The other thread was/is massive 130 pages.

Vito,

Before the split
Before Vito, went away at max capacity how many crews did they have?

6 ? Each crew had a captain?

Do you know who the 6 captains were?

How big was each crew?
We’re there made guys in each of those crews?

Are any of those captains alive today?
What is the structure today of the family?

Are they a LCN family today?
Or just a drug cell?

How could the son who wasn’t involved with the family business
How could be the respected leader today?

Why isn’t he dead if he is out front.

Talk about the “GOD FATHER” and Michael Corleone,
He stepped in when his father got shot and he took over when his older brother got killed.

Anyone see the resemblance here?

Michael was straight
Leonardo was straight

Is he really calling the shots?
Ordering murders?

What about the Vito Rizzutto “REVENGE” hit list?
At one point even after his death whoever was on it was still being targeted for death.

They were never organized the way American LCN is - the official figure in terms of "made guys" quoted to the Bonanno leadership in the late '90s was 20 guys.

There is court evidence that would show other guys were "made" by Vito and on top of that, there are tons of guys from the other side who link up with the Rizzuto's as well who would have been made in the old country. And we know from Sal Vitale's testimony that Vito introduced them to "friends of ours" who NY had previously not known anything about - including Alfonso Gagliano who was Canadian Minister of Public Works. Still, the total number of what American LCN would refer to as "made guys" wouldn't have been more than 40-50 at max but they would have had associates numbering well into the hundreds - it was a huge group.

In terms of crews, the most notorious would have been Lorenzo Giordano/Francesco del Balso's crew who had control of a massive sports betting book. Rocco Sollecito had a big crew too which was dominant in construction. Joe di Maulo had his own crew of Calabrians. The Scoppa Brothers had their own guys around them, and were big in drugs as well as carting - their brother Roberto Scoppa had a big contract with the City of Montreal. Del Balso is still around and would still be a serious guy in that organization. Former Underboss Frank Arcadi is still around too and would be another extremely dangerous presence with major sway over the Calabrian faction.

The family is heavily diminished today although very much still around. They've retreated back to more traditional rackets in gambling and construction and are still involved in drugs but not on the massive wholesaling scale of the 90's and early 2000's.

The boss today is Stefano Sollecito, son of Rocco Sollecito. Leonardo is more like consigliere but they basically run it together.

Vito,

Before the split
Before Vito, went away at max capacity how many crews did they have?

6 ? Each crew had a captain?

Do you know who the 6 captains were?

How big was each crew?
We’re there made guys in each of those crews?

Are any of those captains alive today?
What is the structure today of the family?

Are they a LCN family today?
Or just a drug cell?

How could the son who wasn’t involved with the family business
How could be the respected leader today?

Why isn’t he dead if he is out front.

Talk about the “GOD FATHER” and Michael Corleone,
He stepped in when his father got shot and he took over when his older brother got killed.

Anyone see the resemblance here?

Michael was straight
Leonardo was straight

Is he really calling the shots?
Ordering murders?

What about the Vito Rizzutto’s hit list that supposedly survived him and his death, meaning people who were on it were still being killed after he died.

Do we know who is on thy list?
Are his enemies still being murdered?

If so who is carrying out the hits?

What about when Desjardins gets out
Is he a target?

Does he have a following still?

In 1981, Vito Rizzuto took a trip to New York City, which police believe represented his formal induction into the Bonanno crime organization.

Desjardins will absolutely be a target when he is paroled; he's practically a dead man walking and is lucky to be alive as it is; they almost got him in 2011.

He may have a few guys left with him like Vittorio Mirarchi, but he was only a somebody cause of two guys: Vito Rizzuto and Joe di Maulo, his brother in law. Montagna is dead, di Maulo is dead, De Vito is dead so it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put the pattern together here. He's a spent force.

