This article was posted by antimafia on the real deal forum. It suggests that members of the Rizzuto clan are making a comeback.

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http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2012/0 ... elle-large

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Wide criminal alliance
Mafia, Hells, West End Gang, Syndicates form the network of suspected traffickers dismantled Thursday
DANIEL RENAUD
JOURNAL DE MONTREAL, POSTED ON: FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012, 10:30 P.M. | UPDATED: FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012, 10:40 P.M.

Is unity strength in this period of criminal instability? At least three distinct groups, the Mafia, the Hells, and the West End Gang operated together the cocaine trafficking ring dismantled Thursday by Montreal police.

The ten people arrested, eight men and two women, appeared yesterday in Montreal. They faced a litany of charges, including cocaine trafficking and weapons possession.

One of them, Sylvain Nuckle, 52, an individual with a heavy criminal record, would be a henchman of the West End Gang we have heard more about for the past year and a half.

Another, Marcus Barthelus, 31, is the brother of John Winsing Barthelus, member of the Syndicates, a group in the pay of the Hells Angels. Jean-Winsing was arrested in a major operation conducted in 2008, Project Axe.

The Syndicates, whose godfather is Gregory Wooley, a former member of the Rockers, a former farm club of the Hells Angels, would lead off in downtown Montreal since leaving prison guardian, almost a year ago.

Other individuals arrested have a long track record. Gaétan Ponton, 53, and Guy Therrien, 47, were sentenced to prison terms of six years and four years imprisonment for cases of hashish and cocaine from the early 2000s.

The Mafia

Among the 10 individuals arrested, there are also Nico Ouellet, 39, who has been arrested along with an Angelo Follano in 2000.

But Follano was arrested for importing drugs during the broad anti-mafia raids in 2006, Project Colisée.

To catch him, the police had approached an individual who had infiltrated the amateur baseball team in which he and his accomplices were playing.

The Rizzutos?

Other individuals targeted in the investigation that led to searches would also be linked to the Mafia, specifically the Rizzuto clan, according to reports which have however not been confirmed.

According to sources, the former dominant clan, beheaded during a vendetta orchestrated by cells of the mafia in 2009-2010, has been recovering little by little since the murder of Salvatore Montagna and the arrest of Raynald Desjardins and his conspirators, all accused of murder.

Former old allies of the Rizzutos, packed by the ephemeral new Mafia bosses, have begun to rally, four months before a possible return of the imprisoned godfather Vito Rizzuto.

Regularly in downtown Montreal, relatives of the clan would be seen in the company of people associated with bikers, street gangs or Turkish, Russian or Arabic criminal groups.

It seems more than ever in these troubled times, the trend is for the clans to unite to make money.