Mob Rule - Canada

[CheGuevara]

i never said rizzuto wasen't the most powerful gangster in canada. i've hesitated to believe it because you have people like the leader of the b.c chapter of the hell's angels which is thought to be one of the most powerful chapters in the world.

[Faciulina]

ahahahahah cheguevara you fucking moron you are so patetich when you proof to downsize italians, just admit italian mafia is the strongest in the world nobody can compete with it even russian chineses and mexicans togheter are not even close to italian mafia

[CheGuevara]

ahahahahah cheguevara you #%@&#%@ moron you are so patetich when you proof to downsize italians, just admit italian mafia is the strongest in the world nobody can compete with it even russian chineses and mexicans togheter are not even close to italian mafia

all three of those groups are stronger than the italian mafia including the albanian mafia.

[Azure9920]

i never said rizzuto wasen't the most powerful gangster in canada. i've hesitated to believe it because you have people like the leader of the b.c chapter of the hell's angels which is thought to be one of the most powerful chapters in the world.

What do you mean "BC chapter"? There's no Hells Angels "BC chapter". There are something like 15 chapters in BC, which one are you referring to?

[CheGuevara]

to my knowledge they are all united under one leadership in british colombia... are they not?

[Faciulina]

all three of those groups are stronger than the italian mafia including the albanian mafia.

yes cheguevara the albanian chickenthieves who has not even in the top 10 worldwide are stronger than italians and you are a down, i'm guessing? looooool
italian mafia LITTERALLY RUNS 4 CONTINENTS it's the strongest in north america south america europe and australia the fact other groups are even close to italians is laughable

[Azure9920]

to my knowledge they are all united under one leadership in british colombia... are they not?

No.

KILLER BATTLING PAROLE PROCESS

Reputed mobster's constitutional challenge targets 'unproven' allegations





A reputed Mafia boss and convicted killer is mounting a constitutional challenge against the use of police allegations by Canada's prison and parole systems, a move that, if successful, would allow inmates to get out of prison earlier and with greater ease.

The challenge comes as Vincenzo DeMaria, known as Jimmy, fights to keep an alarming police report alleging significant underworld activity from reaching the National Parole Board before his parole hearing to decide if he should be re-released from prison.

Likely standing in the way of his liberty is a daunting report from a senior RCMP officer accusing DeMaria of sitting on the Calabrian Mafia's board of control; being an accomplice to the unsolved murder of a Toronto gangster; engaging in drug trafficking; helping a cousin flee justice; and conspiring to hurt an underworld figure.

DeMaria, 55, has given notice to the attorneys-general in every province and to the federal government of his constitutional challenge as well as filed twin lawsuits in the Federal Court of Canada against the Correctional Service of Canada and the parole board seeking to suppress the police claims.

Lawyers for DeMaria say using the report is a violation of his Charter right guaranteeing the "right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice."

His lawyers characterize the report as "unsubstantiated or unproven allegations concerning criminal activity."

"None of these allegations has as yet been made the subject of a criminal charge against me," DeMaria said in a sworn statement filed in court. "I would welcome the opportunity to defend myself should such charge or charges be laid. I would plead not guilty and resist all such allegations to the fullest extent of the law."

While his court challenge raises important issues of inmate treatment within the prison and parole systems, the report itself sheds light on police theories on significant developments in Ontario's recent underworld history.

The report confirms that police investigators have "confidential information which they believe to be reliable" that a Mafia "Board of Control" exists in Canada.

Often called by its Italian name -- Camera di Controllo -- the board allegedly resolves disputes and organizes the competing enterprises of the various clans of the 'Ndrangheta, which is the name of the Mafia that formed in Italy's Calabria region, similar to the better-known Cosa Nostra from Sicily.

"Mr. DeMaria is a member of the 'Ndrangheta and a family leader. [He] holds a position on the 'Ndrangheta Board of Control," says the report, dated June 23, 2009, authored by Superintendent Mark Fleming, commanding officer of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, an anti-organized crime unit in the Greater Toronto Area.

The report further alleges that DeMaria "was an accomplice to the 2000 murder of Gaetano Panepinto."