From a Canadian documentary thanks to Etna from BHF



Rizzuto Network:
1. Leonardo Rizzuto
2. Steve Sollecito
3. Loris Cavaliere
4. Domenico Salerno
5. Antonio Cinquino
6. Steve Vogl
7. Steven Di Paola
8. Carmelo Cannistraro
9. Pat Ragusa
10. Vito Salvaggio
11. Marco Pizzi
12. Gino Costantini (dead)
13. Liborio Cuntrera
14. Davide Barberio
15. Mario Sollecito
16. Giuseppe Sollecito
17. Francesco Sollecito
18. Vincenzo Spagnolo
19. Nicola Spagnolo

Mirarchi Clan:
1. Vittorio Mirarchi
2. Calogero Milioto
3. Jonathan Mignacca
4. Alessandro Succapane
5. Raynald Desjardins
6. Steve Casale
7. ?
8. Felice Racaniello
9. Steven D'Addario
10. Steven Fracas
11. Antonio ?
12. Tony Mignacca Jr?
13. Pietro Magistrale
14. Domenico Scali?

Scoppa Brothers:
1. Andrea Scoppa (Dead)
2. Joseph Chamai
3. Steve Ovadia (Dead)
4. Roberto Scoppa
5. Salvatore Scoppa (Dead)
6. ?
Direct^
1. Massimo Campellone

Lasalle City Clan:
1. Giuseppe Arcoraci
2. Pietro D'Adamo
3. Pietro Monte

Calabrian Clan:
1. Antonio Gallo
2. Franco Albanese
3. Antonio Vanelli
4. Moreno Gallo Jr.
5. Antonio Mucci

Cafe Bellrose:
1. Stefano Broccoli (Café Bellerose owner)
2. Michael Sciaraffa
3. Rocco Sollecito Jr
4. Lorenzo Giordano Jr
5. Fabio Nicolo Chimenti (Chimienti)
6. Marco Landucci
7. Lucio Di Paola
8. Carlo Sciaraffa
9. Tony Tallarita
10. Emmanuel Ragusa (Dead)
11. Giancarlo Pesce
12. Stello Tutino

Focarazzo Network:
1. ?
2. Anthony Abate?
3. Patrizio Ruso
4. Giuseppe Focarazzo
5. Louis Brissette (Dead)
6. Frederic Lavie (former Rocker & Death Rider)

Cazzetta Clan:
1. Salvatore Cazzetta
2. Salvatore Brunetti
Below/Beside^
1. Gregory Woolley
2. Francesco Arcadi
3. Francesco Del Balso

Steve Sports Bar:
1. ?
2. Domenico Agostino (Dead)
3. Ignazio Gentile?
4. Ignazio Gentile Jr?
5. Dany De Gregorio
6. ?
7. Giuseppe De?
8. Salvatore Mangangelo?
9. Mohamed Dada
10. Ciro Di Mauro

Violi Clan:
1. Dom Violi
2. Joe Violi

Annunziata Clan:
1. Luigi Annunziata
2. Michele Annunziata?
3. ? Annunziata
Beside^
1. ?

It would literally take too long, Furio, but many of the guys on that list are dead, over and above the ones you've indicated in brackets.

Don't know where the "Cazzetta" clan info comes from - he's not Cosa Nostra, he's a full patch HA. You've got a former Rizzuto Underboss and Capo working for a Hells Angel??

bensonhurst the sixth family by lee lamothe and adrian humphreys is a definitive account of the peak years of the rizzutos.

by 2004 the rizzutos had eclipsed in power most other north american italian crime families.
although structured differently the rizzutos admin is closer to the model of the chicago outfit than most traditional italian crime families.
an overall BOSS with a street boss supervising a group of capos/territory bosses.
in january 2004 they were still at there peak so will use that as a starting point.

THE RIZZUTO CRIME FAMILY
(Jan.1 2004-
-19 days until VITO RIZZUTOS arrest for three capos murder in NY.

BOSS
1.VITO RIZZUTO

SENIOR ADVISOR
2.NICOLO RIZZUTO SR.-father

Street Boss
3.Paolo Renda
4.Nick Rizzuto Jr.-son
-best explanation for the dual street boss is the roles that these 2 men played. paolo renda is vito's brother in law,is sicilian and his most trusted family member outside of his father and 2 sons. renda was long considered to be involved in control of finances for the family and money laundering. nick jr at this point was acting as his fathers top buffer to the street. the rizzutos operate as part old time sicilian "mafia family" part chicago outfit willing to change as circumstance dictates.

