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Reputed Montreal mobster, once linked to top boss Vito Rizzuto, gunned down
LAVAL, Que. — Exactly one decade ago, Rocco Sollecito was part of a group of six men who seemed untouchable. The six had been chosen to take charge of the Mafia in Montreal while its leader, Vito...
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Mafioso Vito Rizzuto wanted the suspect in eldest son’s murder to suffer,...
Vito Rizzuto made a serious effort to find the man suspected of killing his eldest son and wanted him captured alive to make him suffer, a recently released court document alleges. The document, part...
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Aggressive program aims to root out criminal infiltration of Canada’s...
All 193,000 workers with access to restricted areas at Canada’s sensitive airports and seaports are being quietly run through a police database each and every day — a new system called “perpetual...
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Sicilian Mafia brothers handed life sentence for deadly ambush on two...
After dramatic evidence from a killer who turned his back on the Mafia’s code of silence, two mobsters in Sicily were sentenced to life in prison for killing two gangsters from Canada, one of whom...
View ArticleAlleged Toronto Mafia boss wins new parole hearing in latest appeal to courts
TORONTO — For a killer and alleged Mafia boss devoted to an outlaw life, Vincenzo “Jimmy” DeMaria has a strong affinity for turning to the courts to fight for his rights. The Toronto businessman, named...
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Stolen Van Gogh masterpieces found in Mafia’s lair returning home after...
Two stolen Vincent Van Gogh paintings found by police in a Mafia lair in Italy in September will soon return to their home in Amsterdam from where they were stolen in a spectacular heist in 2002....
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Arson spree and mafia killings in Montreal points to struggle for power after...
A spate of recent Montreal-area arsons linked to organized crime suggests the battle for Mafia leadership in Quebec remains fractured, experts say. What is likely, they say, is the era that saw...
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John Gotti’s grandson and 82-year-old ‘Goodfellas’ mobster charged over...
NEW YORK — An 82-year-old mob figure who was acquitted in connection with the storied 1978 Lufthansa heist in 2015 was indicted again on Wednesday, this time along with John Gotti’s grandson, accused...
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Hamilton police raid urban pot farm after Post reveals link to murdered...
HAMILTON, Ont. — Hamilton police raided a controversial medical marijuana grow-operation after the National Post revealed it was operated by a gangster who had been murdered in Toronto. Officers with...
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A mobster born into an entrenched Mafia clan shot dead outside his Hamilton home
HAMILTON, Ont. — Angelo Musitano, a scion of an entrenched Mafia family, was gunned down in the driveway of his suburban Hamilton home Tuesday afternoon. Police cordoned off Chesapeake Drive in a...
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Slaying of Mafia family’s son came after he found God and turned life around,...
HAMILTON, Ont. — The day after startling news of the targeted murder of Angelo Musitano, the son of a notorious Mafia boss and a well-known gangster in his own right, a small, close-knit group of his...
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Mobster wanted to bulletproof cars before brother’s murder. After the hit,...
HAMILTON, Ont. — The day after Angelo Musitano was murdered in his driveway, his older brother — believed to be the boss of a Mafia clan that bears the family name — exchanged his flashy Ferrari sports...
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Mobster’s killer ditched car just a block away from daylight shooting outside...
The gunman who shot and killed well-known Hamilton, Ont., mobster Angelo Musitano on Tuesday ditched the Ford Fusion he drove for the hit just 450 metres away, likely switching into another vehicle for...
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Police hunting for two people in ‘well planned’ murder of Hamilton mobster...
Hamilton police believe two people were involved in the daylight murder of mobster Angelo Musitano, although only one was captured on surveillance video. Based on witness information and images...
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Former jet-setting Canadian billionaire now mentally unfit for battle over...
Lawyers and doctors of Michael G. DeGroote, one of Canada’s wealthiest businessmen and most generous philanthropists, say he is mentally unfit and no longer capable of representing himself in court....
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Mafia fugitive arrested at Brazil airport said to be key crime figure linking...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t90qXRq9Lhw&w=640&h=360] A Mafia fugitive from Italy — named as the axis of a powerful mob clan in Canada, Italy and the Netherlands — was arrested...
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Guest list for Ontario mobster’s wedding could offer clues about motives for...
The guest list of gangland figures attending Hamilton mobster Angelo Musitano’s 2012 wedding casts doubt on a prevailing theory of why he was killed and why his brother’s house was sprayed with...
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Final 11 accused in massive Montreal Mob bust have charges stayed after...
MONTREAL — The last 11 people accused in a massive Quebec Mob bust dubbed Project Clemenza saw the charges against them stayed Monday at the request of the prosecution. A spokesperson for the Public...
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‘The Last King of Rome’: How a gangster threw Italy into a debt crisis
By Kyle Swenson The takedown went smoothly. Dash cam footage from the Italian Special Operation Squad shows police vehicles cutting off the gray car on a thin ribbon of country road. The car’s one-eyed...
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‘A pretty good lesson on political correctness’: Mafia hitman’s parole yanked...
A former Mafia hit man in Canada who killed three people on the orders of underworld bosses has had his parole revoked for making threatening comments on social media. “I got a pretty good lesson on...
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