And I imagine that's true also for the mafia. Recently, the two components decided to reach an agreement to avoid violence or to try to find a way to manage their own illegal activities without raising the attention of media and police any longer.Ĭovid-19 is a virus that has affected every part of our life, our culture. At one point a component led by Raynald Desjardins, very close to the Calabrian component of the Rizzuto crime family started to challenge Rizzuto and they fought for power for so long. To understand the type of agreement that you have to consider that the Rizzuto crime family structure was a kind of criminal melting pot with criminals of different cultural backgrounds - French Canadians, criminal of Calabrian descent and Sicilian descent. In Montreal, the two groups that fought for 15 years finally reached an agreement.
If we are seeing shootings in broad daylight in Hamilton, as was the case in the killing of Pat Musitano, why is this happening in Hamilton, but not in Montreal? What changed in Montreal? Of course, they are not the organization they used to be, but they are still there and still powerful criminal groups with an interest in the money that they can make through alliances with the criminals in this part of the border in Canada. It's too early to write the obituary of the American Cosa Nostra. I have read so many articles that claim that the Cosa Nostra in the United States is dying. But I think I will wait to reply with the same comment. It's too early to say that, to write an obituary. Now that Pat and Angelo Musitano are dead, there may be an assumption that the Musitano organization is done. I see them more on the defensive side but you never know. Unfortunately, they don't issue any press releases. I don't think the Musitano crime group is able to strike back. So, I think it's an ongoing situation, but it's clearly the result of this power struggle. Now, the Violis are in prison, but the tendency is to rebuild in some way the connection to the Buffalo mafia. So, these two elements in some way help us to understand that the group like the Violis and their allies, they were trying to rebuild the connection to the mob, to the Buffalo mafia, to the New York mafia, because, probably, they were not strong enough to fight with their own resources and the idea to reconnect themselves to the Americans, of course, gave them more power.
In another episode Dominic Violi, during a conversation intercepted in 2017, he claimed that he was promoted to the place of underboss within the Buffalo mafia. The Violis, the people that we are against this idea of Canadian mafia led by Rizzuto - of course they were against it because Rizzuto masterminded the murder of Paulo Violi in 1978. Actually, during a project an undercover police agent was formally inducted into the mafia in Montreal while authorities secretly videotaped the initiation ceremony. With the murder of the Musitano brothers, a local player, decided to regain the historical connection to the Buffalo mafia. Q: What does the Musitano killings mean for the battle for organized crime in Hamilton and throughout Ontario? He is also a professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont. Antonio Nicaso is an author of more than 30 books on organized crime.
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