Member of Montreal Mafia family gunned down

One of the longest-serving Sicilian Mafiosi in Canada, 66-year old Agostino Cuntrera, has been gunned down in Montreal.
Mr. Cuntrera was shot and killed outside a wholesale food business he owned in the city’s St. Leonard borough at about 4 p.m. yesterday. His driver, who police said was in his forties, was also shot outside Distribution [...]

Rizzuto plays get-out-of-jail-early card

Reputed mob boss files U.S. appeal Wants time off for good behaviour
Amid signs the criminal organization he once led in Montreal is in serious trouble, reputed mob boss Vito Rizzuto has quietly filed for an appeal that, if successful, could see him released from a U.S. penitentiary this year.
Rizzuto, 64, is serving his sentence at [...]

Montreal Mafia money man presumed kidnapped

A Montreal Mafia player closely linked to the Rizzuto clan is believed to be kidnapped after his car was found abandoned and unlocked with open windows.
Paolo Renda, 70, was last seen Thursday afternoon in Montreal’s northwest Cartierville district in his car en route to run errands.
His wife Maria grew worried when 3 p.m. rolled around [...]

EU Police Break Up 11-Country, Mafia-Run Fake IPhone Ring

May 20 (Bloomberg) — European Union police forces broke up a counterfeiting ring run by the Naples mafia that specialized in importing and distributing fake Chinese-made iPhones, Italy’s Finance Police said.
The EU’s Europol is coordinating arrests in 11 countries, including Italy, where nine people are sought, the police said in an e-mailed statement today. The [...]

Suspended sentence for Montreal customs agent in Mafia drug smuggling

MONTREAL — A former customs agent who helped drug traffickers smuggle cocaine through Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport has received a two-year suspended sentence that includes one year of house arrest.
Nancy Cedeno, 35, said she was relieved after learning of the sentence that also requires her to perform 200 hours of community service during [...]

Newport Beach Film Festival – “The Sicilian Girl”

In the early 1990s, 17-year-old Rita Atria became one of the Costa Nostra’s fiercest foes when she offered to testify against the Italian Mafia. She had kept detailed diaries of the criminal organization’s inner workings as a vendetta after the brutal murders of her father and brother. Atria went on to receive death threats, get [...]

Reputed mobster Nick Rizzuto pleads guilty to tax evasion

Reputed mobster Nicolo (Nick) Rizzuto Sr. pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of tax evasion.
The 85-year-old has agreed to pay a $209,000 fine.
He entered the plea at the Montreal courthouse.
The Canada Revenue Agency says Rizzuto admitted to hiding income, and had to pay back the entire amount, plus the fine.
“The Canada Revenue Agency investigation revealed that, [...]

Nicolo Rizzuto faces fresh tax-evasion charges

Nicolo Rizzuto might have thought he left his troubles behind him in 2008 when he walked away from a conviction in Project Colisée with only a probationary sentence left to serve.
But since then a friend of his has been killed and his grandson and namesake was gunned down in December. And now Rizzuto, who will [...]

Toronto man denies role in Mafia war (Deportation sought)

A Toronto-area businessman denied being a member of the Mafia as he fought deportation to Italy yesterday over a conviction for holding a stash of guns during a savage mob war that stretched across the Atlantic.

Immigration officials are seeking to deport Carlo Figliomeni, 42, of Woodbridge, north of Toronto, saying he is no longer eligible [...]

Israeli Mafia activity on the rise

Israeli organized crime activity in Los Angeles has gotten “a little bit worse” recently, a senior Los Angeles Police Department official told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
Michael P. Downing, deputy chief of the LAPD’s Counter-Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau, was in Tel Aviv on Monday and Tuesday to take part in the Safe City [...]

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