have reporters ruled out the possibility that the calabrians were behind it?
I mean yes, he's related by marriage to the Armeni's...but who knows?
Perhaps they didn't want him to jeopardize their relationship with the winning Rizzuto-supporting faction.
Define
Calabrians.
The ones I mentioned in my post
If you mean that the Armeni crime group killed or arranged to kill Callocchia, I have no idea. Callocchia's wife and the imprisoned Vincenzo Armeni's former wife are sisters, as far as I have been able to tell. Callocchia does not have a Calabrian surname; however, I don't know from which region in Italy he or his parents descend.
I have maintained on other organized-crime forums that Vincenzo Armeni and his group--assuming he leads it--remained loyal to Vito Rizzuto and the Rizzutos before and during the war. The Armeni group may be one of those Calabrian crime groups or cells that were known, according to
Sixth Family... co-author Lee Lamothe, to make up part of the Rizzuto organization. And I would argue that all such Calabrian crime groups or cells, whether in Quebec or Ontario (e.g., the Commissos in Toronto), were subordinate to the Rizzuto organization.