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Vito Rizzuto. Vito Rizzuto ( Italian: [ˈviːto ritˈtsuːto]; 21 February 1946 – 23 December 2013), also known as "Montreal's Teflon Don", [1] was an Italian-Canadian crime boss alleged to be the leader of the Sicilian Mafia in Canada. He headed the notorious Rizzuto crime family based in Montreal, Quebec.
The Rizzuto crime family ( Italian: [ritˈtsuːto]) is an organized crime family based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, whose criminal activity covers most of southern Quebec and Ontario. [4] The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) considers the family a faction of the Bonanno crime family, [4] while Canadian and most other ...
The Rizzuto family is sometimes referred to as the Sixth Family. [391] In 1988, Nicolo Rizzuto was convicted of cocaine trafficking and his son Vito Rizzuto became boss of the family. [394] Vito Rizzuto was arrested in January 2004, and extradited to the United States on murder charges in August 2006.
Considered to be one of the most intimidating leaders of the Rizzuto family, Del Balso was the man most assigned to "talk" to debtors. After Rizzuto was arrested in 2004, a committee of caretaker leaders for Vito Rizzuto was formed of Del Balso, Nicolo Rizzuto, Paolo Renda, Rocco Sollecito, Francesco Arcadi and Lorenzo Giordano.
The Cotroni crime family, originally Cotrone [1] ( Italian: [koˈtroːne] ), was an Italian-Canadian 'Ndrangheta -type organized crime syndicate (or 'Ndrina) based in Montreal, Quebec. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) considered the family a branch of the Bonanno crime family of New York City. [2]
Musitano crime family. The Musitano crime family ( Italian: [muziˈtaːno]) is a 'Ndrangheta organized crime family [2] based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as well as Platì in Southern Italy and Buccinasco and Bareggio in Northern Italy. [3] Founded by Angelo Musitano in Canada in the 1940s, the family was one of three centralized Mafia ...
After Rizzuto was arrested in 2004, a committee of caretaker leaders for Vito Rizzuto was formed of Arcadi, Nicolo Rizzuto, Paolo Renda, Rocco Sollecito, Lorenzo Giordano and Francesco Del Balso. [17] [18] As a leader, Arcadi saw the breakdown in relations with the black Canadian street gangs such as the Crack Down Posse and the Bo-Gars whom ...
The Pizza Connection Trial (in full, United States v. Badalamenti et al.) [1] was a criminal trial against the Sicilian and American mafias that took place before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in New York City, U.S. The trial centered on a number of independently owned pizza parlor fronts used to ...