Panepinto was an important emissary in Ontario for Vito Rizzuto, the boss of the Sicilian Mafia in Montreal. He ran a discount coffin store in Toronto and imported cocaine until he lashed out at two Calabrian mafiosi hiding in Canada from Italian authorities. Police believe he killed them in a dispute over gambling without permission from his boss.

On Oct. 3, 2000, the hulking Panepinto was shot dead in an ambush as he drove his Cadillac from his west-Toronto home. Police believe he was killed on behalf of aggrieved Calabrian gangsters. Losing Panepinto was seen as a significant stumbling block as Montreal mobsters tried to consolidate their hold on Canada's underworld by spreading east.

No charges have been laid in the murder.

In an interview, Supt. Fleming said he stood by the report, but declined to discuss its allegations.

"Our mandate is to investigate organized crime. That letter is self-explanatory and it now falls into the jurisdiction of the parole board," he said. He has previously written reports for prison and parole purposes on other inmates, he said.

Information in such reports is typically viewed with concern by the parole board when deciding if it is safe to release an inmate into the community.

DeMaria is asking the courts to intervene to prevent

the prison and parole systems from using the allegations to limit his liberty.

He has already suffered its ill effect, he said. The report led to him being removed from a minimum-security placement at Beaver Creek prison to a segregated cell at the medium-security Fenbrook prison where he remained for 18 days.

His case is urgent, his lawyers argued, because DeMaria has a pending parole hearing after he was rearrested on April 20, 2009, for allegedly violating his parole. He is serving a life sentence for a 1981 murder.

DeMaria suspects the parole board will be influenced by the report.

"I fear that the illegal use of allegations, rather than fact, will influence and bias the National Parole Board," he says in a statement. "It is possible if not probable that my parole will be revoked."

John Hill, one of three lawyers working on the case on behalf of DeMaria, declined to discuss the case because it was set to go before a judge as an emergency matter on October 1.

A lawyer representing the government in the case could not be reached for comment.

DeMaria was arrested in 1981 after he confronted Vincenzo Figliomeni, a 37-year-old father of four, at a Toronto fruit store over a debt of $2,000. He told the jury he acted in self-defence, but forensic evidence showed the man had been shot seven times in the back.

He was found guilty of second-degree murder and handed a life sentence. He was released on full parole on Feb. 3, 1992, and has operated a financial services business since.

When he was behind bars the first time he achieved a judicial victory regarding his treatment.

As the chairman of the inmate committee, he was transferred to a maximum-security institution after he telephoned the office of a Liberal MP to complain about conditions in the prison after an inmate riot. He took the prison to court and won a ruling reversing the transfer and drawing a judicial rebuke against the warden.

DeMaria is not alone in having to face police reports containing allegations or information, beyond what was proven in court, when pleading for parole.

The Corrections and Conditional Release Act allows all information used by the prison in dealing with an inmate to be sent to the parole board for its use when considering an inmate's release. The board is typically allowed to weigh the evidence when making a decision, even though it would likely not be admissible in a court of law.

If this procedure was found to be unconstitutional, the parole board could be making decisions on releasing inmates without knowing that police suspect them of continuing criminal activity or associations.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2001750

Catania says friend out for revenge

Denies role in loansharking, promises to fight extortion charges 'with vigour'

By Paul Cherry, Gazette Crime Reporter



MONTREAL – The head of a construction firm already embroiled in a controversy over a real estate deal with the city of Montreal says a former friend is trying to tar his reputation with allegations of extortion and loansharking simply to seek revenge.

Paolo Catania, 43, president of Construction Frank Catania & Associés, said he will contest “with vigour” criminal charges filed last week based on a complaint by a former friend. He also denied a statement that friend, Elio Pagliarulo, made in a sworn affidavit alleging both he and Catania “were in the loansharking business together.”

“He wants to hurt me. I basically contributed to putting him into bankruptcy. He’s trying to hurt my family and my business,” said Catania during a press conference held at his company’s offices in Brossard, located on a street that shares his family’s name.

“I have never been in the loansharking business. I would never even dream about being in such a business,” said Catania who is not charged with loansharking but was formally accused last week of threatening and attempting to extort money out of Pagliarulo.

