Why would he run? Him and Stefano are the powers to be in Montreal. With that comes big money. It wasn't like Leonardo was some innocent dude who had never been involved with his father. Why would you bring Vito up when talking about the suffering? They had it made under Vito and he didn't get killed by anyone.



I could have saved them a lot of time

Yes, Vito was such a power that he couldn't keep his son, his father and his brother-in-law from getting killed. What a success story. You're the man, you are just so plugged in down there in Bama, what other words of hick wisdom do you have to share?

Here come the dumbasses!

Never said I was plugged in you dipshit, but it's painfully obvious Silva wasn't going to roll over. Is that enough "hick wisdom" for your dumbass?

And do you have anything to add other than you taking shots at about everyone in this thread? It's idiots like you that have destroyed this site

Stop being such a fan boy /wannabe and no one will bother you. Maybe you can get together with some of the Philly posters and you could show them your Rizzuto shrine and they can show you their Merlino shrine.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...n-has-spent-much-of-his-life-behind-bars

Alleged Montreal hit man has spent much of his life behind bars

Link below is to French-language article (which some of you may not be even be able to open):

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...BtRdee2M2sOEbNoGFkvWQ-HRrdc1-F_f93eDiV5s

Translation (using Google Translate):

Laval mafioso claims $ 426,000 to the government.
He sued prison authorities for illegal detentions.

ÉRIC THIBAULT
Le Journal de Montréal
Friday, March 1, 2019 8:34 pm
UPDATE Friday, March 1, 2019 8:34 pm

Mafioso Francesco Del Balso claims nearly half a million dollars to the federal correctional service for "illegally" incarcerating him after the murders of two of his acolytes.

In his lawsuit filed Wednesday in Superior Court, Del Balso wants neither more nor less than a compensation of $ 4000 for each of the 94 days of "illegal detention" which he says he has served in 2016. He also claims $ 50,000 in " punitive damages "for a total of $ 426,000.

The 48-year-old Lavallois was one of the leaders of the Rizzuto clan pinned in Operation Colisée RCMP in 2006. He was sentenced to 15 years for cocaine trafficking and gangsterism.

His associates Lorenzo Giordano and Rocco Sollecito had also been sentenced to long sentences as a result of this investigation.

In February 2016, Del Balso was released on statutory release after serving two-thirds of his sentence, although under the responsibility of Correctional Service Canada (CSC) until the expiry of the sentence in September 2019.

For his security

The following month, Giordano, also on parole and then considered an aspiring mobster godfather, was shot dead in Laval.

CSC immediately suspended the release of Del Balso, who returned to the penitentiary. This decision was taken to ensure his safety.

However, "ensuring the protection of an offender on statutory release is not grounds for reincarceration" under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, according to his lawyer. "The plaintiff had not violated any condition of his statutory release and was therefore legally entitled to remain at liberty," said Rita Magloé Francis in the lawsuit. Recognized for his fiery temper, the ex-strongman of the Rizzuto clan was able to leave the penitentiary in the spring.

But the scenario was repeated when Rocco Sollecito, a former partner of Del Balso in illegal betting and then acting head of the mafia, was riddled with bullets in turn, May 27, 2016 in Laval.

Del Balso had been taken back to prison, again for his own safety, as the authorities feared he would be "next on the list".

- His release was suspended on two other occasions, through his fault. Notably in October 2018 for his threats against a journalist from our Investigation Bureau, which earned him 30 days in prison. He has been free since January.

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2019/03/06/un-pret-signe-pour-un-mafieux

A loan signed for the mafia.
Edmondo Marandola, economist at Otéra Capital, served as representative for the boss Giuseppe Focarazzo.

A senior member of the Caisse de depot represented a high-ranking mafia official in a private loan.

See Ciment's post immediately above -- he posted a link before I did below; different link but same article.

Link below is to French-language article about Giuseppe Focarazzo. Some of you might recall his name on a list of wedding guests who attended the wedding reception in Montreal last December for Hells Angel Martin Robert and Annie Arbic. Focarazzo was sitting at a table with Antonio Pietrantonio and other Italians in Quebec considered affiliated with the Montreal Mafia. At the same table was Tony Iavarone of Ontario, brother of the murdered Al Iavarone who was killed last September.

https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2019/03/06/un-pret-signe-pour-un-mafieux-1

Translation (using Google Translate):

A loan signed for a mafia
By Hugo Joncas, Philippe Langlois, Andrea Valeria and Félix Séguin and Jean-François Cloutier
Published on March 6, 2019 at 4:23 am

A senior member of the Caisse de depot represented a high-ranking mafia official in a private loan while working for Quebecers' wool stockings, our Investigation Bureau discovered.

This frame is the economist Edmondo Marandola. It was he who was suspended on February 19 by the Caisse's real estate financing subsidiary, Otéra Capital, when he learned in Le Journal that he was running a real estate developer at the same time.

Our research on him continued. We discovered that even though he has been bankrupt since 2006, Edmondo Marandola continued to be involved in several financial transactions with businessmen.

