Hello guys, i have been out for a while and did not make any update for my charts. But a while ago i got a request to make a Rizzuto Family chart, Caramela77 has made that request and has contributed information and pictures. Of course i am not an expert on the Rizzuto family, so it may hafe errors. So any feedback is appreciated. Enjoy:
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s147/mukremin/RizzutoCrimeFamily.jpg

are not di maulo's and controni's part of the rizzuto family?

Wow...no wonder the Calabrians are taking over. Who wouldn't?

BTW. Pietro Scarcella? Isn't he supposed to be a LCN boss in Toronto?

Good job Caramela and Mukremin! though I have seen some sources say there may still be 50-60 Rizzuto's around...

I think Del Balso was just a lieutenant or a high ranking soldier. Vito's underboss could have likely been Joe Di Maulo, Francesco Arcadi or Agostino [BadWord]. It was presumed that Agostino [BadWord] acted as boss when Vito was sent to prison.

Moreno Gallo and Tony Mucci likely could have been lieutenants.

Thanks guys! Keep the feedback coming, we will adjust it here and there.

I found an interesting article:

http://www.nicaso.com/pages/doc_page246.html

And maybe this could help:

http://www.streetgangs.com/billboard/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=40597

Sonny Black your right it was tough because Agostino [BadWord] was a Capo then became underboss and was killed. I never heard of Arcadi becoming anything higher then Capo rank. Scarcella was at one time a part of Rizzuto family but, I assumed he still never stopped associating with the Rizuuto's. What confuses me is guys like the Di Maulo brothers strong supporters of Cotroni/Violi then worked for Rizzuto I didnt have Mukremin place them on the list because, I feared there loyalty was not true to Rizzuto's meaning they might be in this fiasco for the control of the family with always having alternative motives like Desjardins another Cotroni/Violi supporter who shifted being brother in law to one of the Di Maulo brothers. Guys please send names and or comments to help complete this chart, I am so grateful to Mukremin for doing this...


Mucci and Gallo are only being mentioned as soldiers and Gallo to me seems like a Consiglieri even though at the time Renda was until he went MIA but in reality I believe these two men to be earners and not more then soldiers due to lack of evidence.

Sonny on the bottom article I got allot of the names for this chart from this link you submitted but have to say a few of the names for example like Willie Obront and espescially the Hitman Real Simard where not part of Rizzuto but agaisnt them. Real Simard did contract hits agaisnt the Rizzuto family before becoming a Govt. witness.

It seems that a lot of things are still unknown in the Rizzuto family, who is who. So this chart is more hard to make then lets say a New York family chart. But we are getting close

mukremin , I counted ten capos, why are they marked with only 30 men of honor ?

Mukrenim, it's been explained by Lamothe on the real deal forum that the Rizzutos don't have a traditional hierarchy like the New York families, so making a chart based on such a hierarchy would be difficult.

If you want, I can pm you the link to the topic in which it's explained.

is constantin alevizos greek or italian?

Isn't Joe Lopresti dead? didn't he get whacked in 92'?

I have made updates and sent them to Mukremin such as Joe LoPriesti and yes he was killed handled by George Sciascia in 92. Also sent him photos of Scarcella, Joe Di Maulo, Raynard Desjardins, Juan "Joe Bravo" Fernandez. We know there is more made men in the Rizzuto family just getting the smaller players names and photos are a challenge the chart obviously is a work in progress and is cool to see the top players and connect the dots. So it would be great if people contribute to help fill in those holes. I agree that there must be at least 50+ made men to have so many known higher ups in the family.

Yes Alevizos and Fernandez are Spanish but used as muscle.

other names that should be on there are

Domenico Manno, Frank campoli, Alfonso Caruana, Giacinto Arcuri, also Gerlando Sciascia should be on there too no?

I can see that Manno was a part of the Caruana/Cutrera clan and yes old George from Canada shold be too as well why not...

I'm glad you guys took the initiative to do this as it will be great to have a somewhat correct chart of the rizzuto clan.

Sonny Black here is the article why Del Balso was considered the underboss after he went to jail Cu#trera took over and was killed in 2010.


