^^^^
Let’s welcome back the poster formerly known as The Ghost, whose account here was suspended last September. Also known as SantoClaus on the other forum.

Le crime organisé utilise plus de 600 entreprises québécoises pour infiltrer l’économie légale
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...becoises-pour-infiltrer-leconomie-legale

Un gros joueur de l’alimentation au Québec a évité in extremis de se faire infiltrer par le crime organisé et les cartels
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...rer-par-le-crime-organise-et-les-cartels

Same idiot that was calling folks monkeys and shit last year wasn't he?

Correctamundo.

Troll

Yep I just ignore his BS. I figured it was him when I seen those posts.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.it/2025/03/05/gli-effetti-dei-dazi-di-trump-sulla-ndrangheta/

the scenario
The Effects of Trump's Tariffs on the 'Ndrangheta
From Siderno to Toronto: A Short Story of a Global Crime Central
Published: 05/03/2025 – 16:59

Will the tariff war unleashed by President Trump also have consequences on the business of the 'ndrangheta? Probably yes, and it is certain that the economic minds of the Calabrian clans in these hours are evaluating everything that is changing around the globe. Especially in Canada, a nation at the center of global drug routes and a territory of antagonism with the White House.
The latest news reports thirteen provinces (Canada is a federal state) that have joined together to respond to the trade war of their neighbors with measures that make the pouring and selling of American whiskey and bourbon much more expensive. Will there be a return to the past like the times of prohibition? For the moment on this front we are in the vicinity of the fant'ndrangheta.
Another issue is more likely. That of the goods that leave from the port of Montreal. Antonio Nicaso, an authority on Canadian mafias, declared two years ago to Fabio Benincasa of the Corriere della Calabria "whoever controls Montreal, controls the access point for cocaine in North America". Much revolves around the port front. The dust is hidden in various goods. If duties increase, as is likely, what consequences will this increase have on the most profitable market of the Calabrian-Canadian crime?
Will we have reconversions or just price increases to maintain revenues? We'll see.
While we try to understand the strategies, we still need to understand what the 'ndrangheta is in Canada?
For some time now, in our newspaper, I have been trying to unravel even in that distant latitude, trying to codify a long chain of bloody murders of Calabrians and also recounting the limits of Canadian legislation held back by broad guarantees in terms of anti-mafia legislation that has often allowed famous Calabrian bosses to get away with it in the land of the Red Coats, who are very busy with the work of repression.
I would like to point out a useful and well-documented book on the subject from the precious “Mafie” series distributed by the Gazzetta dello Sport , which has assigned the volume “Le mafie in Canada” to the young Calabrian researcher Eleonora Aragona .
The author, originally from Amantea, combines in her work the ability of a law researcher in Milan where she lives together with her already rich curriculum of free lance for various newspapers. The real added value is that Eleonora had an experience as editor-in-chief for the weekly “La Riviera” circumstance that allowed her to live in Siderno and surroundings. As is known Siderno is the capital referent of the Canadian criminal structures. The author Aragona therefore found herself in the privileged condition of connecting the data of the judicial orders with customs and people of the territory that she saw in her own habitat.
Eleonora Aragona offers us new nodes of knowledge of a map that is not always decipherable.
The first concerns a new anthropology of Canadian crime. Defined as “The milieu”. A cartel that combines Cosa Nostra, 'ndrangheta, Haitians, street gangs, Irish and Asians. At the top are the Sixth Families and the Siderno Group. It is not a Brancaleone army and the Calabrians and Sicilians are not opposed but mixed in wars and trafficking.
Siderno Group of Ontario has for example a very close link with the Hell's Angels (it is an ancient tribe of bikers already sadly known in the last century for having been the security service of the Rolling Stones concerts causing the death of a black boy by stabbing, an image immortalized in a documentary of the time). A
new contaminated fauna that of the Calabrians with the thugs on motorcycles. The results are always those of the globalized mafia.
The proceeds of the Canadian “milieu” are invested in Belize, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the money laundering has found good brokers in Swiss and German banks, but once upon a time it was different.
For the Canadian families, the person who paid copious amounts of money into an incriminated account at the Lugano branch of Credit Suisse, as ascertained by a Swiss investigator, was Mrs. Libertina Manno in Rizzuto, described by the detective as follows: «The woman wore her hair in a bun, she was a lady in her seventies, one of those elderly women you meet on the streets of the South, always dressed in mourning with a stern look».
The lady together with her accomplice operated on 14 bank accounts opened in 1988 declared as proceeds of income from agricultural and livestock activities undertaken in Venezuela. It all ended with 6 months of preventive prison in 1995 and two fines of 250,000 Swiss francs. A piece of a complex mosaic that Aragona hypothesizes in his work based on judicial investigations and that would see the Canadian Siderno Group as hegemonic in decisions on Calabria with a Crime that decides on the land of origin. It would be an absolute first. A novelty of enormous importance that we report only as a possible hypothesis but not certain.
Canada is certainly a key state for the contemporary 'ndrangheta that has ancient roots. As the story of Vincenzo Cotroni, son of a carpenter from Mammola, who arrived in 1925 at 15 years old, and who as an adult becomes the Bonnano's right-hand man in Montreal, tells us. Ethnic groups marginalized by the laws of the time and who take the social elevator as criminals.
Reading Eleonora Aragona's book seems like a movie. As in the reenactment of the murder of Pietro Sciarra with his wife killed on February 14, 1976,Valentine's Day, in memory of the massacre ordered by Al Capone in Chicago, at the exit of the Riviere cinema in Montreal. Film scheduled? The Godfather Part II by Francis Ford Coppola. Screen and reality that reflect each other together with the godfathers of Siderno. The new contemporary balances of the "milieu" according to investigative journalists and investigators still run between Buffalo and Toronto, only 160 kilometers away that you can cover in less than three hours with a bus that easily crosses the border. Buffalo is in the USA, the city of Giovanni Giuseppe Papalia called Johnny Pops , son of a smuggler from Delianuova who drew the criminal history of Canada and the USA.
Their descendants today must understand how to continue to command and make money. Trump's economic war to date does not seem to be very interested in these unknown narco-states governed by Calabrians. Better to conquer Greenland. (redazione@corrierecal.it)

