Montreal Construction entrepreneur Tony Magi was found shot to death at a construction site on Beaconsfield Street in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. He was shot several times in the head and upper body according to reports. Magi has long-standing ties to the Rizzuto crime family and was once partners with Vito Rizzuto and his son Nick Rizzuto … [Read more…]
Bad Blood a six-part series tells the story of former Montreal Godfather Vito Rizzuto and the powerful Rizzuto crime family. The Mafia series is based on the best selling book written by Peter Edwards and Antonio Nicaso called Business or Blood: Vito Rizzuto’s Last War. Actor Anthony LaPaglia plays the role of Vito Rizzuto with … [Read more…]
Ducarme Joseph was found shot to death on the streets of Montreal hit several times in the upper body. Joseph was the founder of the Montreal street gang called the 67s street gang and was considered by police to be the most influential and powerful street gang leader in the city with a long criminal record. … [Read more…]
Secret wiretap recordings recently heard by the Charbonneau Commission a Quebec corruption inquiry unveiled links between the Rizzuto crime family including its former deceased boss Vito Rizzuto and construction kingpin Tony Magi among others. Some of the conversations involve the transforming of a industrial building at 1000 de la Commune in Montreal into modern … [Read more…]
The reign of the Rizzuto crime family over the Montreal Mafia may be coming to an end as the Rizzuto’s have seen their ranks severely depleted over last few years. The death of its once all powerful boss Vito Rizzuto may have been the final step in the crime families fall from power. The … [Read more…]
Funeral services are being held today for former Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto in Little Italy at Notre-Dame-de-la-Defence Church. This historic church is also where funerals were held for Vito’s son Nick Rizzuto Jr and father Nicolo Rizzuto after both were assassinated. Mr Rizzuto passed away due to complications from lung cancer at the … [Read more…]
The passing of Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto is thought by many to make the end of an era in the Montreal underworld. Vito was by all accounts an old school mob boss who had build the crime family previously run by his father into an international power. He was known for being a … [Read more…]
Montreal Mafia boss and leader of the Rizzuto crime family Vito Rizzuto died from a lung ailment in a Montreal hospital. Vito was released from a U.S. prison last year after serving 10 years for racketeering which included his part in the murders of three Bonanno family captain of the New York Mafia in … [Read more…]
It has been a year since Vito Rizzuto has returned to the streets of Montreal doing so in the middle of a Mafia war that targeted the Rizzuto crime family. He has since taken back the reigns of the Montreal underworld bringing renewed peace between the opposing factions according to mafia experts in Canada. … [Read more…]
Reputed Montreal mafia godfather Vito Rizzuto has settled into a new home in St-Dorothee in western Laval outside of Montreal. The lavish new home was purchased under the name of Vito’s wife Giovanna Cammalleri for a reported $874,000 and is near the Islesmere Golf Club a game Rizzuto has been known to enjoy. Vito’s … [Read more…]
Montreal mafia clan leader Giuseppe De Vito also known as “ponytail” was found unconscious in his prison cell at Donnacona Prison before being taken to a local Quebec hospital where his death was later announced. De Vito is believed to have been a close ally of fellow Montreal mobster Raynald Desjardins who led a … [Read more…]
Authorities in Quebec have charged Pietro Magistrale for his alleged role in the mob hit of former mafia boss Salvatore Montagna. Montagna was the former boss of the New York based Bonanno crime family before being deported back to Canada. Police believe that Montagna aligned himself with mobster Raynald Desjardins among others in a … [Read more…]
The efforts by enemies of the Rizzuto crime family to wrestle away control of Montreal mafia in a bloody Montreal Mafia war while mob boss Vito Rizzuto was imprisoned seem to have failed according to crime experts. Since Vito Rizzuto was released from prison in the U.S. after a ten-year term and returned to Canada … [Read more…]
Another Rizzuto family mobster is back on the streets of Montreal with the recent release of Domenico Manno. Manno is the uncle of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto and was a key player in helping the Rizzuto crime family take power in the late 1970’s. He was allegedly involved in the hit on Calabrian … [Read more…]
Vito Rizzuto is not only officially back in Montreal according to sources but he may be preparing to do battle. Rizzuto has moved into a downtown apartment that is now heavily guarded according to law enforcement and he has also acquired a $100,000 armored vehicle to travel in. Rizzuto has now been sighted in … [Read more…]