JOE DI MAULO "WHITE AS A SHEET" AFTER HIS LAST MEETING WITH GODFATHER VITO RIZZUTO

A few days before being murdered, the influential mafia Joe Di Maulo had met the godfather Vito Rizzuto. He was "white as a sheet" when he returned home.

This is what we learn from reading court documents related to the Magot investigation, which led to several arrests in the organized crime community in 2015, to which our Office of Investigation and the QMI Agency had access.

On the evening of November 4, 2012, at 8:22 p.m., the police were notified by a 911 call housed by the wife of Joe Di Maulo – who is also the older sister of the kingpin Raynald Desjardins – that the veteran mafioso lay lifeless in the parking lot of the family residence in Blainville.

On the spot, the first police found that the victim had received several gun projectiles to the head. Three, according to the autopsy performed on his body the next day.

His daughter Milena met with two police investigators the following January 3rd.

She told them that during the days before his death, her father went "to meet Vito Rizzuto, despite the fact that the latter [did not] want to see him".

"On his return, he was white as a sheet," she told the police.

As if he suspected it

In addition, Joe Di Maulo made "several unusual steps" during the last hours of his life, as if he felt that the end was approaching.

In particular, he "saw his accountant to pay his taxes", had his cellar evaluated "worth $305,000" and he left "a message of about an hour on a cell phone".

In a book that Milena Di Maulo co-wrote with criminologist Maria Mourani in 2018, she also recounted a "lively discussion" on the phone that her father had had with the godfather Rizzuto, a few days before being killed.

During this call, Di Maulo told Rizzuto, referring to Raynald Desjardins: "What do you want me to do? He's my brother-in-law!"

At the time, police suspected Desjardins of being part of a group that had tried to take control of the Montreal mafia during previous years, while Godfather Rizzuto was imprisoned in the United States.