Rizzuto's

[Azure9920]

Moreno Gallo, named as an influential leader within the Montreal mafia, is begging the Canadian government not to deport him, and instead "extend (him) a second welcome," like the one he received when arriving here from Italy at age nine.

Despite incriminating photographs and damning police reports, Gallo, 63, says he's not the kind of man the government claims he is.

Impassioned pleas from Gallo come as the government moves to deport him because, 54 years after moving to Montreal and 35 years after a murder conviction, the government realized he's not a Canadian citizen.

Police interest in Gallo revived in 2005 when he was secretly videotaped delivering stacks of cash to the leaders of the Rizzuto crime family in the backroom of the mob's Montreal headquarters. On one visit, Nicolo Rizzuto, patriarch of the family, tucked the money into his sock for safekeeping; on another, Rizzuto and other senior Mafia leaders divided it between them.

In making his bid to remain in Canada, Gallo has opened his life to intense scrutiny, filing his and his wife's financial documents, family records and letters in court.

Gallo takes issue with claims he's a Mafia member, and denies his murder conviction was for a hit on behalf of the mob.

"My little sister was attending school and had been opportuned by Angelo Facchino, a drug dealer known to police. I was determined to persuade him to stop selling drugs in my sister's school, and he proved to be equally determined to maintain this activity," Gallo says in his statement.

On Sept. 1, 1973, he confronted Facchino in his car.

"I reasoned I could safely approach him, as we were all in plain view on a busy street. . . . Mr. Facchino began screaming at me and appeared to me to be reaching for a weapon. I grabbed my .38-calibre revolver in a panic and fired, hitting him three times."

Gallo was given a life sentence. While in prison, he received glowing reports from staff. During that time, his wife, Ada, opened Motta Bakery, a popular restaurant in Montreal's Little Italy. When paroled in 1982, Gallo joined its operation.

Canada Border Services Agency argues Gallo is inadmissible to Canada on two counts: serious criminality and because of "his connection to the Italian Mafia."

This week, Federal Court of Canada Justice Judith A. Snider gave Gallo a reprieve, granting his request for a fresh decision by the government on whether to subject him to an immigration-admissibility hearing.

That puts the case back in the hands of the government.



Mobster forfeits treasure trove

Financier of Montreal Mafia imprisoned

Adrian Humphreys, National Post

A multi-million-dollar treasure trove of art, jewels, ant iques, real estate and luxury cars was forfeited to Italian authorities yesterday by a man named as the longtime financier of the Mafia of Montreal.

"He is part of a criminal organization, the Mafia, but he has good taste," said a spokesman for the Italy Direzione Investigativa Antimafia.

"We took away everything he had."

Beniamino Gioiello Zappia, 71, known as "Don Tito," is currently imprisoned in Italy for gangsterism and financial crimes, after a probe by the Rome-based anti-Mafia police targeted the European operations of the Rizzuto organization, a Mafia clan based in Montreal that has already been called the "pinnacle of organized crime" in Canada by the RCMP.

Earlier this year, police found hundreds of pieces of artwork, antiques and archaeological artifacts at Zappia's homes in Milan and in Cattolica Eraclea, the Sicilian village that is also the hometown of Vito Rizzuto, the head of the Mafia in Montreal. The material was turned over to an Italian cultural office for identification and storage.

On Thursday, an Italian court judge ordered the property forfeited to the government.

Among the haul are 345 paintings, including works by famed Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali, acclaimed Sicilian erotic painter Renato Guttuso, portraitist Giovanni Boldini, surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, and other famous Italian artists.

(At least one of the Dali pieces is a fake, according to New York Dali specialist Frank Hunter, who was shown a photograph of the work by the National Post.)

Also confiscated from Zappia were 220 antique clocks; precious stones, gems and crafted jewellery; antique ivory; collector's coins; and many ancient and antique vases, bronzes and statues, including works by Baroque sculptor Domenico Guidi.

More practical items confiscated were several apartment buildings, a jewellery shop, several tracts of real estate, bank accounts, safety deposit boxes and "many nice cars," the D. I. A. said.

An estimated value of the goods had not been calculated but would amount to many millions of dollars, the agency spokesman said.

The seizure adds to the picture of the Rizzuto organization as a vastly wealthy, white-collar and internationally active clan.

