Dilly Dolly, I agree that the Canadian Mob is still a second generation and is just now entering it's 3rd generation. Some of the families still respect the old generation where as others do not. It seems to me that the ones that don't are less disciplined and careless and become easy targets for infiltration for informants and law enforcement. In the states Mob guys are a dime a dozen, no values for the old ways exist, money and power have tipped the scales on honor and respect.
Where Vito Rizzuto only served 5 years in an American jail, for 3 murders and Giuseppe Violi is serving 16 years for drugs, for what I understand was entrapment, makes me question that the Canadian justice system is very strict when setting an example or singling out a certain group because of an alleged Mob family lineage. Dan D I don't see a weak law being exercised in this case do you?
Violi was caught trying to move 200-300 k's of coke ... and it wasn't his first ride at the rodeo having already spent a number of years in the can for the same thing in the late 90's.
I'll offer up this example though ... next to drugs, gambling remains one of the mob's biggest revenue streams ... remember that "massive" platinum sportsbook bust in Ontario? Most got slaps on the wrists, most got suspended sentences and I believe only one or two actually went to prison for VERY limited periods. They know that and they will flaunt the laws to their advantage. Heck one of the main players, Barletta, got 15 months and barely served 3 for his involvement and the stooge they put in charge of one of their mid-city hubs, that the court found made over half a million in illegal gambling profits only got a year, less pre-trial lock up... he didn't even serve jail time after the sentence.
https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/d...AAAQAHa3JpYXJpcwAAAAAB&resultIndex=1Now imagine a RICO type statue?
I'll concede I may be a bit ignorant of the US laws/sentencing but perhaps someone from the United States for example tell us what a typical sentence would be if someone got caught for bookmaking, racketeering and they added a RICO charge.... would they be out on the street with probation, and zero time served?
