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Man living in Canada is Italian mob boss, member of Rome's anti-Mafia police...
In a closely guarded hearing room in Toronto an Italian grandfather arrested last summer at his suburban home north of the city was declared by an investigator with Rome’s anti-Mafia police to be the...
View ArticleRCMP apologizes for Godfather-themed code name used for anti-Mafia raids...
The RCMP are apologizing for the code name used to describe its latest anti-Mafia bust in Quebec. The force’s commanding officer in the province has written a letter to the National Congress of Italian...
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Parole of convicted mob killer notorious for his explosive temper tested by...
One danger of road rage is never knowing who is driving the car that is the target of your fury. This was highlighted when a man confronted a driver after a traffic incident and behind the wheel was a...
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Canadian drug lord’s sentence should be boosted to compensate for Canada’s...
A New York judge needs to impose a 30-year sentence on Quebec’s billion-dollar pot playboy because when he secures a transfer to Canada his prison time could be slashed from decades to months by...
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Pot playboy Jimmy Cournoyer used lawyers to deliver bribes, pay-offs and...
Quebec’s billion-dollar pot playboy had a cadre of high-priced lawyers in Canada and the United States working to intimidate and threaten underlings into not cooperating with authorities, U.S....
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Canadian police ignored Interpol alert for alleged mob boss though they knew...
TORONTO — An international alert accusing a man living north of Toronto of being a mob boss went ignored by Canadian police because Canada does not recognize the crime of Mafia association, the tool...
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Former Toronto-area man arrested in Italy, called dangerous Mafia clan's...
At 4 a.m. Tuesday, a ring of police officers roused Antonio Coluccio from slumber inside a house in Siderno, a village on Italy’s picturesque coast that has stubbornly remained a stronghold for the...
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Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto’s revenge plot against rivals ran deep
PALERMO, SICILY — After release from a U.S. prison, Canada’s embattled Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto summoned top henchmen to secret meetings in Cuba and the Dominican Republic to plot revenge on rivals, a...
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Top prosecutor in birthplace of the Mafia has one of the most dangerous jobs...
PALERMO, SICILY — There are things on the walls of Leonardo Agueci’s fortified office that trigger giddy exuberance and there are things that turn his expressive face grave and dour. Among the clutter...
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Canadian billionaire at centre of bizarre Mafia and fraud accusations after...
Glenn Lowson/NP/FilesBillionaire Michael DeGroote was caught up in a bizarre case of a soured investment that drew in a cast if characters, including Montreal mobster Vito Rizzuto. A bitter dispute...
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Businessman in bitter dispute with Canadian billionaire over failed casino...
A Canadian businessman embroiled in a bitter dispute with one of Canada’s wealthiest men over a US$112-million investment in Caribbean casinos has been jailed in the Dominican Republic, officials say....
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Montreal mobster mysteriously vanished in 2012, but only now are police...
The strange disappearance in 2012 of a Montreal man who was a quiet part of important moments in the history of the Mafia in Canada took an odd twist Tuesday when police suddenly released a public...
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Police arrest mob bosses, seize firearms and drugs in dawn raids targeting...
AURORA, Ont. — Two Canadian cells of a sprawling and powerful international Mafia organization were hit by police raids Tuesday, the culmination of a two-year probe aimed at toppling the ’Ndrangheta’s...
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Toronto-area grandfather accused of being Italian mob boss ordered deported...
TORONTO — An Italian grandfather “living in the shadows” north of Toronto until his arrest two years ago has been denounced as a prominent and influential Mafia boss from Italy and ordered deported to...
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House and SUV of Hamilton Mafia figure hit by arson attack in the night
HAMILTON, Ont. — An apparent arson attack at the east-end home of one of Hamilton’s infamous Mafia figures Monday night has disturbed the underworld quiet he has maintained since leaving prison in 2006...
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Alleged Toronto-area Mafia leaders named as suspects in massive Italian crime...
Alleged leaders of some of the strongest Mafia clans in the Toronto area are named as suspects in a large-scale drug, guns and money-laundering case in Italy, with prosecutors saying the mobsters – the...
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Italy’s probe against ‘elite’ Mafia clans sparked by chats between two former...
TORONTO — An international probe in Italy that struck the underworld “elite” — some of the strongest and wealthiest Mafia clans — began when police eavesdropped on conversations between two former...
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Toronto on brink of a mob war, Italy warns
Mobsters around Toronto are on the brink of armed warfare in a brewing feud between some of the world’s most powerful and wealthiest gangster clans, according to wiretaps secretly recorded in Italy....
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‘Armed and dangerous’ suspect surrenders to Toronto police in what may be...
HandoutDomenico Scopelliti, 51, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Rocco Zito. A man considered “armed and dangerous” surrendered to Toronto police early Saturday, an hour after...
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Murder of veteran Toronto Mafia chieftain not believed to be a mob hit,...
Despite the victim being a veteran Mafia chieftain, Toronto police say underworld intrigue does not appear to be the motive for Rocco Zito’s murder. HandoutDomenico Scopelliti, 51, is charged with...
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