Zappia was described by officials in Rome as the senior representative of Rizzuto in Italy.

Investigators in several countries have long suspected Zappia to be a financier for the Rizzuto clan, playing a key role in moving the family's riches to safety.

On May 24, 1988, Swiss authorities tracked him crossing the Italian-Swiss border and making withdrawals from accounts of Rizzuto family members at secretive Swiss banks in Lugano.

Almost exactly 17 years later he was still a Rizzuto insider, police records show.

On May 23, 2005, wiretaps secretly installed by police in Montreal recorded a Rizzuto leader explaining to Zappia how money from underlings flowed to them at the social club they used as their headquarters.

"When they do something -- and it doesn't matter when they do it -- they always bring something here so it can be divided up among us."

The RCMP shared that information and other suspicious conversations, gathered during Project Colisee, with investigators in Rome. Italian police launched two probes of their own, Operation Brooklyn and Operation Orso Bruno (Italian for Brown Bear), targeting Rizzuto and his men. One investigated attempts to win the massive public works contract to build a bridge linking Sicily to mainland Italy, the other a sprawling European financial empire.

As evidence of the organization's wealth, the bridge contract was worth an estimated $6-billion and the second operation led police to freeze $689-million worth of assets.

"This is the end of our investigations that we started two years ago. We worked with Canadian police against the Rizzuto family," said the D. I. A. spokesman.

In 2007, Italian police arrested bankers, businessmen, investment brokers and a man linked to the royal family of Italy. In total, arrest warrants were issued against 20 members of the "Italo-Canadian Mafia," including Rizzuto, who is currently in prison in the United States for three gangland slayings.

Also named in warrants were Rizzuto's father, Nicolo, and brother-in-law, Paolo Renda.

Italian authorities have requested their extradition.

Italian officials yesterday said Zappia is linked not only to the Rizzutos but the Bonanno crime family of New York and the Caruana-Cuntrera clan, a notorious group of Sicilian Mafiosi drug traffickers who were arrested in Toronto in 1998, as well as the Triasi family.

Zappia's sentence is not yet finalized and has several avenues of appeal still open to him.

ahumphreys@nationalpost.com

[Dobre]

WOOOOOO

[thewestside]

Check out this 21 minute news video of the Rizzuto Clan -

http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/c ... lan_1.html

[DutchGangster69]

The rizzuto is the only mafia family that interests me i neve rheard of a crime family in toront except that n drangeta guy that is living there...there was a story on tthe national about him

[thewestside]

The rizzuto is the only mafia family that interests me i neve rheard of a crime family in toront except that n drangeta guy that is living there...there was a story on tthe national about him

The Rizzutos, who are a part of the Cosa Nostra in Sicily, are based in Montreal. The Siderno clan, of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, have been based in Toronto for decades.

[Azure9920]

The rizzuto is the only mafia family that interests me i neve rheard of a crime family in toront except that n drangeta guy that is living there...there was a story on tthe national about him

There are several groups active in Toronto, the biggest of them being the Siderno Group and the Cuntrera-Caruana.

[DutchGangster69]

How many mafia members are there in Toronto?

[Azure9920]

How many mafia members are there in Toronto?

Honestly, an exact number would probably be difficult to find, even from LE. It's fairly safe to say it's probably in the hundreds, counting all of the GTA.

[Dobre]

LE?

[Azure9920]

Law Enforcement.

[Dobre]

Law Enforcement.

lol

fuck.

[CheGuevara]

Honestly, an exact number would probably be difficult to find, even from LE. It's fairly safe to say it's probably in the hundreds, counting all of the GTA.

lmaoooo, i hope for your sake you're talking about members and associates.

[Azure9920]

Honestly, an exact number would probably be difficult to find, even from LE. It's fairly safe to say it's probably in the hundreds, counting all of the GTA.

lmaoooo, i hope for your sake you're talking about members and associates.

"For my sake"? Or what, you're going to idiotically reply with a post about nothing?

In that number, which is most likely at the bottom end of the hundred's, I'm including Italians on the lamb here, etc. Also, I include Hamilton as part of the GTA, which may be a bit of a stretch.

[CheGuevara]

"For my sake"? Or what, you're going to idiotically reply with a post about nothing?

no i'll leave that to the macedonian crime lord.

