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Re: accurate info on size of GTA 'ndrangheta
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if anything arcadi has stayed loyal to the rizzuto/sollecito faction along with francesco del balso. both served time and there is no evidence either were behind any side in the overthrow attempt on nick sr/vito. where some guy comes from in italy was never a major part of the 10 year long war in MTL. such a scenario was completely overblown by the press worldwide. war was over territory led mostly by a french canadian who aligned himself w/ an array of different criminals from all nationalities including for a time the sicilian leader of the bonanno crime family who he then subsequently murdered. whew!!! as far as who arcadi had connections w/ in woodbridge amongst the 'ndrangheta that would be good to know.not all 'ndrangheta cells were behind the desjardins group and further more have never really heard what 'ndrines were supporting the rebel group. commisso's?jimmy demaria?aquino-coluccio? Only 1 ndrina and their specific groups were supporting desjardins
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Re: accurate info on size of GTA 'ndrangheta
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that clears that up so the numbers in toronto are inflated according to some reports. is there still any accuracy to 'ndrangheta cells operating in ottawa,thunder bay and london ontario. alot of this info is from old articles and books i think. Their not inflated it's just alot are inactive
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Re: accurate info on size of GTA 'ndrangheta
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have read on numerous sites and articles about size of each 'ndrine. some say that each 'ndrine must contain at least 49 members?don't know if that includes all italian members associated w/ each 'ndrine at all levels. to read it one way would be that a guy like vincenzo "jimmy" demaria has 48 members working under him(seems like an overreach). the figliomeni/project sindicato 2019 bust took down a cell of 9-12 guys.would that mean the feds/rcmp missed out on 40 +- members. so is it total members worldwide connected to each family/'ndrine? 1 article put the # of 'ndrangheta members in GTA as 9 times 49=450 odd in GTA alone.in the context of a city the size of toronto not many but related to the amount of arrests in past 10yrs doesn't seem credible. i am in no way an expert on the 'ndrangheta but want to know more.there r lots of way more knowledgeable people on here any help would do. There is about 500 members but majority are inactive or only give advice
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Re: accurate info on size of GTA 'ndrangheta
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so that would be holding to the more accurate number of say 5-7 'ndrines in the GTA/hamilton area of ontario. commisso,aquino-coluccio,figliomeni,ursino,musitano's in hamilton=5. ??? about vincenzo "jimmy" demaria,dominic ruso (who all intell states in based in brampton)which i think to be bogus no info on a dominic ruso anywhere in ontario and for that part of TO. any mazzaferro 'ndrine in toronto. only other 'ndrine connection would be the crupi or muia families. The commissos figliomeni and coluccio are not their own ndrina. The commissos,figilomeni and de maria are cosca within the siderno ndrina and coluccio-aquino is a cosca within the gioiosa ndrina and sometimes members from different ndrina/Cosca will form their own cosca for a certain racket
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Re: accurate info on size of GTA 'ndrangheta
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Great articles my man! I enjoyed both, they were very informative. A couple questions if you feel like responding... 1. To which Locale does DiMaria owe allegience/ in command? 2. For that matter, how about Tavernese? 3. I know the Rizzutos were friendly with the Aquino- Colluccio- Bruzzese group, were they hostile towards DiMaria? The Commisos? 4. How do you think the relationship between the Rizxutos and the Colluccios affected the balance of power in the Camera Di Controllo? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated...!! Hope there are more articles coming!
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Re: accurate info on size of GTA 'ndrangheta
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Would Rizzuto being convicted in Absentia, for the Messina bridge deal play into all of this?
It was a bridge connecting Sicily and Calabria, Reggio I think, worth hundreds of billions of lira. Who were the Sicilians and Calabrese in on the deal?
Rizzuto is from the West Coast of Sicily, not Palermo. Was it Riina, Provenzano, etc?
Rizzuto was able to get Bravo murdered in Palmero tho.
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Re: accurate info on size of GTA 'ndrangheta
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I’ve seen Riina under questioning say to talk about “Reggio, you must mention Bagarellaâ€. Why??
Bagarella is Corleonesi?