Capos/territory bosses
5.Rocco Sollecito
6.Francesco Arcadi
7.Agostino Cuntrera
8.Joe DiMaulo

-this would be my best guess but only showing top leadership.
-VITO and NICK SR. would have have associates and other close family members working directly for them perhaps i can list later on.
-VITO as the BOSS even shown here has 3 family members working directly with him.
-the 4 capos would each have multiple members/cell leaders and associates. each of these 4 capos would also forge there own alliances with other OC groups in MTL and throughout Canada. it can be hard to nail down actual membership because of these alliances.
-my best guess would be that those 4 crews could have 15-25 core members with possibly each member having 2-5 associates. so at the most the rizzutos are between 60-100 what could be described as soldiers/members. i can think of no claim of an initiation ceremony ever taking place again more akin to the outfit.

out of the above mentioned only francesco arcadi is still alive and well.
all but VITO were murdered.

What happened he had enough juice to be a major player at the time of the conflict.
Enough juice to take out an American LCN A.B.

Now is a dead man walking

Is he like a Pat Musitano?

I am sure he was on Vito Rizzutto's hit list when he was still alive?

Thank YOU, you guys for taking the time to explain this to me.

2 crews. Francesco Arcadi, his lieutenants were, Francesco del Balso, Joe di Maulo and Lorenzo Giordano. Arcadi took over when Frank Cotroni stepped down in 1998 after Paul Cotroni was killed. Nick Rizzuto Jr, his lieutenants were, Agostino Cuntrera, Emanuele Ragusa, and Rocco Sollecito. Each lieutenant had two to four made members, perhaps more. Frank Arcadi crew was the biggest, most lucrative, and most violent as they were the guys in the streets day to day. These members made alliances with other criminal groups and their leaders were put on record as associates, not all of them paid but split money in deals. That is how Vito maintained peace in Montreal for so long.
Only Frank Arcadi and Frank del Balso are alive. Most of the others were murdered except Emanuele Ragusa who died of a heart attack in 2018.
Paolo Renda and Moreno Gallo were only soldiers but served as Consigliere for the crews when soldiers needed to talk to Vito Rizzuto.

The Cazzettas are HA but also a sicilian clan.

Lol
Ok so we have multiple theories here

So you are saying they had just two crews

How many crews today?
2

Delbaso and Arcadi are they in the same crew now?

If so who is the leader?

When Rizzutto came back and shot hisself back to the Capo Di Tutti spot before he died.
Where were Arcadi and Delbaso with him? Or against him?

disregard vacari's post dont know where any of that comes from.
the cotronis had NO leadership role of the RIZZUTO CRIME FAMILY.
frank cotroni sr after all his past arrests reported direct to joe dimaulo as dimaulo was the capo with control of past cotroni/violi crew members.
joe dimaulo did not work under arcadi.
the rizzuto crime family did not have a consigliere position.

today in 2022 the rizzuto crime family does not exist in the form it did in 2004.
as posted previously there is now 12-13 separate cells/crews operating in the MTL area.
4 cells still align themselves together rizzuto,sollecito,pizzi,arcadi and have an alliance with the MTL chapter of the HA.

arcadi and del balso are still on the street with arcadi being leader of cell/crew. del balso it appears to have just been arrested for extortion at a church?

when Vito returned to the street both arcadi and del balso were imprisoned for there roles in project colisee. neither would return to street by the time of Vito's death.

frank cotroni was imprisoned in 1998 at time of his son paolos murder for cocaine trafficking. paolo was murdered as part of the larger biker war between the HA and rock machine (1994-2000).
cotroni sr was released in 2002 making it impossible that he was running any type of crew from 1998 on.

again any responsibility for the cotroni/violi families in MTL fell under the leadership of Joe DiMaulo. NOT the violi bros domenico and giuseppe as they were living in hamilton.

working on answering prev questions bensonhurst keep em coming.

So the 4 cells along with the HellsAngels that would be who is left from the original Rizzutto family.

What was the deal with Scoppo’s why did they hate the Rizzutto’s?
Was/is one of them a RAT?

Andrea Scoppa was a rat. They did not hate the Rizzuto's in fact they were quite loyal to Vito. It all changed when Vito was gone and the Sollecito's began to exercise more control. The Scoppas did not get along with the Sollecitos.

