vaudry, a working-class neighborhood on a small island about 30 miles north of Montreal.

But the mortally wounded Montagna jumped into the freezing Assomption River, and swam 30 feet across to the other shore, where he was found around 10 a.m. by emergency responders. Turns out he was in the home of convicted cocaine dealer Jack Arthur Simpson. For generations New York has been the center of the universe for the mafia. I find it amazing how closely tied to it Canada is and to you know who.

Big Brother is Watching System of a Down



I sure found some interesting things for my Christmas Epiphany this year. The thing is, while I was researching it my computer had an intrusion attempt and my newly updated spyware removed a Trojan. Only it didn't get all of it and it crashed my whole system. Big Brother is clearly watching. That was well beyond the corporate spies and their hack jobs. This was way beyond their league. The thing is, crashing my computer doesn't stop the blog. I can just use another computer. There's nothing on my hard drive that isn't saved somewhere else. It's all upstairs. Once I find something I can remember the names and places and just Google it again.

I sure found some interesting things reading through some English translations of some French papers about the Rizzuto family and their enemies. It clearly confirms my previous suspicions. Last year my Christmas Epiphany talked about the Vancouver Christmas of 1995. This year it will talk about how that ties in with the Montreal Halloween of 2005 and the present Rizzuto murders in 2011.

From the heart of Vancouver's gang war to the heart of the Montreal mafia. From Vancouver to Montreal heart to heart, je me souviens. Stay tuned. Truth crushed to the earth will rise again. Before I get into this year's Christmas Epiphany, let's set the stage and talk about the new developments in the Salvatore Montagna murder.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Salvatore Montagna found dead outside Montreal



The body of an alleged Mafia boss, who U.S. authorities said once headed New York's notorious Bonanno crime family, has been fished out of a river near Montreal. Salvatore Montagna's body was found in the Assomption River Thursday morning, in Charlemagne, northeast of the city.

Nicknamed Sal The Iron Worker, Montagno owned and operated a successful steel business in the U.S. The FBI once called him the acting boss of the Bonanno crime family – prompting one of New York's tabloids to dub him the "Bambino Boss" because of his rise to power in his mid-30s. His death is the latest in a series of Mafia-related killings and disappearances over the last two years. Montagna was considered a contender to take over the decimated Rizzuto family.

Montagna was born in Montreal but raised in Sicily and, although he moved to the United States at 15, he never obtained U.S. citizenship. The married father of three was deported to Canada from the United States in 2009 because of a conviction for refusing to testify before a grand jury on illegal gambling.

He pleaded guilty to the minor charge, but it made him ineligible to stay in the U.S. Because he is a Canadian citizen, Ottawa couldn't refuse his re-entry into the country, and Montagna crossed the border without any trouble. His arrival in Montreal occurred just months before members of the Rizzuto family began being killed.

Let's not forget, the New York Times quoted an FBI document wherein FBI informant Frank Lino claims he was introduced to Alfonso Gagliano at a mob meeting in Montreal where he was told Gagliano was a politician and a made member of the mafia in Montreal connected to the Bonno and Gambinno crime families in New York.

Let's not forget how the Sixth family at one time worked with the Hells Angels as well. With friends like them, who needs enemies?

One media outlet is reporting that Salvatore Montagna was next in line to take over for the Rizzuto family as was Raynald Desjardins who was shot at September 2011. His bodyguard was charged in that shooting. Kinda like how Peter Scarcella was just a driver for a mob boss named Paul Volpe. "Someone" his boss knew shot him in the back and left him in the trunk of a car. That's when Scarcella took over for his boss.

Peter Scarcella hooked up with Toronto Hells Angel Paris Christoforou in that botched hit on Mike Modica at a Toronto sandwich shop. CBC claims that among the people working for Peter Scarcella is Mike Marrese, who runs the mortgage fraud scams for Scarcella. Rizzuto family timeline.

Interesting to note that the Rizzuto family has been deeply involved with cocaine trafficking and is being hunted down and wiped out by non Sicilians. The Hells Angles have been associated with them and are also primarily involved with cocaine trafficking.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

The Sixth Family and the Hells Angels



In a book about Vito Rizzuto's connections to the Hells Angels we read: As the plans for moving the drugs unfolded, they revealed the seamless way the Sixth Family worked with both Colombian cocaine cartels and the Hells Angels Motorcycle club.