The criminal charges were made public Friday, the same day the city of Montreal’s executive committee announced Catania’s construction company was awarded more than $5 million in contracts for infrastructure work in the St. Laurent borough.

The company’s dealings with the city of Montreal were already under a microscope. It was revealed last year it had purchased a 38-hectare lot, the Faubourg Contrecoeur, from the Societé d’habitation et de developpement de Montréal for a fraction of its value, according to the municipal evaluation.

Catania confirmed Monday he lent Pagliarulo $1.4 million over three years. He said it was to help a friend expand his company, a chain of bakeries, into other ventures.

Catania also said he began legal proceedings against Pagliarulo near the end of December, when he defaulted on the loan. Catania said he was seeking $1.4 million through the lawsuit and his management company obtained a judgment in its favour on Feb. 23. This decision contributed to Pagliarulo’s bankruptcy in July.

“I would like to point out that during all the proceedings against Mr. Pagliarulo, he threatened to make public all our different business with the goal, evidently, of ruining my personal reputation and that of my company and of my family.”

According to an interview Pagliarulo gave to La Presse, the finance company he created, with Catania’s money, ended in disaster and Catania began threatening his life. Pagliarulo also alleged that on Aug. 1 he was assaulted, briefly held against his will by a group of men and was warned to pay back Pagliarulo. He said he suffered injuries to his face that required surgery; days later, his estranged wife received a funeral floral arrangement.

One of two lawyers present at Catania’s news conference challenged Pagliarulo’s credibility and noted he was named in an affidavit filed in connection with Project Colisée, the police investigation into the Montreal Mafia. In it Pagliarulo is alleged to have helped launder money for Francesco Del Balso, a Mob leader currently in prison term for drug trafficking and other charges produced through Colisée.

Catania’s father, Frank, founder of the construction company, is also mentioned in an affidavit filed as part of Projet Colisée. Frank Catania originated from Cattolica Eraclea, the same village in Sicily as reputed Mob boss Nicolo Rizzuto.

In November 2005, Rizzuto’s son-in-law, Paolo Renda, was recorded, during a wiretapped conversation, discussing a gift he and the other four other reputed heads of the Mafia, including Nicolo Rizzuto and his son Vito, wanted to give to Frank Catania for his retirement.

On Monday, Paolo Catania shrugged off the recording and noted his father received retirement gifts from many law-abiding members of his community.

“My father has been in this community for 40 years, since 1961. He knows many people in the Sicilian-Italian community,” Catania said. “We are 15,000 (people) from Cattolica Eraclea in Montreal and many of those people sent my father gifts for his merit, for his contribution to his community in business and socially.”

Catania’s case returns to court on Nov. 11.

pcherry@thegazette.canwest.com
© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette

http://www.montrealgazette.com/Catania+ ... story.html

Drug suspect surrenders after three years on run



ctvmontreal.ca

The RCMP has arrested a man who had been on the run for the last three years following a big crackdown on organized crime.

Carlos Narvaez Orellana, 31, recently surrendered to police and was arraigned Monday on drug and gangsterism charges. Orellana remains behind bars pending a bail hearing.

The RCMP says several people conspired to import 1,300 kilos of cocaine into Canada inside containers.

Operation Colisee

The crime crackdown, called Operation Colisee, led to about 1,000 charges against 90 people including Nicolo Rizzuto Sr., the father of reputed mob boss Vito Rizzuto.

Three men are still wanted in Project Colisee: Giuseppe De Vito, Ralph Duval and Angelo Follano.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the trio are asked to call the Info-Gang hotline at 1-800-659-4264 or 1-800-771-5401.

[Azure9920]

Whistleblower: Mafia controls 80 per cent of Montreal roadwork
Mob contracts widespread in Quebec
By The Canadian Press
Fri. Oct 16 - 7:36 AM

MONTREAL — A retired Quebec bureaucrat turned whistleblower says Montreal's Italian Mafia controls 80 per cent of contracts doled out in road construction.

The French language CBC and the Globe and Mail are both quoting Francois Beaudry, a former senior engineer at the Quebec Transport Ministry, as saying the Mafia controls what happens in Montreal relating to road construction.