I will echo east sides comments about Andrea scoppa never liking the sollecitos.
After reading the source it becomes very clear that the 2 never did get along.
Scoppa would have been aligned with Vito in period 2012-2013. Scoppa ran his own crew at this point which included a cell led by his brother Salvatore.
Although proof has yet to emerge of Andrea scoppa being an Informer to the police the fact he skated on a 120+kg cocaine bust may be enough proof. It also could be police incompetence. But if he was willing to spill the beans to reporters which formed the basis of his book I wouldn't be surprised if he was an Informer.

Those 4 cells I mentioned would be the ones still working together...but there could be more depending on what we consider a cell. Also would need to know members and associates and a geographic location or criminal activity.

If we go from furios above list as an example. The Rizzuto network is not 1 top to bottom network but actually 3 different cells. One led by Leonardo Rizzuto,Stefano Sollecito and Marco Pizzi/Barberio.

"Reports of my death have been greatly overstated!"...

Raynald is def a target, but so many of them are at risk. They did make a change in recent years though realising that the murders are very bad for business.

i will try to explain LEONARDO RIZZUTO and his role/position in the MTL mafia.
first a quote from an italian investigator, un named in the book the 6th family by lamothe and humphreys.
from pg.343..."there is no crowning,no vote to make a leader in the clans you call the 6th family. the leader naturally emerges and he is more of a steward,guiding the interests and activities of several blood relatives and in-laws"...."he doesnt take power and he isnt bestowed power. power flows to him naturally. not every interest is criminal. he is involved in or knows intimately the marriages;the marriages that are in trouble;births of the children;the status of the older generation. he consults with the older generation,who may have retired but are still very knowledgable of the mafia and have connections and relationships of there own."

this above quote describes VITO RIZZUTO but could also be used to describe his son LEONARDO.
his last name alone commands respect in montreal. LEONARDO is responsible for a large group of people and family as well as there interests.
LEONARDO may be 1st among equals currently in the mtl mafia. he has his own small cell of criminal associates and a much larger group of family. he is still as far as i know a licensed to practice lawyer in the province of quebec. he was brought along by his father and would attend meetings with other criminals in order to maintain lawyer client privilege. this fact was proven when rcmp bugged some of his meetings during the magot-mastiff investigations and the judge dismissed all charges because of the cops bad practice.

he has survived partly from being imprisoned from 2015-2018 while awaiting charges. it was only in 2015 that his name emerged as being a leader in the mafia.
upon his release in feb 2018 the tide began to turn against the scoppa bros and their allies in that war. inside 2 years the scoppas and many of their associates were dead.
as i said above he could be looked upon as the overall leader in mtl but most recent intell from the respected journalists at la presse and journal de montreal state that currently there has yet to emerge an overall BOSS in the city.

Ok so if we use Furio's list to get us in the "BALL PARK" we have almost 100 men, that would be either "MADE" or an associate that has the same pull as a "MADE MEMBER"
Who is kicking up to who?

back to one of your original ??? about raynald desjardins.
there was a conspiracy to murder him in jail by maurice 'mom' boucher at canadas supermax pen sainte-annes-des-plaines in 2015.
boucher plead guilty to this charge on april 17 2018.boucher was already in jail for life for the murder of 2 prison guards in 1997.
authorities caught wind of this and desjardins was never transferred he ended up out east at the atlantic correctional institution in renous,new brunswick.
it was at this institution where he is alleged to have met brian james marriott who was the wing boss at the prison.
marriott is the leader of the spryfield mob a criminal group based in halifax. marriott and his mob would provide security in prison for desjardins.
at some date desjardins was transferred to cowansville pen about 100km east of MTL to finish sentence ahead of release date. cowansville is a medium security prison making it unlikely there would be any attempts on his life.
at present desjardins is awaiting release again after violating parole within weeks after his april 19 2021 release.

I don't think the mob is as easy to figure out as they used to be, and that's how they like it.

Shows how far Desjardins has fallen if he has to resort to lowlives like the Marriotts for "protection". Compared to the mobs he used to do business with like the Sicilians and Calabrians, the Hells Angels or even the Haitian gangs in Montreal, the Lebanese families in Laval or the Native traffickers on the Mohawk reservation...mobs like the Marriotts are a bunch of wife beater wearing idiots.

As someone said he about where Pat Musitano was before they clipped him.
On borrowed time.