On August 17 1994 the ship loaded with 558 kilograms of cocaine was met off the coast of Columbia by Norman Rosenblum, a wealthy and enthusiastic businessman from Vancouver. (page 255)

The freighter the headed north, stopping first in Miami, then making it's way along Canada's eastern seaboard and down the St Lawrence seaway to Montreal. Once it arrived at the Port of Montreal, the drugs were supposed to be transshipped to England. In London, two Quebec members of the Hells Angels, Pierre Rodrigue and David Rouleau, waited to collect the load for distribution in Europe.

Rosenblum told an undercover operator that he was a drug importation coordinator -- court documents say he reported directly to Montreal drug-trafficker Luis Cantieri, whom the Montreal Gazette described as "one of the kingpins of a drug network, with connections to Mafia bosses Vito Rizzuto and Frank Cotroni." Rosenblum, who was arrested with 40 others, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his role in the drug and money-laundering scheme.

Paris Christoforou



Let's not forget Paris Christoforou. He's a Hells Angel from Toronto that was caught on a botched hit April 21 2004 with former mafia driver Peter Scarcella where an innocent victim was paralyzed by a stray bullet. They were trying to kill mafia rival Mike Modica. Doing it in public at a Toronto sandwich shop was reckless endangerment.

So once again we have a Hells Angel tied to a drug related murder, this time involving the Sicilian mafia. Peter Scarcella was just a driver for a mob boss named Paul Volpe. "Someone" his boss knew shot him in the back and left him in the trunk of a car. That's when Scarcella took over for his boss.

Seemingly Scarcella formed ties with the Montreal mafia controlled by Vito Rizzuto. I say seemingly because everything these guys did was a web of lies and betrayal.

Seemingly Vito Rizzuto had connections with Mom Boucher and the Hells Angels in Montreal. I say seemingly because the Hells Angels betray everyone they are involved with and don't work for anyone. The unusual way Vito Rizzuto was executed after his son Nick shows that.

Vito Rizzuto was the mediator who was the architect of the consortium or strategic alliance between the Hells Angels, the Mafia and everyone else.

Seemingly Mom Boucher and Luc Bordeleau messed up a huge cocaine deal with the Rizzuto's through Raynald Desjardins who had ties to the Hells Angels and was described as Rizzuto's right-hand man.

Everything the Hells Angels did in Ontario and in Quebec was tied to drugs. That's why they attained criminal organization status there. Arguing that the Hells Angels in British Columbia are separate from the Hells Angels in Ontario and Quebec's crimes are no longer believable when you see how many drug related murders they also became involved with in their short 28 years of being here.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Hells Angel Affiliates and the Rizutto murders



The three accused of firebombing the Rizutto funeral home are: Alexandre Toualy, Julien Bourassa-Richer, both 27, and Sounthone Chareunsouk, 30.

Since Sounthone Chareunsouk was a member of d'allégeance bleue gang and one media outlet in Quebec suspects that gang is responsible for the dastardly deed.

Operation Axe established the affiliation between a major street gang allegiance blue, the Syndicate - affiliates of the Hells Angels - and a well-structured crime cell dedicated to drug trafficking in South West Montreal.

We know Gregory Wooley was Mom Boucher's pal who hooked the Hells Angels up with the Crips in Montreal helping them take over that drug trade. He was denied statutory release in 2008 but his sentence ended on Dec. 26, 2009.

The Syndicate is a gang that developed out of the Nomad chapter through Gregory Wooley, a Hells Angels associate who formed the Syndicate years ago. Zephyr took control of the gang in 2006 while Wooley, who has yet to be tried in Project Axe, was behind bars.

We also know that the dirt bags who killed the elderly Rizutto in his own home with a sniper in the bushes in front of his own family was not Italian. Nor were the dirt bags who firebombed a funeral home. That does sound more like low life Hells Angels affiliates.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Mom Boucher and Luc Bordeleau



Here's a picture of Mom Boucher and Luc Bordeleau. They're not big guys. In fact Luc kinda looks like he could be one of the Backstreet boys. Luc started off in the Rockers and later became a member of the Hells Angels Nomads in Quebec.

