I am not from Hamilton or the surrounding area. You and everyone else should put more stock into what posters from Hamilton write rather than what I write.

Most of the articles about the Musitanos that have been published since their release in 2006 have been about the hitman they hired in 1997. A few of the articles have been about Angelo's arrest for 1) an alleged parole violation some five months after he and Pat were finally released from jail, and 2) Angelo's subsequent relatively quick statutory release after the National Parole Board determined there wasn't enough evidence of Angelo's supposed breach(es). Bear in mind that one of Angelo's parole conditions was that he could not have any contact with Pat unless special permission was granted; however, Angelo's alleged violation was having contact with other criminals in Hamilton and the surrounding area.

At the time Angelo was picked up in or around March 2007, law enforcement cited his arrest was made, in part, because of a spate of violence related to illegal gambling machines--Angelo was said to have an "indirect" connection to this.

My opinion?

I think that despite their being wealthy (a guest at Pat's wedding told me there were between 1,000 and 1,100 guests in attendance) and despite the brothers' imprisonment for a stretch, the Musitano group is very likely still involved in illegal gambling, loansharking, and, quite possibly and importantly, corruption in the construction industry--the latter is an issue that law enforcement and some organized-crime writers such as Antonio Nicaso and Rob Lamberti have tried to get across to anyone who will listen because they all think that the problem in Ontario rivals that in Quebec.

While Pat and Angelo were in jail, Francesco Arcadi was, without being named in an article that came out in July 2006, identified as someone who had friendly ties to a longstanding Hamilton mob group, which was also not named. It was not difficult to figure out that Arcadi had ties to the Musitanos, as friendly ties with the other crime groups in Hamilton did not make sense [although we would later learn in Business or Blood that Arcadi met with Paolo Violi's sons in 2005 (2006?]. Incidentally, an Italian document I have read states that Francesco Arcadi has a brother-in-law in Italy whose surname is Musitano--this brother-in-law probably has no connection at all to the Hamilton-based Musitanos, but I thought this worth mentioning, as Arcadi seemed to have a role as a liaison between the Musitanos and Vito Rizzuto.

Remember, as well, that in the aforementioned book, mention is made that some of those in attendance at Vito's funeral were "members of the old Cotroni family and the Ontario 'ndrangheta." Given one of the main arguments in the book is that some key figures in the Toronto-area Siderno Group were behind part of the mayhem in Montreal, I would bet money that representatives from the Musitano group attended that funeral, as attendance by members of the Luppino-Violi group is automatically ruled out.