Radio Canada says Beaudry and several contruction company owners say the control centres around an alleged price-fixing scheme among a small group of companies, dubbed by some the Fabulous 14.

Radio Canada quotes Paul Sauve, president of the Montreal masonry firm LM Sauve, as saying those 14 firms would essentially take turns winning contracts shutting him and others out.

According to the media reports, one company would set a bid price on a contract and the others would then submit higher bids, the process being repeated so everyone would have their turn.

Radio-Canada also reported that it talked to some owners of companies who alleged they've endured threats of physical violence and damage to equipment if they didn't go along.

Yvon Dube, whose family owns an excavation company in Montreal, told Radio Canada he was threatened by rival entrepreneurs if he put in a bid.

The two media outlets reported Thursday that the bids were passed along by telephone, often using a code based on golf.

``We'll start on the fourth hole, we'll be a party of nine,'' an instruction would go. The code meant the contractor pretending to set up the game would submit the winning bid, just below $4.9 million.

``The contractor who was getting the contract would be the one organizing the so-called foursome,'' Beaudry was quoted in the Globe.

The CBC program aired Thursday night suggested most major road contracts in the Montreal region are 35 per cent higher than they should be.

One kilometre of road cost 37 per cent more to build in Quebec in 2008 than the average cost for the rest of the country, according to a recent Transport Canada study. Urban roads cost 46 per cent more to build in Quebec, while rural roads cost 26 per cent more.

Mayor Gerald Tremblay says everybody's focusing on Montreal but it's a problem across Quebec.

[CheGuevara]

in the end, whistle blowers are just that... whistle blowers.

[Azure9920]

in the end, whistle blowers are just that... whistle blowers.

I found the 80% figure to be a little outlandish, but the Rizzuto's are very involved in construction related activities; rigging bids, etc so obviously there is some involvement. The SQ has apparently taken it seriously enough, as they've launched an investigation.

Well of course it's nothing the mighty Albanians cannot accomplish, but it is interesting to read.

[Dobre]

in the end, whistle blowers are just that... whistle blowers.

I found the 80% figure to be a little outlandish, but the Rizzuto's are very involved in construction related activities; rigging bids, etc so obviously there is some involvement. The SQ has apparently taken it seriously enough, as they've launched an investigation.

Well of course it's nothing the mighty Albanians cannot accomplish, but it is interesting to read.

SQ = Shqiperia

Oh shit, it's a conspiracy, Albanians are so mysterious

[thewestside]

It's not just some coincidence that road contracts in Montreal are 35% higher compared to elsewhere in Canada. It's the result of the same mob-run bid-rigging scams that have plagued New York for years, where prices from everything from construction to waste hauling were substantially higher as compared to elsewhere in the country.

[Dobre]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL



"- There were about 50 police officers, as if Osama bin Laden was in the court."

ROFL

It literally says that. I lol'd.

http://www.dnevnik.com.mk/?itemID=F731A ... 61D9&arc=1

Robby doesn't even look like he's worried LMFAO with a smile on his face and everything HAHAHAHA

[Dobre]

This guy served in the Macedonian special forces the Wolves in Iraq. ARM = Army of Macedonia

One of the two guys who attacked

lol man I've been to this guy's house it's a fucked up situation :/



This guy was the one who pulled the trigger

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[Dobre]

shit

[Azure9920]

More incidence of corruption in Montreal political circles.

Playing politics at Montreal city hall

Municipal Scandal; Ousted candidate alleges shady dealings, kickbacks

Graeme Hamilton, National Post; With files from Canwest News Service Published: Saturday, October 24, 2009

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada ... z0VNSBgbR5

When he launched his campaign for mayor last spring by plastering his face across buses and in subway stations, Benoit Labonte was a virtual unknown. Nobody gave him much chance of shaking up Montreal's City Hall. But after being forced out of municipal politics in disgrace last weekend, he is finally making his presence felt.

In an interview broadcast Thursday night, Mr. Labonte levelled charges that have further shaken the public's trust in the municipal government and amplified calls for a provincial inquiry into allegations of mob influence and kickbacks at Montreal's City Hall.