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...l-se-trompe-de-cible-et-tire-sur-un-aine

Paid $10,000 to Kill a Mafioso, He Shoots the Wrong Target and Shoots an Elder
The 36-year-old Ontario man was sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison.

Pena Torrez was also sentenced this past Monday in a Newmarket, Ontario courthouse for a shooting in Schomberg, also in Ontario.

Which organized-crime group hired him to try to kill Francesco Del Balso in January 2023: one of the Italian mafie or the Hells Angels?

https://www.pressreader.com/article/281479282173516

Une peine de 13 ans pour avoir tenté de tuer un homme qu’il pensait être Del Balso
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...n-homme-qu-il-pensait-etre-del-balso.php

although not yet proven anywhere, if we follow narrative of del balso leaving rizzuto-sollecito clan in favor of robert faction of H.A. mtl chapter in order to take "the book", the most likely group ordering this attempt would be the rizzuto-sollecito clan. although who had contact to reach out to ms-13 members in toronto is another story, that rightfully should remain a mystery.

it can be seen after this mistaken id hit that whichever group wanted del balso dead upped their hitman game to ultimately take him out.

Mistaken identity: Man sentenced to 13 years for attempted murder in botched Mafia hit
https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/local-crime/article799456.html

^^^^
In case anyone hits a paywall or is otherwise asked to create an account:

https://pressreader.com/article/281633901000396

^ this is what happens when you get a cheap hitman, lol

at least he didn't flip on whoever paid him(yet)

Le clan Rizzuto menacé?
https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2025/03/12/le-clan-rizzuto-menace

^^^^
Video trailer -- only 15 seconds long; same as the video accompanying article above -- will be found at https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/emissions/je.

Article will appear this Friday in both le Journal de Montréal and le Journal de Québec.

