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This throws your your argument out the door. Nicasso the expert.


Antonio Nicaso, a Canadian author and expert on organized crime, said this latest shooting is yet another sign of the continuing power struggle that has plagued the Ontario and Quebec underworld since the death of Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto in 2013. The Musitano family were allies of the Rizzutos.
“When the Rizzutos were in power the Musitanos … were on the right side of the power,” Mr. Nicaso said. But since the death of Mr. Rizzuto, they have lost that protection. Until the void left by Mr. Rizzuto is filled, Mr. Nicaso says “there will be always violence.”


Musitano was the Niagara Region lieutenant of Vito Rizzuto, Canada’s most powerful mobster — and the hatred between the Sicilian Rizzutos and the Calabrian Violis was epic and enduring. Peter Edwards Toronto Star Peter Edwards. Wow stunning news.

It gets better:

From Gaetano “Guy” Panepinto to Juan Ramón Fernández to Constantin “Big Gus” Alevizos, Vito Rizzuto had enlisted some odd fellows indeed in his quest to muscle in on Canada’s richest province. All was not lost, but the Ontario underworld had so far proven as difficult to govern as a rudderless sailboat. Mafia Inc book.
Vito refused to throw in the towel. He replaced Panepinto with a new emissary for the Greater Toronto Area: a man who was as brilliant as he was bloodthirsty. Juan Ramón Fernández was a Spanish national who had never been made a member of the Sicilian Mafia but whose tough-guy reputation had won him the godfather’s esteem. Mafic Inc Book
Delegating management of his Ontario dealings to a man as unpredictable as Guy Panepinto may not have been among Vito’s wiser business decisions

The ‘Ndrangheta remains the biggest player in gangland and there are more cells, many with strengthened ties to Italy.
The sea change came when longtime Musitano ally and protector Montreal boss Vito Rizzuto died of lung cancer in December 2013.
According to ‘Ndrangheta expert Antonio Nicaso, an author and a professor at Queens University, the bloody war that ensued in Montreal taught gangsters a lesson.
Murder is bad for business.
“The Musitanos betrayed other local families in Hamilton and he paid the consequences of their actions,” Nicaso told The Sun, referring to Pat Musitano.

The timing of Musitano’s big move was disastrous.
By the time he emerged from prison, he had missed the heyday of Rizzuto’s hegemony. The same year he was released on parole, Rizzuto was extradited to the United States for three gangland murders. The Rizzuto’s power waned considerably.
The venom sprang from a sense of betrayal by Musitano for choosing Montreal over Toronto, Sicilians over his Calabrian kin. National Post