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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 ...
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.
Nicolo Rizzuto ( Italian: [nikoˈlɔ rritˈtsuːto]; February 18, 1924 – November 10, 2010) was an Italian-Canadian crime boss and founder of the Rizzuto crime family, the Sicilian Mafia organization based in Montreal, Quebec . Rizzuto was born in Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, Italy, in 1924, and immigrated to Montreal in 1954 with his wife, son ...
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]
The first season is a dramatization of the rise and fall of the real-life Rizzuto crime family, a Montreal-based organized crime family, and is based on the 2015 book Business or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War by Antonio Nicaso and Peter Edwards. The second season departs from the book and is fully fictional.
Arcadi served as the leader of the "Young Turk" faction of the Rizzuto family whose most important members were Francesco Del Balso and Lorenzo Giordano whose usual meeting place was the Bar Laennec in Laval. [9] Arcadi maintained close links for a time with Gregory Woolley, the boss of both the Syndicate street gang and of a Hells Angels ...
Paolo Violi. Paolo Violi ( Italian: [ˈpaːolo ˈvjɔːli; viˈɔːli]; 6 February 1931 – 22 January 1978) was an Italian-Canadian mobster and capodecina in the Cotroni crime family of Montreal . Violi was born in Sinopoli, Calabria, Italy, in 1931; his father Domenico was the boss of the Violi clan in his hometown. Violi immigrated to ...
Life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole for at least 25 years (2002) 10 years (2018) Maurice Boucher (21 June 1953 – 10 July 2022) was a Canadian gangster, convicted murderer, reputed drug trafficker, and outlaw biker —once president of the Quebec Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. [2]