There's kind of an interesting story about Mom and Luc in the book The Biker Trials: Bringing Down the Hells Angels. Page 52 talks about how the Hells Angels smuggled 750 kilograms of cocaine into the country on the Fortune Endeavor. They dumped the 750 kilos of cocaine overboard in plastic bags weighted down.

Mom and Luc went to recover the cocaine using sonar. They tried for eight days but couldn't find it. The cocaine was located about a year later by the Canadian Armed Forces. Seemingly that deal was done with Rizzuto's right hand man Desjardin.

Interesting to note that Paris Christoforou was with Peter Scarcella when they did that botched hit in TO that paralyzed an innocent bystander. Scarcella aligned himself with Rizzuto after his boss that he drove for ended up shot in the back by someone he knew.

Guy LePage plead guilty to helping the Hells Angels buy cocaine from a Colombian drug cartel and ship more than 1,600 kilograms of the drug to Florida in 1997 and 1998 that was destined for Montreal.

The book goes on to describe some of Mother dearest's beginnings as a drug user and petty thief. Just like Robert Thomas he has a list of break and enters and theft. He stole cigarettes, TVs and electronics.

November 1975 he and a friend burst into a Butcher shop and robbed the 71 year old owner with a riffle and a butcher knife. After Boucher graduated from armed rape he started the Nomads. After the murder and betrayal of the Death Riders leader which helped the Hells Angels take over the drug trafficking in Laval of course.

So Mommy dearest started off as a petty thief and a rapist and made it to the big leagues. Amazing what a little guy can accomplish with a gun and a knife. Too bad the knife was found in the backs of those he saw as a threat to his leadership.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Montreal Shooting and Vito Rizzuto



Well I guess no gangsters out blog would be complete with out mentioning Vito Rizzuto. CBC reports that a fatal shooting in Montreal today could well be a revenge killing for the death of Vito Rizzuto's son Nick.

OK, I know nothing about the mob in Montreal or Toronto but a few news articles when viewed together make for an interesting read. They refer to Vito Rizzuto as the Teflon Don of Canada. Implying that he is involved with organized crime but has evaded prosecution for it. Yet other reports state he's in prison in the States. CBC calls him the Montreal Mafia Kingpin. The recent cafe firebombings in Montreal show extortion is alive and well in Canada.



I'm going to highlight three threads connected to Vito. The first is Alfonso Gagliano. Wikipedia claims that the Rizzutos are soldiers for the Bonnanno crime family in New York. They claim laws enforcement stated the Rizzutos are major drug traffickers importing and distributing tons of heroine and cocaine and profit greatly from loansharking and illegal gambling. Wikipedia also claims Rizzuto worked closely with the Sicilian Cuntrera-Caruana mafia clan who are major drug importers led in Canada by Alfonso Caruana.

Alfonso Gagliano was the book keeper for Alfonso Caruana's cousin Agostino Cuntrera. Gagliano was from the same small village in Sicily as the Cuntrera-Caruana mafia clan is from.

The New York Times reported that FBI informant Frank Lino claimed he was introduced to Gagliano at a mafia meeting in Montreal and was told Gagliano was a Canadian politician and made member of the mafia in Montreal connected to the Bonno and the Gambino crime families in New York. Gagliano denied it and sued the Canadian government for defamation and lost.



The second thread is Peter Scarcella in Toronto. He's another Sicilian mafioso who got his start driving the car for mafia leader Paul Volpe who was found dead in the trunk of his car. Scarcella was the last person to see Volpe alive. Since then, Scarcella has aligned himself with Vito Rizzuto in Montreal.



The third thread is Hells Angel Paris Christoforou. He was with Scarcella when they shot up a sandwich shop in Toronto and an innocent mother was hit and paralyzed. They were targeting mafia rival Mike Modica.

It's all kind of confusing but we can clearly see three common threads in this organized drug ring. Numerous reports about the Hells Angels being tied to the mafia in Montreal don't help either.

Please note that these gangsters are white despite the fact that one of the shooters in today's hit in Montreal was wearing a fake dreadlock wig so please stop the ridiculous racist remarks. Sending these guys back to Italy might help.