Yes the BOOK (the loan,gambling one) looks like one of the main prizes for anyone able to obtain it. Scoppas claim of it being worth 25 million a year to whomever controls it almost seems low. I assume that number is based just on loan collection not overall sports betting. Even in 2006 the Rizzuto family was taking in hundreds of millions in bets.
As far as platinum goes I had recently reread parts of business or blood on that subject. In that book it states that Moreno Gallo had control of platinum at least from 2010-2012. From the time Gallo allied with Montagna to Gallo's Jan 2012 deportation. Around the time of Vito's release control of platinum on the MTL end had passed back into the Rizzuto family.
However the book states that those in Toronto who had control of platinum retained it. Platinum was controlled 2012-2013 by Ontario based hells Angels and eventually from the 2019 figliomeni arrests and project Hobart the figliomeni ndrine.
So I would say the rizzutos don't currently control platinum but they clearly have a financial interest in it.
There was also a reference in business or blood to Ontario ha members attending Vito's funeral.
Well rob Barletta,billy miller 2 powerful members were long involved in platinum.
And if u have read bloodlines by Lee Lamothe the definitive book about the Caruana cuntrera family Alfonso Caruana was at his peak way above Vito.
Caruana was one of the biggest importers of drugs in the world in his prime.
Financially there would be no comparison to what the cc were up to and the rizzutos.
Caruana being based in Canada being one of the reasons.

The mafia and hell's alliance has long existed in MTL in one form another so was not shocking and still exists in 2022.

The rizzutos were rudderless leadership wise after 2006 colisee bust. Think of an East coast family having its entire admin busted. The recent Colombo bust being a good example. So what if after the Colombos 2021 bust say the lucchese started picking off low level guys and taking territory or a powerful faction of the Colombos?
The rizzutos were a unified crime family pre 2006. After that the family splintered and devolved into a total mess 2006 and on with a litany of groups and factions fighting each other.

The nick jr hit being done by magi was surprising and over money owed as well as del peschio. The reason makes more sense than Montagna or Calabrians from Toronto.

Keep em coming everyone it's refreshing to talk about fairly current mafia activity.

I'd love to hear more on this.

Thanks for the answer anti, I'm looking at possibly trying to find this

a theory...?
sebastien giroux and bernard cherfan being murdered so recently is it possible that someone in OC already knew that silva had flipped?
there has been mention that cherfan helped hide silva when he was on the run and possibly hired him out for "work"
cherfan looks to have been a link to the mafia by way of stefano sollecito.

sollecito is ruthless that much has been established if we are to believe the litany of murders andrea scoppa pinned on him in his book.
also the police in MTL (and canada in general) are not above corruption of any kind. the MTL police have a history of officers dealing with the mafia.

the giroux murder to me is more puzzling.
i'm sure it will not take long to find out.

The Rizzuto borgata still has strong ties to Sicily.

Are Rizzuto’s the most powerful LCN family in Canada?

I believe what their downfall was that they structured their Borgata like a drug cartel more than a traditional LCN family.

With a drug cartels all any member needs is a direct supplier to the drugs and than he can either start his own organization or try to take over the existing.

If their Borgata was LCN, there are atleast rules to try and prevent anyone from just grabbing the Reins.

I still don’t know exactly what happened with the Rizzutto’s other than a coup attempt.

If they were still allied with the Bonanno’s this might not I’ve happened.

It seemed like when all went to shit families and crews were trying to ally themselves with American LCN for some reason.

Meurtres des frères Falduto | Marie-Josée Viau libérée pendant son appel

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...josee-viau-liberee-pendant-son-appel.php

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Coupable de meurtres, Marie-Josée Viau pourra être libérée

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2022/07/26/coupable-de-meurtres-elle-pourra-etre-liberee

I'm sorry but this is outrageous. How can they let this woman out when she was convicted of setting up two men to be murdered on her property and she disposed of the bodies?!?!?! You wonder why the Mob is still operating old school with murders etc. in Canada and not the U.S. Well this could be reason number 1.

typical canadian "justice" system.
let a convicted murderer out on bail and yet it took over a month for our courts to even decide if another woman could even get a bail hearing.
tamara lich was charged with mischief and a small list of other petty crimes related to canadas freedom convoy protest in february.
soooooo....mischief and other nonsense keep her locked up.(i will say she was just released 2 days ago)...murder,disposing of bodies for the mafia welllllll i guess go home with conditions and be good sweetheart.

but i digress.

There's no doubt the lax Candian laws is what is keeping the mafia alive North of the border. Until they get stringent RICO laws (whether fair or not) they will continue to deal with it up there.

Mob-tied Montreal drug smuggler on the lam nabbed after applying for passport

https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...e-lam-nabbed-after-applying-for-passport

You act like Canada is in such bad shape because of the Mafia. Look at America, where the mob has been mostly eradicated, yet our economy is shit, inflation is out of control, we get raped through high income taxes, people are having to work much, much harder than generations past to even hope to own a home, the list goes on and on. Taking all of this into consideration I have absolutely no problem with the mob.

Confessions de Frédérick Silva, le tueur à gages: plusieurs dizaines de meurtres pourraient être résolus:

https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2022/08...ines-de-meurtres-pourraient-etre-resolus

Wow, could this bring down the Rizzuto leadership if not more?

Big news makes a lot of people nervous.

Really exciting. Will depend on who directly gave him orders. But, however, they say he knows about or is implicated in so many murders. How can He not have been paid enough money or be provided to feel safe to secure he doesn't talk?

Premières révélations de Frédérick Silva divulguées en cour

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...e-frederick-silva-divulguees-en-cour.php

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Les aveux explosifs d’un ex-tueur à gages sèment la panique au sein du crime organisé

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2022/08/19/panique-au-sein-du-crime-organise

L'ex-motard Sergio Piccirilli peut retourner à la maison

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...iccirilli-peut-retourner-a-la-maison.php

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Organized crime figure tied to Hells Angels gets full parole

https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...re-tied-to-hells-angels-gets-full-parole

Doubt it

It's conceivable. We know Silva personally met with Rizzuto and Sollecito

Trente minutes, deux meurtres

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...ontreal/trente-minutes-deux-meurtres.php

Two men dead after separate midday shootings in Montreal

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/man-shot-in-parking-lot-of-rockland-shopping-centre

2 men dead after daytime shootings less than an hour apart in Montreal

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/man-shot-rockland-centre-1.6559722

They mention a drug deal that fell through in Ohio. I wonder if this is a cartel hit as was rumored with Caputo.

He pictures himself hours before he was shot at the restaurant

Diego Fiorita began his coffee-in-hand day philosophizing about the beauty of life. A few hours later, he was gunned down on the terrace of a restaurant in Montreal’s Latin Quarter where he had his habits.

https://www.townoflaronge.ca/he-pictures-himself-hours-before-he-was-shot-at-the-restaurant/

Fiorita was a magazine publisher, a martial arts practitioner, and a sports announcer, among other things.

Maybe someone can complete and publish a list of Rizzuto-related murders.

Yep we are talking about dozens in the last decades.

He didnt seem like he had a care in the world this guy.

Shits CRAZY up north...

Le véhicule du suspect est localisé

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/.../le-vehicule-du-suspect-est-localise.php


Old Montreal stabbing victim's testimony is unreliable, defence argues

https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...s-testimony-is-unreliable-defence-argues