Mr. Labonte, who served on the executive committee of incumbent Mayor Gerald Tremblay before crossing the floor to join the opposition, told Radio-Canada a "Mafialike" system of awarding contracts holds sway at city hall. Winning bidders have to cough up political contributions, he said.

Mr. Labonte stepped aside as Vision Montreal leader in June to let Louise Harel run for mayor in the Nov. 1 election, but he had stayed on as Ms. Harel's right-hand man and had been promised a top position if she were elected. On Sunday, she forced him out of the party amid reports that he had accepted money for his 2008 leadership bid from questionable donors. After initially denying the reports, Mr. Labonte admitted on Thursday that he had accepted the money, saying the donations were not illegal but they were unethical.

In the interview he said Mr. Tremblay's administration arranged the awarding of contracts to favour political donors. "Someone would make the rounds of the companies, the presumed collection, before the contracts were awarded, and that is how the system worked," he said. He named Union Montreal's former chief fundraiser, Bernard Trepanier, as the person who made the collections. He became known as "Mr. Three Percent" because that was the share of a contract's value that came back to the party, Mr. Labonte said.

La Presse reported yesterday on the contents of recorded telephone conversations involving Mr. Trepanier in 2006 and 2007. In one call, he informed businessman Bernard Poulin that he would be awarded a $12-million city contract to decontaminate municipal land. In another conversation, he joked with another businessman, Rosaire Sauriol, about Mr. Tremblay's choice of a new city manager, suggesting the new manager would be a pushover. "You know, the Mayor, he sees nothing. He sees nothing coming," Mr. Trepanier said.

Mr. Tremblay yesterday rejected Mr. Labonte's allegations that his party was accepting kickbacks from contractors. He said some people may have been using Union Montreal's name to hit up businesses, but the money never entered party coffers. He gave the example of two Union Montreal councillors in the borough of St-Laurent who in 2005 were caught demanding kickbacks in exchange for a zoning change. They said the money was for the party but were pocketing it themselves.

"When I hear Benoit Labonte saying people are going around demanding 3%, I have one question. How is that when he left our political party he did not talk about it? How is it he did not go to the police?" Mr. Tremblay wondered in an interview with TVA.

Ms. Harel was not spared in her former lieutenant's tell-all interview. Mr. Labonte said that even under Ms. Harel's leadership, Vision Montreal has openly sought financing from companies, which is not permitted under Quebec's elections laws.

"The reality, and it's true in all the parties, at the municipal and provincial levels ... is that cash is collected [from firms], it is distributed to front men, and they make out personal cheques," he said.

Both Ms. Harel and Mr. Tremblay called on the Quebec government to call a public inquiry into allegations of corruption that touch the province's construction industry and municipalities beyond Montreal.

So far the government has rejected the idea of an inquiry and instead on Thursday created a special police squad to investigate suspected criminal activity in Quebec's construction industry. It will look at such issues as money-laundering and collusion in bidding for contracts.

Inspector Michel Forget, the head of the squad known as Hammer, said yesterday a new hotline is already receiving tips. Media reports in recent months have touched on various problems within the industry, including:

- That taxpayers in Quebec are paying as much as 30% more than in other provinces for publicly-funded construction projects because the tenders are rigged by construction companies that collude when they submit bids.

- That a man with close ties to the Rizzuto organized crime family sat in on a meeting that ultimately decided which companies would take part in the restoration of the roof on Montreal's city hall.

- That the Hells Angels have been using the construction industry to launder profit from drug trafficking by muscling their way in as subcontractors on large projects.

In an interview this week with Le Devoir, Mr. Tremblay said he fears for the safety of his family. "There are a certain number of contractors who divvy up the contracts and the territory, as has been coming out recently in the media," Mr. Tremblay said. He said whenever possible he has reported wrongdoing to the police but he said he treads carefully because there is a danger of "threats and intimidation."

He noted that in 2005, when he was running for re-election, a bomb was discovered at his cottage and successfully disarmed by police.

[Azure9920]

Gerlando Caruana granted parole.

Former 'man of honour' in mafia granted parole


By Paul Cherry, The GazetteOctober 29, 2009



MONTREAL - Gerlanda Caruana, a man who admitted recently that he was "a man of honour" in the Mafia, has been granted parole on a lengthy prison term.

