For background, see Giordano's post at http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthr...8861#Post668861, and Adrian Humphreys's earlier articles at http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/09/03/...talian-basement and http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/09/16/...stice-in-italy.

Link:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/09/30/...on-hearing-told

Excerpt:

Alleged Mafia boss would receive ‘virtually unlimited’ money to fund a fugitive life, immigration hearing told
Adrian Humphreys
National Post
30/09/13 | Last Updated: 30/09/13 6:22 PM ET

An Italian man arrested in Toronto and now fighting deportation is one of the top leaders of Italy’s Calabrian Mafia and controls affiliates in Canada and Australia, an immigration hearing was told Monday.

Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) also alleged Carmelo Bruzzese, 64, would likely flee rather than face deportation and — in the mob’s strange outlaw culture — gain status and honour for it, with mobsters providing “virtually unlimited” money to fund his fugitive life.

At a series of acrimonious and argumentative detention review hearings before the Immigration & Refugee Board (IRB), however, Mr. Bruzzese’s lawyer blasted the government’s case, saying it is based on faulty information.

The CBSA arrested Mr. Bruzzese in August, naming him as a fugitive in Italy after a large anti-Mafia probe there. Ahead of an arrest warrant, Mr. Bruzzese came to Canada where he has significant ties....