If the Rizzuto are losing more power every year.
What groups are getting stronger ? Other mafia clan ? The Hells angels ? The gangs ?
All of them ?

Will be an interesting read. Wanna see what sources they have and how relevant the information is they can give to canadian media about the clans canadian operations. But also the x time that topic comes up in an article over the years.

Des armes à feu du pays de Trump importées en contrebande dans une bibliothèque des Cantons-de-l’Est et saisies chez des leaders notoires de la mafia montréalaise
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...eaders-notoires-de-la-mafia-montrealaise

Les armes du pays de Trump: voyez des photos inédites de la perquisition menée par la police chez Leonardo Rizzuto
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...enee-par-la-police-chez-leonardo-rizzuto

Les armes du pays de Trump: un pistolet chargé caché dans un sofa du caïd Raynald Desjardins
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...-dans-un-sofa-du-caid-raynald-desjardins

Les armes du pays de Trump: un pistolet caché dans un plafond au bureau de l’ancien avocat du clan Rizzuto
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...bureau-de-lancien-avocat-du-clan-rizzuto

Quebec man accused in huge cocaine, fentanyl and meth smuggling case appears in U.S. court. The case involves a lot of fentanyl, but all of it was in the U.S. and believed to be from Mexico; the endgame was to smuggle drugs into Canada
https://nationalpost.com/news/canad...meth-smuggling-case-appears-in-u-s-court

Gravel Gonzalez seemed a small fry.

Attention focused on alleged bosses of the two related smuggling networks that the FBI snitch infiltrated, including Roberto Scoppa, 55, of Montreal, the brother of two leaders in the Montreal Mafia who were killed during a mob war; Guramrit Sidhu, 61, of Brampton, west of Toronto, known as “King,” who allegedly orchestrated the Ontario branch; and three wanted narcos linked to Mexican cartels who remain fugitives.

All of the Canada-based accused faced extradition from Canada to the United States, which can be a lengthy process if it is resolutely opposed.

Gravel Gonzalez, it turns out, didn’t put up much of a fight.

La mafia montréalaise paralysée par la mégaenquête policière menée avec l’aide de son ex-tueur à gages Frédérick Silva
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...-de-son-ex-tueur-a-gages-frederick-silva

Mafia montréalaise: Leonardo Rizzuto serait allé chercher conseil en Italie après avoir été victime d’une tentative de meurtre en 2023
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...ictime-dune-tentative-de-meurtre-en-2023

Grandparent scams steal millions from seniors. Organized crime made Montreal a hotbed for them
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-grandparent-scams-1.7485798

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...et-agression-sur-un-mafieux-a-18-ans.php

Extortion, firearm discharge and assault on a mafia member at 18 years old

Un chef de clan et sa garde rapprochée arrêtés pour possession d’arme
Pietro D’Adamo, considéré par les policiers comme un chef de clan et un acteur influent de la mafia montréalaise, et des membres de sa garde rapprochée, ont été arrêtés en milieu d’après-midi par les enquêteurs du Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), a appris La Presse de plusieurs sources.
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...ochee-arretes-pour-possession-d-arme.php

^^^^
D’Adamo et sa garde rapprochée accusés après la découverte d’armes à feu
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...es-apres-la-decouverte-d-armes-a-feu.php

the previous article a few posts back about larry cooney has peaked my interest. when reading it alleges he was followed for several days between june and july 2022 while he was acting as a bodyguard to organized crime figures in lasalle. cooney has a legit right to be labeled a west end gang member, whatever that may mean at this point in time. but the more recent reports by french media and those in the know claim that and i would agree, the west end gang as it was historically known and recognized does not exist. the police do not say there are no white irish named criminals but that these few remaining individuals in no way constitute what once was a fairly large loosely allied at times warring west end gang. from darcy o'connors great book on them you begin to understand that it was never a top to bottom monolithic group a la mafia. but at its peak about a dozen different cells/families who at times worked together and brought a variety of different criminal talents to the mix. however by the time of the matticks bros massive drug importing most were dead, in jail, gone legit, retired, died of old age, still in the life of crime or some even became authors. my abe simpson ramble aside, who then at least among the very few still active irish oc members or associates would cooney be protecting? who has that much pull and in need of protection at that point in time summer 2022. i can think of none. but pietro d'adamo may have. he has long been mentioned and the only mafia member mentioned to have any links to irish oc. d'adamo has long been named as being in control of lasalle and lachine territory. d'adamo as well was one of a half dozen to be warned of his life being in danger upon raynald desjardins release in may 2021. we also now know that something caused a conflict in 2022 amongst rizzuto-sollecito and the HA mtl chapter.