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Re: accurate info on size of GTA 'ndrangheta
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Great articles my man! I enjoyed both, they were very informative. A couple questions if you feel like responding... 1. To which Locale does DiMaria owe allegience/ in command? 2. For that matter, how about Tavernese?
3. I know the Rizzutos were friendly with the Aquino- Colluccio- Bruzzese group, were they hostile towards DiMaria? The Commisos?
4. How do you think the relationship between the Rizxutos and the Colluccios affected the balance of power in the Camera Di Controllo? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated...!! Hope there are more articles coming! To which Tavernese are you referring? To the Vincenzo Tavernese named in the Operazione Il Crimine arrest warrants, vol. 3? The year of birth stated for the Vincenzo Tavernese named in those arrest warrants is 1966, which appears to have been a typo -- the correct year of birth is 1955. This Vincenzo Tavernese was born in Marina di Gioioisa Ionica. Then you have the Vincenzo Tavernese born 1950 in Siderno. The aforementioned vol. 3 didn't explain the structure of the GTA Siderno Group in terms of place of birth in Calabria but, rather, in terms of alliances and axes of power that were made up of individuals descending from different parts of Calabria. The authority of these higher-ups -- Carmelo Bruzzese of Grotteria and Carmine Verduci of Oppido Mamertina, for example -- seems to have superseded that of the seven 'ndrina leaders who made up la commissione, or la camera di controllo, but important to note is that individual leaders such as Tavernese were allied with certain higher-ups. The book Business or Blood... insinuated that Antonio Coluccio was behind a move against the Montreal Mafia. I'd suggest that there isn't enough evidence to make that a strong theory. What is clear to me -- perhaps to other posters who read that book? -- is that Montreal Mafia leaders were not afraid to go to the Toronto area to raise the issue of Sam Calautti's substantial longstanding gambling debt to the Montrealers, which Coluccio paid on his behalf. Carmelo Bruzzese, the father-in-law of Antonio, appeared to be an important part of the Rizzuto organization (as distinct from the Montreal Mafia). Although Bruzzese was acquitted in Italy of being made into Cosa Nostra, there are still those who believe he was made into the Rizzuto organization. Antonio and his two brothers are said to be related to the Commissos in the GTA who descend from Marina di Gioiosa Ionica. A first cousin of Vito Rizzuto's wife is Facebook friends with the wife of Cosimo Commisso of Thornhill. While in the GTA, Antonio was very close to Sicilian drug trafficker Ignazio Genua (son of Nicola) and to members of the Caruana-Cuntrera clan. When Giuseppe Coluccio fled to Canada in 2005, he travelled through and stayed in Quebec -- briefly? for a while? under the protection of Agostino Cuntrera? under that of the Montreal Mafia leaders? Nick Rizzuto Sr. was a friend of Cosimo Commisso for at least 35 years, if not longer. Rizzuto Sr. spent time living in Toronto in 1987–88, and although Cosimo and brother Remo were in prison at the time, Rizzuto would not have been a stranger to the 'ndrangheta members in the GTA. Peter Scarcella was always close to Remo, and both Vito Rizzuto and Nick Sr. were close to Scarcella. Always remember that, in 1998, the Commissos were a key ally in the Montreal Mafia's plan to increase its influence in Ontario. Police intelligence regarding organized-crime groups and members of organized crime is often wrong. Who told the cops that Vito Rizzuto had a hit list of a half-dozen members of the Commissos in Ontario? What if the intelligence gathered was wrong? What if the informant got it really wrong? Verduci did meet in his home north of Toronto with individuals from Quebec who were hostile to the Montreal Mafia leadership, likely hostile to Vito Rizzuto himself. But was Verduci representing the entire camera di controllo? Or was he trying to figure out what to do with his criminal career, given that an 'ndrangheta expert like Anna Sergi believes Verduci was being ousted from the GTA by his fellow 'ndranghetisti because of his friction with them? I do think that some members of the camera di controllo resented Vito Rizzuto's power and influence in the GTA and elsewhere in the province, but to start killing one another over whether to maintain ties with him? This I doubt but cannot prove. No, I think that the GTA Siderno Group has had such internal dissent since at least 2008 that there was no time to intensely debate how much business to keep doing with the Montreal Mafia.