In that number, which is most likely at the bottom end of the hundred's, I'm including Italians on the lamb here, etc. Also, I include Hamilton as part of the GTA, which may be a bit of a stretch.

if you're talking about associates included then yes. but i doubt the GTA has hundreds of members. the rizzutos don't even have 100 members and their the biggest family in the country.

how active is the cuentra caruana in canada now a days?

[Dobre]

"For my sake"? Or what, you're going to idiotically reply with a post about nothing?

no i'll leave that to the macedonian crime lord.

Funny for the shiptar who pussied out of a direct discussion with me ever since I posted his fate being decided by his own people and his immortal enemy(me, the Macedonian).

[thewestside]

if you're talking about associates included then yes. but i doubt the GTA has hundreds of members. the rizzutos don't even have 100 members and their the biggest family in the country.

Care to tell us how many members the Rizzutos have?

[Azure9920]

if you're talking about associates included then yes. but i doubt the GTA has hundreds of members. the rizzutos don't even have 100 members and their the biggest family in the country.

Care to tell us how many members the Rizzutos have?

I'm sure he'd love to answer.

how active is the cuentra caruana in canada now a days?

About as active as some of the world's largest drug traffickers can be.

[CheGuevara]

I'm sure he'd love to answer.

shut up you coke head lol. i don't know how many members the rizzutos have. but they are mentioned as just a crew of the bannanos by many reports even though the rizzutos are bigger than the entire family. i would think 30 members and many more associates. how many do they have?

anyway, you still didn't answer my question about the GTA.

About as active as some of the world's largest drug traffickers can be.

lol. where is this gang active besides canada and have there been any recent arrests and how are the leading figures in the clan now a days?

[Azure9920]

even though the rizzutos are bigger than the entire family.

i would think 30 members

lol.

anyway, you still didn't answer my question about the GTA.

What question may that be?

lol. where is this gang active besides canada

I'm no expert, but several South and Central American countries, as well as in Europe. Oh, no, I forgot...they're overrated, aren't they?

and have there been any recent arrests

Not for at least a year as far as I know. Gerlando Caruana was denied parole about a year ago.

and how are the leading figures in the clan now a days?

According to someone who posts on another forum who seems to be very knowledgeable, Agostino and Joe Cuntrera are in the top spots following Alfonso and Gerlando's arrests.

[CheGuevara]

What question may that be?

who are these hundreds of members in the GTA?

I'm no expert, but several South and Central American countries, as well as in Europe. Oh, no, I forgot...they're overrated, aren't they?

their activities in canada are overrated. by what the press says. it makes us assume that the clan is moving 5.5 tonnes into canada at one time instead of to italy.

[Azure9920]

who are these hundreds of members in the GTA?

Even you can't be so idiotic to expect me to know their names.

[thewestside]

shut up you coke head lol. i don't know how many members the rizzutos have. but they are mentioned as just a crew of the bannanos by many reports even though the rizzutos are bigger than the entire family. i would think 30 members and many more associates. how many do they have?

They were many years ago. Former Bonanno underboss Sal Vitale testified that 19 people in the Rizzuto organization were made members of the Bonanno family. But that certainly wasn't the bulk of their manpower. The Rizzutos began to break away from the Bonannos in New York sometime between 1998 and 2001, finally doing so after Bonanno boss Joe Massino had Rizzuto members Gerlando Sciascia killed. The Rizzutos are a bit of an anomaly because they are sort of a hybrid between a Siclian Mafia clan and an American LCN family. Read The Sixth Family by Lee Lamothe and Adrian Humphreys.

lol. where is this gang active besides canada and have there been any recent arrests and how are the leading figures in the clan now a days?

Read Bloodlines by Antonio Nicaso and Lee Lamothe. And the Caruana-Cuntrera clan is hardly a "gang."

[thewestside]

Here is how author Lee Lamothe described the Rizzuto organization a few years ago -


"Explaining the makeup and structure of the Rizzuto organization is even more complicated. There's no pyramid of boss, underboss, captains, soldiers. The simplest way to figure it out is to draw circle the size of a dime on a piece of paper. That's the core of the Rizzutos -- essentially think of it as a cult of families all related by blood and marriage. Within the hard core centre are the Rizzutos, the Mannos, more recently the Ragusas, the Rendas, etc.Now make other circles, smaller, orbiting the main circle. These are other Sicilian or Calabrese clans or groups. Among the little orbiting circles are some triangles: these are the pyramids, more traditional groups that follow the American pyramid style. Scattered well away from the main group and the more closely associated smallest circles and triangles are various groups: bikers, Natives, Chinese, lawyers and accountants and stock brokers. These stretch across the country.