The 66-year-old is serving a combined sentence after being caught twice, during the 1990's, smuggling large quantities of drugs like cocaine into Canada.

He had been on day parole for 28 months and had been denied full parole in December despite admitting to the National Parole Board that he was a member of the Mafia.

Caruana repeated this again Thursday during a hearing in Laval while stating that he has fully left the milieu. He said people are allowed to leave the Mafia in peace as long as they don't become informants, which, he said, he is not.

When he was arrested in the late 1990's Caruana was considered to be part of a triumvirate of brothers who were the nucleus of the Cuntrera-Caruana organization.

The group had internal tentacles, and the brothers were based in Montreal and Toronto.

Even with his full parole Gerlando Caruana cannot communicate with his brothers. Alphonso Caruana was recently extradited to Italy where he is serving a lengthy prison term for Mafia activities. His other brother, Pasquale, lives in Boisbriand, where Gerlando also resides, and is also on parole for his role in the same conspiracy to smuggle cocaine from Mexico to Canada.

Gerlando Caruana said diabetes has left him in bad health and that a problem with his liver will likely require him to be hospitalized soon. He said the prospect of dying in prison is enough to keep him from reoffending.

© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette

Quebec to crack down on illegal tobacco smuggling

RHÉAL SÉGUIN

QUEBEC — From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 12:00AM EDT Last updated on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 3:04AM EDT

The Quebec government plans to crack down hard on tobacco smuggling, taking aim at organized crime, as well as the consumers who buy illegal cigarettes and the distributors who sell them.

A bill tabled yesterday proposes stiffer fines and tougher penalties for illegal retailers and manufacturers, and would extend the measures to their customers as well.

The bill would also give local police jurisdiction to stop the sale of illegal tobacco products and allow municipalities to keep all the proceeds confiscated during arrests that eventually lead to convictions.

"If we were be able to collect taxes from all those who smoke contraband cigarettes, we would collect $300-million more per year," Quebec Revenue Minister Robert Dutil said.

"Our objective is to collect all taxes ... and we are convinced that if everyone had no choice but to buy legal cigarettes, a great number of them would quit."

It is estimated that about one-third of all cigarettes sold in Quebec are bought on the black market.

Mr. Dutil said organized crime is manufacturing the illegal cigarettes, and that the new measures could cripple the distribution network.

For the first time, municipal police would be able to arrest and fine consumers and retailers of contraband cigarettes. Local police will be empowered to search cars and even impound vehicles used to transport contraband tobacco. Municipalities would have a stake in the operations because they would be able to keep all fines collected from illegal tobacco sales.

"This clearly shows the political will of the government to put an end once and for all to contraband tobacco ... and bring fairness back in the selling of cigarettes," he said.

Retailers were ecstatic with the initiative, saying that Quebec has become the first provincial government to lay down a clear plan to eradicate the illegal sale of tobacco.

"We are going to use it immediately to get the federal government and the Ontario government to move," said Michel Gadbois, vice-president of the Canadian Convenient Stores Association.

He estimated that if the bill reduces contraband tobacco to 10 per cent of the market rather than a third, as it currently stands, the government will have won the battle.

While the bill aims at illegal manufacturers, which are mainly on native reserves in Canada and the United States, Mr. Gadbois said the real goal is to place the distribution network, right down to the customers, under police scrutiny.

"Even the consumer could be liable to having some kind of fine," Mr. Gadbois said. " The use of the municipal forces means we can actually track down all over Quebec whoever is involved in it."

If the new measures fail to eliminate contraband tobacco, the association will intensify its push for government to reduce tobacco taxes to make illegal smokes less attractive. However, Mr. Dutil said the government has no plan to move in that direction, and high tobacco taxes are here to stay.

[Azure9920]

Strange that they give someone like Caruana parole, but deny it to Gerald Matticks a week before.

[Dobre]

Strange that they give someone like Caruana parole, but deny it to Gerald Matticks a week before.

Thus you have it, a hint of internal beef.

[Dobre]

Where have you been Azure? PM me on your activities.