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Re: accurate info on size of GTA 'ndrangheta
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As I far as I’ve been able to grasp the only tangible example of Siderno and Rizzuto really having problem, may be the death of Cosimo Commisso.
Vito himself was already dead, it seems like it may have been the alliance of HA and Rizzuto (ie. Wolfpack?), and Calabrese in Toronto, that are loyal to the system of business developed in Southern Italy (CN, Ndragheta, etc.) and it’s collective interests.
The divide in Ontario/Canada has to do with loyalty to either South Italy and everything from there, even NYC or those loyal to what is available in Canada, and their system.
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Re: accurate info on size of GTA 'ndrangheta
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so when posters refer to the siderno group it is the same as siderno 'ndrina. i understand vincenzo demaria is part of the siderno group/ndrina but as what?the equivalent of a soldier working under the overall command of cosimo commisso? and the board of control in toronto seems to have dissolved some years ago which would account for the mass of confusion as to how the ndrangheta operates in toronto. there was no board except for the sidernos.
i dont care who is besties on faceback for this thread it is beyond irrelevant .
and i will say again the war in MTL was over drug territory via the ports, sports gambling and control of the city. it does not matter if they r sicilian or calabrian. To put it in New York terms demaria is just a high level capo with a crew and angelo figliomeni is the capo crimini of the siderno ndrina in Canada and Italy because all the top guys in Italy are locked up and angelo didnt kick out the rest of other ndrina from the camera di controllo it's just their all in prison so basically its only the sidernese left on the board
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Re: accurate info on size of GTA 'ndrangheta
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The siderno group is just a police term that the cops use as a name for all the ndrina from the greater siderno area in Toronto The Siderno Group of crime The origin of the so-called "Siderno Group Of Crime", wanted by Frank Costello and Albert Anastasia - belonging to the American Cosa Nostra but of Calabrian origins - dates back to the 1950s and still indicates the Mafia families of Calabrian origin mostly coming from by Siderno who, although acting in different and geographically distant contexts, were and are still linked by blood ties and dependent on the mother gang, stationed precisely in Siderno where, after the death, in January 1975, of the "mammasantissima", Antonio Macrì, managing the whole thing is the powerful Commisso clan. From Ntoni Macrì to the Commissos As already pointed out in the past, in his memorial, the repentant Giacomo Lauro, in Canada to manage the growth of the criminal organization, strongly desired by the "boss boss", Antonio Macrì, have always been different "families" originating in Siderno and in particular, up to 1981 the year of his death, a Sidernese baker, Michele Racco, aka "Mike", a man of great trust of the Sidernese "capobastone" very close friend of the Corleonese chiefs Michele Navarra first, and Luciano Liggio then, but also of the 24-carat Calabrian bosses Domenico Tripodo and Mommo Piromalli. After the killing, in a real ambush of 'ndrangheta taken in the Zammariti district of Siderno, by Antonio Macrì and after a period of substantial vacuum of command, determined by the inability to bear the "local" demonstrated by the natural heir ( a nephew of the capobastone) appointed to the succession, to the direction of the powerful clan was appointed Francesco Commisso, born in 1913, aka "U quagghia", already the right arm of the old boss of the two worlds, but was seriously injured during the deadly ambush damages of Don Antonio Macrì. The real leap in quality of the clan, however, materialized when the reins of the Sidernese consortium passed into the hands of Cosimo Commisso, born in 1950, aka "U quagghia", son of Francesco Commisso. Already from the right arm of his father, the astute "Cosimino" had managed to create a real holding of international crime strong of the close plots of kinships and friendships woven with top representatives of the "Siderno Group of Crime", in particular in Canada, especially in the city of Toronto. Criminal holding In a short time the sidernese group present overseas has transformed, according to what has emerged in various investigations and according to what has been repeatedly highlighted by investigators of the State Police and by anti-mafia magistrates from Reggio and Calabria, in a real holding of international crime, of which, according to investigators, one of the main and current exponents would be Rocco Remo Commisso, born in 1946, cousin of Cosimo Commisso, who returned to freedom recently after a very long (over 20 years) detention period.
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Re: accurate info on size of GTA 'ndrangheta
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Deleted. You are posting this same link in multiple threads. That's equivalent to spamming.
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