https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...-widow-of-a-montreal-mafia-figure-report

Yes she was. kidnapped

One of the hitters??

Man found dead in Montreal parking lot hours after fatal shooting in Côte-des-Neiges

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6845974

Woman shot dead in her car in Côte-des-Neiges in broad daylight
https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...car-in-cote-des-neiges-in-broad-daylight

Daughter-in-law of Montreal Mafia figure shot dead in parking lot
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/woman-shot-dead-montreal-1.6845655

Most families that have Iacono as a last name in Montreal are of Sicilian origin from Rizzuto's home town. The fact that she is a woman also is not the first to be shot at. . Rita Biasini, Magi's spouse survived an attempt back on Feb.18, 2011. She was driving her car and she was shot at whenn she stopped at a corner..

There was a Domenico Iacono that was killed on Oct. 2015. Don't know if they are related.

Correct on both counts, Ciment. I touched on some of these same points you've made when I started a thread on Twitter about 40 mins. ago. Great minds think alike.

https://twitter.com/CdnOrgC/status/1658871621598294021

Good one !

Exactly sir. The stakes couldn't be higher!! I applaud them for taking her out

What's wrong with you Ralphie

Don't get me wrong, I feel for the family but if you look at it from a gangster's view then this is brilliant. Shit like this sends a message!!

Assassination of Claudia Iacono: "She was indeed the person targeted"

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...elle-etait-bel-et-bien-la-personne-visee

The murder of Claudia Iacono created a real earthquake in the mafia world, and even resonates as far as Italy, according to Félix Séguin, host of J.E, who is there precisely for the shooting of a future show.

He also confides that it is unlikely that this murder is a mistake on the person.

"She was followed for long minutes before her assassination, she was indeed the person targeted," he says.

What message does it send ? If you go after my woman I will go after yours. Is that what it comes to now.

i do not know if domenico and claudia were related. i do know from reports on his murder that domenicos murder had nothing to do with the MAFIA. domenico iacono was not in the MAFIA. his murder has long been shown on various lists as being part of the many mtl mafia wars. it should not be counted as such. i would also hope that some on here are not still trying to push a sicilian v. calabrian narrative. this may have been the case in the 70's or 80's in mtl but it is not the case now or since. these various mafia groups, cells, families what have you are warring over money and territory.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...-plaide-coupable-d-homicide-involontaire

there is the latest update on man charged and reason for committing murder.

Yes these people now are second or even third generation they are all Canadians.

Fantastic thread. Great job.

Targeting a woman would go against 'unwritten rules' of Montreal's organized crime
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/targeti...-of-montreal-s-organized-crime-1.6402793

^^^^
Brazen daylight murder of Montreal salon owner shows ‘arrogance’ of Mafia: expert - The Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/can...montreal-salon-owner-shows-arrogance-of/

Everyone is talking about unwritten rules, no women etc
The mob don’t kill women if they stay on the side and play there role.
But I would think that if a woman wan’t to be in the game, like in the game…. Well i guess bullets aint’t got no gender.
If the hitmen really waited for her outside of her beauty saloon… and don’t think the hit was about sending a message to the husband.
The peoples know why she got hit, and I don’t think it was just to send a message.

Her father-in-law was gunned down in Acapulco 10 years ago. This is like Mexico, journalists, lawyers are also not safe we have seen how drug trafficking has an impact on regular society, like I said we are talking about billions of dollars.

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/30-cars-set-ablaze-montreal-164601035.html

'Probably organized crime': Montreal police probe wave of arsons, extortion attempts

You are dealing with unscrupulous people here, not everybody but plenty.

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2015/09/08/comment-la-pegre-a-deja-infiltre-la-bourse

I dug out an 2015 article which I don't think has anything to do with her death ; but it does show her and her husband involved with underworld infiltration in the stock market. Maybe this shooting could of been about some other deal her and her husband may have been involved and not about the going feud. This is just based on speculation.

How the underworld has already infiltrated the stock market


ANTHONY GALLO
Son of Montreal mobster Moreno Gallo.
He is presented to the AMF as the business partner of Tony Papa by the financier Jean-François Amyot, sued by the AMF.
Anthony Gallo and his wife were assessed $488,000 by Revenue Canada in 2011 for trading in penny stocks .
In a testimony to the AMF, Michel Demontigny says he places Tony Papa and Anthony Gallo "at the top" in the hierarchy of stock market promoters of penny stocks . “Tony Dad, he's been doing this for 25 years, then, you know, he knows all the tricks of the system”. (...) "It is certain that they pay higher cuts to people in the middle, you know, since the young Anthony Gallo is with him, (...) it is certain that it is necessary that he pays royalties to someone.”

i will give a different take here than on the other thread and it has to do with a post above by blackmobs. i wont go back on my claim where i dont think iacono was a female mafia leader or "godmother" of any kind. but what if this murder has no connection to the mafia in mtl at all? as i stated previous the gallo family has been consistently under attack since murder of moreno gallo. presumably from one or several mafia/OC groups in mtl. the sons anthony and moreno jr. have no criminal record, have been linked to no specific influential member or group denoting protection. what if this family through desperation got mixed up with another OC group for protection? perhaps a cartel? there is no precedent in mtl for murdering women i think we can all agree on that. one case against tony magis wife in 2011. but she survived in what was most likely a mistake. cartels however do not have a rule book (i would also argue the mafia has none either). now before everyone gets excited like last time i dared to blame a mexican cartel for a possible murder in mtl...this is just a theory. i will name not these sacred cartels that we cannot blame for anything even in speculation or hypothesis.

we can agree that mexican cartels have a presence in both ontario and quebec. not every group in mtl gets all there drugs from the same HA/MAFIA source. most comes up through ontario after crossing u.s. border in a semi truck. i digress.

if through some act of desperation this family were involved in even financing a load of drugs and that load was seized, as many have been lately who would they turn to in the melieu for protection? after years of being persona non grata.

i repeat just a theory, hypothesis.

i will add further the murder of iacono in no way fits into the possible rizzuto v del balso feud. the gallo/iacono family are certainly not allied with rizzuto that is for sure. del balso is now consistently being grouped in with the HA and barely ref'd as a mafia member at all.

Your theory Vito is plausible. Nothing to laugh about. It's when I read the 2015 article that I posted and their involvement in the stock market; that gave me the idea that they might of been involved in another deal or scheme that went bad.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...-sac-de-plastique-au-coeur-du-proces.php

A plastic bag at the heart of the trial. This banal object is the centerpiece of the Crown in the trial of Joshua Sarroino, accused of having coldly murdered a man in the middle of a restaurant at the DIX30 shopping center in 2019.

https://www.iheartradio.ca/boom/boo...-a-brossard-un-suspect-arrete-1.16923408

Fraud
According to the Sûreté du Québec, the investigation showed that Joshua Sarroino could have played an important role within a criminal organization established in Quebec, very active in a “grandparents” type fraud scheme .

The organization's goal was to collect lists of names of seniors residing in the United States and distribute them to members of the organization for a fee per name.

Subsequently, these people were contacted as part of a "Grandparents" type fraud scheme, that is, to request an urgent payment to help a supposed family member.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...nte-de-fraudeurs-dirigee-de-montreal.php
The Sûreté du Québec and several American police forces on Wednesday struck a criminal network directed from Montreal which would have controlled a traveling troop of fraudsters specializing in “grandparent” type scams in the United States. La Presse was able to note that the investigators had notably searched the residence of Francesco Sollecito, brother of Stefano Sollecito. The latter was until recently considered by several police sources as the head of the Sicilian clan of the Montreal mafia.