GangstersInc - March 6, 2007 11:47 AM (GMT)
Suspected Mafia underboss boasts of $1-billion sports betting network

WILLIAM MARSDEN, The Gazette
Published: Tuesday, March 06, 2007

An alleged Mafia underboss was running a sport bookmaking syndicate through which almost $500 million flowed in a period of only 11 months.

Police say Francesco del Balso, 36, ran 25 bookmaking operations in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto that del Balso himself boasted did more than $1 billion in business.

In Quebec, del Balso and his partner Lorenzo Giordano, 43, operated Internet and telephone sports gambling out of houses in Kahnawake, Montreal and Laval.

According to newly released court documents, the bookmaking shop in Kahnawake did $391.9 million in business from December 2004 to November 2005.

Of that amount, the gamblers lost $165,469,210 and won $147,829,478, according to an accounting study made by gambling expert Andy Durno.

All the bets were made through a website called World Sport Centre (betwsc.com).

Police say del Balso paid out $750,000 in operating costs, leaving him with a profit of about $17 million.

Many of the bettors were given lines of credit and codes with which to make their bets online. Del Balso had his finger on every aspect of the business.

Del Balso controlled the books, recovered money from losers and paid off winners, established credit margins and decided who was allowed to place bets and get credit, police say.

Collecting from losers was often the hardest job. Del Balso complained that while he paid his winners immediately, losers generally took some persuasion.

Wiretaps picked up del Balso griping about gambler Stewart (Stuey) Goldstein, who apparently owed del Balso $1.6 million.

"I am gonna have to go break his head," del Balso told two friends on Sept. 2, 2004.

Another gambler named "Dino" owed $100,000 and del Balso told him on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006, that he wanted his money by the weekend. Dino replied that del Balso owed him $17,000 and still hadn't paid, which angered del Balso.

"Bro, there's no f-----g book in the city that doesn't belong to me, you know that. ... I have a f-----g book that's worth $50 million and you're telling me about $17,000. But you know how much we take? A billion dollars in action. You think I'm a f-----g clown or something, bro? I built a f-----g empire. What are you talking about 17 dimes ($17,000)? I spit on 17 dimes."

Dino: "I never called you a clown."

Del Balso: "I'm going to send my partner Lorenzo (Giordano) to talk to you. What the f---. Bring my f-----g money to me by the end of the week. I don't want to hear no story."

Del Balso himself was a compulsive gambler who dropped millions of dollars at the Montreal Casino.

He even played his own book and at one point had trouble making a $1,000 telephone bet on a St. Louis Rams football game because his clerks claimed they didn't know who he was.

"What's the password?" the clerk asked him.

"What password? It's me TT221," del Balso replied.

"Who is it?" the clerk asked.

An impatient del Balso replied: "It's the owner, Frank. Jesus Christ."

The documents indicate del Balso and Giordano worried they had too much cash.

"The cash, you can't do nothing, bro," del Balso said.

"It's worth dick, man," Giordano replied. "I wake up screaming in the middle of the night, bro."

Del Balso tried to launder millions of dollars through the casino, but kept losing money.

As one of the casino's high rollers, from 1996 to 2004, he bought $8.6 million in chips, but got back only $2.5 million in cheques.

Most of the balance he appears to have lost at the gaming tables.

Police charged del Balso and Giordano last November with drug trafficking, illegal gambling, money laundering and gangsterism. They were part of a takedown of 91 alleged Mafia members.

Giordano also faces an attempted murder charge.

Del Balso is in jail awaiting trial, while Giordano is a fugitive.

wmarsden@thegazette.canwest.com

Mukremin add Frank Campoli as an associate he was Vito's man in Ontario. Also Alfonso Caruana, Giacinto Arcuri, and Guiseppe Battista as associates.

Just because one article states that Del Balso was an alleged underboss doesn't mean that he actually was. Most people don't know that much about the Rizzutos' organizational structure. Except Lamothe's explanation all we have are speculations.