Leadership -- although there is no actual "leader" -- flows within the core of the Rizzutos to whoever accumulates it naturally. There are no elections or campaigns to battle for the position of "boss". Right now the "leadership" -- think of it a guidance or stewardship of the core clans -- is with the Rizzutos; the guiding mind is Nick Rizzuto, the operating hand is Vito Rizzuto. (Remember the original family in Sicily was called the Manno Family.) The guiding hand is responsible for the well-being of everyone in the clan from the moment of their birth until their death. Everyone in the centre clan/cult gets benefits of the entire group; everyone gets a chance to earn, an opportunity to show their abilities and strengths. The main tactic of the entire clan/cult is to protect the centre: the strong stewardship.

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Perhaps in my writing I haven't been clear: there is a Rizzuto Crime Family -- a criminal organization -- and there is a Mafia of Cattolica Eraclea -- a cult-like criminal band of clans. (In spite of the recent complaints by the ambassador from Italy, it is indeed a Sicilian Mafia, not a "Canadian " mafia; no matter where they live they have only allegiance to their casa madre in Sicily; they're only here because they have to facilitate drug trafficking in to the US and Canada is convenient and they're afraid to go to the US. They have no allegiance to Canada, they have no Canadian values, they have no goal in life except to further the profits and power of their mafia; unfortunately they're protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights that protects legitimate and honest immigrants.) The Rizzuto Crime Family (RCF) is part of the Mafia of Cattolica -- but is by no means the only branch of the "mother" cell: right now it is the Rizzutos' turn to be in position of leadership. It used to be Manno; when I was in Cattolica I was told Gerlando Sciascia could have been the steward/shepherd of the clan in the 1980s but he was killed by Massino's bunch.

I don't think the Cattolica Mafia in Canada has a system of bosses, underbosses, capos, soldiers. The Rizzuto Mafia -Family - at least on the outer edges might: there are other family cells, there are other "trianglular, pyramidical" groups revolving around the core of the Cattolica clans. Some of these marry into the Rizzuto/Cattolica "core" and become part of it. But until they do, they're satellites. The hard "core" is a group of families, all intermarried, all with the goal of strengthening the power and prosperity of all the clans."

[Dobre]

who are these hundreds of members in the GTA?

Even you can't be so idiotic to expect me to know their names.

He can. Asking stupid questions and providing dumb statements is a habit of his.

As you said, irrelevent as him as a Mensa meeting.

You've noticed he always refers to his entire people, always speaks from a 3rd person perspective, always. No ability that he boasts about his people he possesses himself.

[thewestside]

It's also funny how Johnny, otherwise known as Shit-For-Brains, believes the Rudaj group was a "sixth family" in New York but calls the Caruana-Cuntrera clan a "gang."

[CheGuevara]

Even you can't be so idiotic to expect me to know their names.

then shut the fvck up about it then. name ten.

secondly; you didn't tell us how many members the rizzutos have.

It's also funny how Johnny, otherwise known as Shit-For-Brains, believes the Rudaj group was a "sixth family" in New York but calls the Caruana-Cuntrera clan a "gang."

pencil dick. what would you like me to call them? the caruana-ceuentra is a masssssssive unbelievable crime MACHINE! you cannot be seriously this in love with italian criminals.

thegayside is in love so deeply with italian criminals that he gets offended that i called the cunrana-cuetnra a gang. oh this is priceless! this is clear evidence that this man is still a virgin.

[Dobre]

Even you can't be so idiotic to expect me to know their names.

then shut the fvck up about it then. name ten.

secondly; you didn't tell us how many members the rizzutos have.

It's also funny how Johnny, otherwise known as Shit-For-Brains, believes the Rudaj group was a "sixth family" in New York but calls the Caruana-Cuntrera clan a "gang."

pencil dick. what would you like me to call them? the caruana-ceuentra is a masssssssive unbelievable crime MACHINE! you cannot be seriously this in love with italian criminals.

thegayside is in love so deeply with italian criminals that he gets offended that i called the cunrana-cuetnra a gang. oh this is priceless! this is clear evidence that this man is still a virgin.