Among them is Giuseppe Focarazzo, one of the leaders of Italian organized crime in Montreal.

Notarized loan

In March 2015, Edmondo Marandola signed for him a notarized loan of $ 110,000, according to the land register.

This loan was secured by the mock manor du Pegriot, an opulent residence in Mascouche, in the North Shore of Montreal, valued at nearly $ 700,000.

The money from this private loan went in part to the contractor responsible for the renovations on the Focarazzo house, but $ 5,000 also landed in the pockets of Edmondo Marandola, according to copies of checks that our office obtained. 'investigation.

The documents consulted do not explain why Mr. Marandola represented the Mafioso in this transaction.

The two men did not call back to answer our questions.

Other mafia links

Edmondo Marandola is the second executive of the Caisse de dépôt to be directly or indirectly related to the Montreal Mafia.

We asked Otéra Capital if Mr. Marandola had disclosed to his employer the transaction he had made in the name of Giuseppe Focarazzo.

Otéra's spokesperson, Mélanie Charbonneau, merely recalled that he was suspended for an independent investigation and that the results of this investigation would be made public.

Mr. Marandola is also in the sights of the Royal Bank. Two weeks ago, the financial institution seized its shares in a retirement home project, after learning in our pages about its involvement in the project.

The suspended framework owes more than half a million dollars to the Royal Bank. He is still not released from bankruptcy, which dates back to 2006.

Still the mafia

This is the second time in a month that a manager of Otéra Capital, a subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt, is closely related to the mafia.

At the beginning of February, our Investigation Office revealed that Martine Gaudreault, Vice President of Otéra, is in a relationship with Alain Cormier, a private lender long associated with the Rizzuto clan.

Cormier notably held a company for four years with Leonardo Rizzuto, the son of the former godfather of the Montreal mafia Vito Rizzuto (now deceased). Giovanna Cammalleri, the wife of Vito Rizzuto, was also a shareholder in this firm.

Martine Gaudreault has been involved in three businesses with her spouse since 2012. He stated that Ms. Gaudreault was not aware of her business relationship.

The V.-P. of Otéra was suspended following our article.

At the head of a mafia group

Giuseppe "Joey Gator" 43-year-old Focarazzo is leading a small group of mafia gangs who are particularly well connected to the Hells Angels, according to police sources. He also attended the wedding full patch Martin Robert in downtown Montreal last October.

Since the Coliseum survey in the 2000s, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) considered him a money collector of the Rizzuto clan.

A photographer from QMI Agency also shot him at the funeral of mafioso Rocco Sollecito in June 2016.

In December 2017, one of Giuseppe Focarazzo's numbered companies sold a condo in Repentigny to Giovanna Camalleri, the widow of former godfather Vito Rizzuto.

The Focarazzo company had seized an individual who had not been able to repay his loan, granted 57% interest per year. This rate is a hair's breadth away from the 60% that the Criminal Code considers a usurious rate.

Under surveillance

"Joey Gator" has been on the radar of RCMP investigators since the mid-2000s.

On August 20, 2006, officers observed her at the Laennec bar in Laval, one of the mafia's main haunts at the time, according to an overview of the evidence presented in September 2012 to the Charbonneau commission on contracts in construction.

That day, Focarazzo came to find especially Francesco Del Balso, a high ranking heavily involved in the financial operations of the Rizzuto clan.

The police officers were able to observe them "handling handguns," according to the evidence.

"They discuss firearms types and caliber and seem to compare their weapons," the federal police wrote.

The criminal record of Giuseppe Focarazzo is still light. In July 2004, he was fined and sentenced to two years for extortion, death threats or injuries, and for being in a vehicle carrying a prohibited weapon.

- With the collaboration of Éric Thibault

^^^^
Interesting tweet reply by Paul Manning re: Tony Iavarone:

https://twitter.com/mobinfiltrator/status/1103284706018091009

Paul Manning @mobinfiltrator

Replying to @CdnOrgC

Tony still off the map and missing, apparently.

8:22 AM - 6 Mar 2019

Interesting tweet. Will see where all this may lead to !

Jesus..another hit in Laval.

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...-lentree-de-cour-de-sa-residence-a-laval

^^^^
The victim is John Danny Elias Espinal.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...eurtre-a-laval-la-victime-identifiee.php

You guys think that the Cuntrera Caruana clan is more on the side of the Ontario Calabres ( Coluccio Clan and other) or more with the Sicilians from Montreal?

And you think the Cuntrera Caruana Clan ist still one of the Richest and most Powerful Italian Mafia Organization in North America and the World, or is the best time of the clan over and others have more power and money today?

Pasquale Cuntrera is probably retired he´s about 84 now. Alfonso Caruana is still in prison. You have the younger generations like Poncho and Big Joe still around, but they don´t have the same influence as their fathers.

I think Poncho followed in his father's footsteps, taking over his old crew and becoming one of the so called leaders of the Montreal Mafia. The Cuntreras in Montreal are probably not part of the group in Ontario. Montreal has historically been LCN turf while Toronto belongs to the Italian mafias, at least nowadays.