Well i have made an update, maybe in the next version i will delete the CAPO/Soldier notification since they dont have a traditional mafia hierarchy. Its indeed very hard because the family is crumbling, and some guys who are taking over have been put beneath Salvatore. Other people have been added by request, take a look and feel free to post comment.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s147/mukremin/RizzutoCrimeFamily-1.jpg

by the way, it could be that i missed some things. But sometimes it just gets to messy lol

Nice chart as always Mukrenim. But I disagree with you on certain things.

Like I said, Arcadi took over the day to day operation when Rizzuto was sent to prison. I'm pretty sure Arcadi was Rizzuto's second in command, not Del Balso. You shouldn't take just one article that states Del Balso was 'an underboss' too serious. There are numerous articles that state that Arcadi was in fact Rizzuto's number two man. And after Arcadi was sent to prison, it was thought that Cun-trera (bypassing the stupid badword thing) took over as 'acting boss'.

And Di Maulo was always considered to be a powerhouse in the Calabrian faction and also in Rizzuto's organization. He would definitely have been as high as a lieutenant.

Desjardins apparantly always had a lot of clout as he was close to Di Maulo. But he could only have been an 'associate' because he isn't Italian.

If you show this at the real deal forum, others will probably tell you the same.

Here is another article that Police are speculating Arcadi may be the runner up for replacing Vito as boss and it mentions Del Balso as well as a higher up Lt. This chart is hard to do, I agree so many speculations and possibilities and yes Desjardins is only a associate. Nobody really knows 100% the structure exactly.





Mob takes a hit

February 15, 2009 by The Boss · Leave a Comment

The Mafia can no longer feel comfortable in Montreal, police say after completing a massive operation that targeted the alleged heads of the criminal organization.

Among the 90 people arrested or sought on warrants yesterday morning was Nicolo (Nick) Rizzuto, 82, father of Vito Rizzuto, 60, the reputed head of the Mafia in Montreal.

Another alleged Mafia leader arrested was Paolo Renda, 65, Vito Rizzuto’s brother-in-law.

The organization is alleged to have infiltrated Trudeau airport to import cocaine.

When Nicolo Rizzuto was escorted to RCMP headquarters, he was wearing a fedora and smiled at photographers and television cameras.

More than 700 police officers took part in the investigation, dubbed Project Colisee. As of yesterday evening, 73 people had been arrested, including one person in Toronto and another in Halifax.

By 9:30 last night, 37 people had been arraigned. Most were refused bail and were detained in Bordeaux jail. They are to return to court Monday for bail hearings. Others were released on $1,000 bail and such conditions as surrendering their passports, not communicating with their co-accused and not possessing any weapons.

The rest were also held at Bordeaux jail and are to be arraigned today.

Canada, and more specifically Montreal, has long been criticized as harbouring Mafia figures who operate on an international level with seeming impunity. Those days are over, RCMP Superintendent Richard Guay said yesterday.

“Thanks to our investigators, we have penetrated the heart of this organization,” he said.

“The techniques we were able to use as part of the investigation let us gather evidence in places where this criminal organization felt free to talk and act on their criminal activities.”

Project Colisee “surpassed all expectations,” Guay added.

“We were able to pierce through this group of criminals where they felt safe.”

Francesco Arcadi, 53, was arrested at a country cottage early yesterday. Handcuffed and sporting a camouflage jacket, he was led into RCMP headquarters in Westmount.

Police sources have been saying Arcadi was one of a few men favoured to eventually replace Vito Rizzuto – extradited to the United States this year to face racketeering charges – as head of the Montreal Mafia.

Renda, Arcadi, Nicolo Rizzuto and three other men are considered the key players targeted in Project Colisee.

They are described by the RCMP as being part of a criminal organization whose primary activities are the smuggling and exportation of drugs, as well as bookmaking and extortion.

The charges filed at the Montreal courthouse allege the men took part in criminal conspiracies that spanned several countries, including Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico and Haiti.

“We think it is a very serious blow to Italian organized crime,” RCMP Cpl. Luc Bessette said.

“The work of the RCMP in Quebec specializes in targeting all the members of an organization. We target the problems and not the symptoms,” Bessette said.