the above came from irish oc thread. i am trying to find article that this relates to from lapresse or the jdm. thus far can only find 2023 article from the gazzette, alas behind a paywall.

https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/local-crime/article55497.html

might work.

MONTREAL CRIME Man tied to West End Gang sentenced for possessing gun and cocaine By Paul Cherry July 07, 2023 4:56 PM

A man known to police in the past as an enforcer for the West End Gang received a three-year sentence at the Montreal courthouse Friday after he pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm and cocaine while police tried to figure out why he was acting as a bodyguard for organized crime figures last year. Lawrence Cooney, 54, of Verdun, was arrested last summer following an investigation by the Montreal police organized crime division.

“They were following up on information that Mr. Cooney was acting as a bodyguard,” prosecutor Philippe Vallières-Roland told Quebec Court Judge Jean-Jacques Gagné after Cooney pleaded guilty to a series of charges. Investigators followed Cooney on three different dates during June and July 2022 and found he did appear to be acting as a bodyguard. “He was wearing a man purse while he was around people associated with organized crime. With that in mind the police obtained a search warrant for his Volkswagen Golf and also at his place. They found a loaded firearm. They also found seven grams of cocaine inside the car and $1,595 in cash in different areas.” Defence lawyer Dominique Shoofey told the judge that he and the prosecutor reached a plea agreement based on a constitutional issue involving the search of Cooney’s home, the poor conditions detainees are currently experiencing at the Montreal Detention Centre and his client’s criminal record. “This is not Mr. Cooney’s first day in court,” Shoofey said. Cooney’s criminal past includes a three-year prison sentence in 2013 after he pleaded guilty to extortion and assault causing bodily harm. On April 12, 2012, a compulsive gambler was called to a bar in LaSalle, known at the time for being a West End Gang hangout, to discuss a $20,000 poker debt he owed to another man. When he arrived, he was invited into the kitchen, where he was beaten by Cooney and two other men who kicked and punched him. Cooney used a wooden meat tenderizer to deliver severe blows to the man’s back, breaking three of his ribs. He also threatened to pour boiling oil on the victim. On Friday, Cooney pleaded guilty to the simple possession of cocaine, possession of a loaded and prohibited firearm and possessing a firearm while he was prohibited from doing so. In 2011, a judge issued an order prohibiting Cooney from possessing a firearm for the rest of his life. The order was part of a sentence received after Cooney pleaded guilty to six counts of assault. Gagné agreed with a joint recommendation that Cooney be sentenced to a three-year prison term and pay a $1,000 fine. With time served factored in, he still has 18 months left to serve. Cooney’s ties to the West End Gang date back to the 1990s, when he was a bouncer at the Do Drop In, a bar in Pointe-St-Charles that police believed was controlled by the West End Gang. In 2006, the Régie des alcools revoked the bar’s liquor licence, in part because the Montreal police believed Cooney was involved in a violent conflict to control drug trafficking in Pointe-St-Charles. The police made the request to shut down the bar after someone tried to kill Cooney on April 1, 2005, near the Do Drop In. Cooney was wounded and Alexandre Desmarais, another person who frequented the bar, was killed. At the time, police were certain that Cooney was the actual target of the shooting.

In June 2003, another attempt was made on Cooney’s life when someone shot him six times in Châteauguay.

^^^^
Here's a PressReader link in case anyone wants to bookmark the article:

https://pressreader.com/article/281479280876363