...

Shut the fuck up pussy.

On Azure, lol he's never going to answer that question.

[thewestside]

pencil dick. what would you like me to call them? the caruana-ceuentra is a masssssssive unbelievable crime MACHINE! you cannot be seriously this in love with italian criminals.

thegayside is in love so deeply with italian criminals that he gets offended that i called the cunrana-cuetnra a gang. oh this is priceless! this is clear evidence that this man is still a virgin.

Cry all you want little girl. People here know that I'm a serious poster who isn't "in love" with any criminal group. Rather, it's YOU who has been pegged by virtually everybody on this board, as well as others, as the biggest Albanian OC fanboy in the world.

And for the record, I wasn't "offended" that you called the Caruana-Cuntrera clan a "gang." I simply find it very telling that you call one of the most powerful Mafia clans in the world over the past half century a "gang" but at the same time try and pass off a small group of Albanians led by two Gambino rejects in New York as a "sixth family." Just another example of how skewed your views are on organized crime.

[CheGuevara]

Cry all you want little girl. People here know that I'm a serious poster who isn't "in love" with any criminal group. Rather, it's YOU who has been pegged by virtually everybody on this board, as well as others, as the biggest Albanian OC fanboy in the world.

And for the record, I wasn't "offended" that you called the Caruana-Cuntrera clan a "gang." I simply find it very telling that you call one of the most powerful Mafia clans in the world over the past half century a "gang" but at the same time try and pass off a small group of Albanians led by two Gambino rejects in New York as a "sixth family." Just another example of how skewed your views are on organized crime.

it's funny how to call the c-c (who is far from one of biggest today) one of the most powerful clans in the world.

and call the rudaj organization a small group of albanians led by two gambino rejects. those two rejects went on and were prepared to take on the entire family. what do you think about that? they virtually shut down all astoria operations owned by the mob there and what happened? nothing. so suck this albanian dick. bitch.

[Dobre]

Cry all you want little girl. People here know that I'm a serious poster who isn't "in love" with any criminal group. Rather, it's YOU who has been pegged by virtually everybody on this board, as well as others, as the biggest Albanian OC fanboy in the world.

And for the record, I wasn't "offended" that you called the Caruana-Cuntrera clan a "gang." I simply find it very telling that you call one of the most powerful Mafia clans in the world over the past half century a "gang" but at the same time try and pass off a small group of Albanians led by two Gambino rejects in New York as a "sixth family." Just another example of how skewed your views are on organized crime.

it's funny how to call the c-c (who is far from one of biggest today) one of the most powerful clans in the world.

and call the rudaj organization a small group of albanians led by two gambino rejects. those two rejects went on and were prepared to take on the entire family. what do you think about that? they virtually shut down all astoria operations owned by the mob there and what happened? nothing. so suck this albanian dick. bitch.

Prepared to take on the entire family? I could gather a bunch of black people and say I'm prepared to take on the US military, but it still doesn't change the fact I would get my ass kicked

[Azure9920]

Ralph Criminisi
Michael “Mike” DePaolo
Daniel “Danny” Gasbarinni
Vincent “Vinny” Lombardo
Antonio "Tony" Luppino
John Luppino
Natale Luppino
Rocco Luppino
Bruno Monaco
Rocco Papalia

There's 10.

it's funny how to call the c-c (who is far from one of biggest today) one of the most powerful clans in the world.

lol.

they virtually shut down all astoria operations owned by the mob there and what happened?

lol.

[thewestside]

it's funny how to call the c-c (who is far from one of biggest today) one of the most powerful clans in the world.

By all accounts it has been over the past half century. You are the only one who disputes that, despite the fact you have been wrong about their activity level in Canada over the years. Maybe because you were too busy dreaming of how there was nothing the Italians had the Albanians "couldn't reach."

and call the rudaj organization a small group of albanians led by two gambino rejects. those two rejects went on and were prepared to take on the entire family. what do you think about that? they virtually shut down all astoria operations owned by the mob there and what happened? nothing. so suck this albanian dick. bitch.

You know what I think about that. They weren't prepared to "take on" the entire family. But I really don't want to get into this dead horse discussion with you again.

Bottom line, the fact that you call the Caruana-Cuntrera clan a "gang" while you all the Rudaj group a "sixth family" says it all.