The operation was one of the “most significant” in the history of organized crime in Canada, Bessette said later.

Also targeted were two agents with the Canada Border Services Agency and about 10 employees of airline and food-service companies based at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Dorval.

Bessette said those people are suspected of helping the Mafia smuggle cocaine into Canada through the airport.

Some of the people rounded up yesterday face charges of bribing the two customs agents.

Marilyn Beliveau, 27, of Montreal, and Nancy Cedeno, 32, of Laval, face charges alleging they accepted bribes while working for the Border Services Agency.

One of the women is in custody and the other is at large, authorities said yesterday, but they did not elaborate.

Neither woman works for the customs agency anymore, Border Services spokesperson Amelie Morin said yesterday.

The RCMP yesterday arrested one female agent employed at Trudeau airport.

An arrest warrant is out for the other female agent, who worked at one of the agency’s offices in Montreal.

“Obviously, these two individuals no longer exercise their functions” with Border Services, Morin said.

“These are rare cases and, of course, it’s a very serious matter for us,” she said. “We do have 7,200 Border Services officers across Canada who perform their job with integrity and professionalism.”

Of the 1,843 customs agents employed in Quebec, 306 work at Trudeau airport. Details about the two agents are to be provided at an RCMP news conference today at 2 p.m., Morin said.

The police investigation also targeted another criminal organization that was smuggling marijuana into the United States through the Akwesasne reserve, which straddles Quebec, Ontario and New York state.

“Speaking geographically, it is very difficult to manage that area” against criminal organizations, Bessette said.

The investigation was headed by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit – led by the RCMP and composed of investigators from various police forces – which specifically targets organized crime. The Surete du Quebec, Montreal police and Laval police took part carrying out search and arrest warrants yesterday.

“Partnership is essential in this type of operation. We can’t do investigations like this without partners,” Bessette said.

Guy Ouellette, a retired Surete du Quebec investigator and an expert on biker gangs, compared yesterday’s roundup with one that shut down the Hells Angels’ Nomads chapter five years ago.

“It is as important as Operation Springtime 2001,” he said.

“They have arrested the heads of the Mafia (in Montreal), the decision makers.

“It is important because it is like shutting down the head office, much like the Hells Angels’ head office in Montreal was shut down in 2001.”

pcherry@thegazette.canwest.com

Drugs, arson, gambling, conspiracy, assault on kingpins’ game cards

Nicolo Rizzuto

Vito Rizzuto’s 82-year-old father first came to public attention during a 1975 provincial inquiry into organized crime. Rizzuto, who was born in Sicily, was alleged to have controlled a number of men of Sicilian origin who operated as a branch of the Cotroni family in Montreal.

The book The Sixth Family: The Collapse of the New York Mafia and the Rise of Vito Rizzuto portrays Nicolo Rizzuto as a cunning underworld figure who orchestrated the takeover of the Cotroni family.

Before yesterday’s arrest, the elder Rizzuto appeared to be immune to police investigations in Canada. But he did serve five years in prison in Venezuela between 1988 and 1993 after being convicted of cocaine possession. An undercover RCMP officer was later informed that Rizzuto was paroled early after an associate of the family delivered an $800,000 bribe to Venezuela.

Paolo Renda

Vito Rizzuto’s 65-year-old brother-in-law was his partner in a number of legitimate business interests for several years.

Renda’s only previous conviction came in 1972. He and Rizzuto were arrested in May 1968, after they set fire to Renda’s barber shop at a strip mall in Boucherville, apparently for insurance money. The arsonists ended up setting fire to themselves and firefighters found Renda and Rizzuto rolling around in the dirt trying to put out the flames.

Renda was a suspect in the January 1978 murder of Paolo Violi, the head of the Cotroni family. The murder is believed to be the turning point in the struggle between the Cotroni and Rizzuto families. Renda was named in a February 1978 arrest warrant in connection with the murder, but it was withdrawn seven months later. Other Rizzuto associates were convicted of the slaying.

Francesco Arcadi

Some police sources have speculated that the 53-year-old former Cotroni associate was a possible candidate to replace Vito Rizzuto as the reputed head of the Mafia in Montreal. This despite having only one conviction under his belt, for running an illegal gaming house.