I'm inclined to believe the Cuntreras in Ontario have been on the fence at the very least. It also now seems the putch against the rogue Rizzuto group came from within LCN while the Toronto Calabrians were only peripherally involved.

I think nowadays the Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan is enjoying the sheer amount of profits once made with drugs and has invested it in real estate and other legal ventures while taking a low profile.

LCN and sicilian Cosa Nostra are seperate groups but the Rizzutos are in a way more Zips.

Here's what I can't figure out: Who in the Bonannos back in NY was supporting Sal Montagna and his fight against the Rizzuto's? Asaro? The Grimaldi's?

You guys think the Ndrangheta (Siderno Group) in Canada today is stronger and more active in drug trafficking than the Cuntrera Caruana clan?

I have read some articles. Giuseppe Coluccio and Giuseppe Big Joe Cuntrera were business partners.

Which of these two do you think is more powerful? Aquino-Coluccio Clan or Cuntrera Caruana Clan?

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...use-incapable-de-continuer-le-proces.php

Hillside Coffee Murder: Defendant Unable to Continue Trial

One of the two men accused of killing an innocent client in a café on Fleury Street in 2016, because they would have mistaken him for a mafioso, can not continue to stand trial with his co-accused because of health problems.

Since January, Jeff Joubens Theus and Ebamba Ndutu Lufiau have been jointly tried by jury for the murder of Angelo D'Onofrio, a client who was peacefully seated at Hillside Cafe, in the north of the city.

The prosecution's thesis is that the two accused wanted to kill Antonio Vanelli, a member of the mafia who regularly attended the establishment.

Client Angelo D'Onofrio physically resembled the mafia, but he had nothing to do with him, he was not known to the police and he had no criminal background. A gunman entered the cafe, shot Mr. D'Onofrio, shot him dead and fled.

Investigators from the SPVM homicide section determined that Theus was the gunman and Lufiau the driver who had driven him there before and after the murder.

On Monday, however, Judge Daniel Royer told the jury that Lufiau could not continue to stand trial for the moment. "He may have had a stroke," said the magistrate, adding that the medical opinions received about him indicated that he was not fit to continue the hearings.

His trial was therefore separated from that of Theus and postponed.

Listening

An SPVM investigator, David Desrochers, yesterday recounted how police officers had been watching Theus' conversations during the investigation.

Whenever new information about the case was made public or a member of his entourage was questioned by the police, Theus multiplied the frantic conversations with his brother or friends. These conversations were intercepted by the police.

He made several calls to know how to renew his emergency passport in order to leave the country. He called a girl to tell him that he had to see her in person to discuss something very important that we can not talk on the phone, or even on Snapchat, he said.

Shortly before his arrest, he also questioned how the police could have identified him as a suspect.

"Who has been talking? We'll never know, "he told another suspect in an intercepted conversation that was presented to the jurors on Monday.

The alleged murderer of the co-owner and a manager of a bar of nude dancers from the Montérégie was filmed with his co-accused buying the same rope that was used to tie the bodies of the victims.

Giuseppe de Leto is accused of the premeditated murders of Martin Bélair and his wife Nancy Beaulieu who were working at Cabaret Flamingo in Saint-Hyacinthe.

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2019/03/11/filmes-en-train-dacheter-ce-qui-aurait-servi-au-crime

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...-a-rencontre-le-mafioso-tony-vanelli.php

A few hours after the murder of an innocent client, Angelo D'Onofrio, at the Hillside café in Montreal on June 2, 2016, the police met the mafioso Antonio Vanelli to inform him that the murderer had mistaken a target and that he was the intended person.

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2019/03/13/des-montrealais-accuses-de-fraude-seront-extrades

Montrealers accused of fraud will be extradited.
The group reportedly drew a total of $ 1.35 million from several Americans

Six Montrealers accused of taking $ 1.35 million from Americans to believe they won the lottery will be extradited to the United States, where they face decades of prison.

"The handcuffs are too tight," complained Sebastiano Joseph Torino when he was detained yesterday at the courthouse in Montreal.

At 57, Torino is one of the youngest among the six accused in this "lottery fraud" affair. Itcace Abramovici, Micheal Dissos, Konstantinos Filippas, Michael Pare and Reouven Dreiblatt are between 54 and 73 years old.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/five-montreal-men-detained-while-they-challenge-extradition-order

Five Montreal men detained while they challenge extradition order

Tensions high when alleged Montreal Mafia member learned he was target of hit

https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...fia-member-learned-he-was-target-of-hit/

Linguini restaurant site being cleared years after burning down

https://globalnews.ca/news/5061458/baie-durfe-linguini-site-cleared/

Acquittement de Leonardo Rizzuto: la poursuite fait appel d'un jugement

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...la-poursuite-fait-appel-dun-jugement.php

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/un-montrealais-tue-en-republique-dominicaine

An italian linked to the mafia and the hells got killed in the DR.

Mike was linked to Liborio Cuntrera.