Arcadi is mentioned often in an intelligence report the Montreal police filed in court a few years ago.

Police conducting surveillance often spotted Arcadi at Vito Rizzuto’s side while he attended weddings and funerals. Arcadi’s name also appears often among the charges filed yesterday in connection with Project Colisee. He is charged in some and named as a co-conspirator in others. That includes one charge that alleges some of the people arrested were involved in a bookmaking operation that extended from the Montreal area to the United States and Belize.

Rocco Sollecito

The 58-year-old was once linked to Vito Rizzuto through a stock exchange scam that eventually landed the reputed head of the Montreal Mafia in hot water with Revenue Canada.

Sollecito is also mentioned often in the Montreal police intelligence report on Rizzuto.

Police surveillance teams noted that he, Rizzuto and a few other suspected Montreal mobsters had travelled to Toronto together in 2000 to attend the funeral of a mob enforcer who was murdered.

His criminal record in Quebec

involves only minor run-ins with Revenue Quebec and Revenue Canada.

Lorenzo Giordano

The 43-year-old is described by police sources as an aggressive lieutenant in the Rizzuto organization.

Giordano was arrested and questioned this year as a suspect in the November 2005 assault on John Xanthoudakis, the chief executive officer of Norshield Financial Group. Montreal police suspected Giordano was attempting to collect money for people who lost funds in the money-management firm’s collapse.

Giordano was never charged in the incident, but he is currently accused of using a firearm to make Swiss cheese out of a car that was parked in front of the Cavilli restaurant on Peel St. on Aug. 23.

Besides being named in many of the criminal conspiracy charges filed yesterday, Giordano is accused of attempting to murder a man in Montreal on April 18, 2004.

Francesco Del Balso

The 36-year-old Laval resident was, like Giordano, arrested and questioned this year in connection with the 2005 assault on Xanthoudakis, but was not charged.

Del Balso’s home in Laval is the subject of a seizure order as the suspected proceeds of crime.

In 2001, he pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon and was sentenced to two years’ probation and ordered to do community service.

In 1992, he was charged in connection with an arson fire but was eventually cleared.

Despite his relatively young age, Del Balso was described as a key figure among the people arrested yesterday. He is charged with being part of the same criminal conspiracies as Nicolo Rizzuto.

canada.com/windsorstar/story.html?id=eecea7d4-54ca-4c44-9f6a-0c14876441b6

Del Balso and Giordano were actually lieutenants for Arcadi. Arcadi took over as boss when Vito went to jail and many blame him as being part of the Rizzuto downfall. Both Del Balso and Giordano were flashy, violent and brazen, causing the police to keep a close eye.

Arcadi like others, used to work under the Violi-Cotroni faction and then became a Rizzuto under-boss and street-boss. He was mainly responsible for keeping young men in check and collecting debts. He did most of the dirty work.

Thanks for the feedback, like i said i will remove the soldier capo listing because it is not the same as the new york families. I know that Di Maulo was a powerhouse and still is, dont be to serieus on the soldier/associate thing. What about Sal the iron worker? I followed the debate on Real Deal, lots of different scenarios. To be honest i am abit scared to put this on Real Deal

Meh, don't you worry about them. I got your back. Although, they just shanked me after 3 years, so I may not be that much help anymore.

haha those guys are real pieces of work thats for sure

Di Maulo married Dejardins sister. Both Di Maulo and Desjardins started off with the Cotroni-Violis in the 70s.

There are various recent article in local Quebec newspapers indicating that the Montreal Mafia is now controlled by a consortium of 3-4 different factions which answer to Ontario and NYC. The articles and police believe that Organized Crime in Montreal is now controlled or largely influenced by families in Ontario and NYC.

The Di Maulos, Mucci, Gallo, Volpato, Vanelli, Cotroni's belong mainly to the old Calabrian faction but were cohorts with the Rizzutos.

BTW.....how can one register on the real deal forum?....says invite only.

Whats this gay shit on the Real Deal Mafia forum no new registered users invite only wtf? That's weird