BIO of Frank Martorana - He was born in 1959 in Montreal. He was close with Francesco Arcadi who inducted him into the Rizzuto crime family. Martorana was a wealthy car dealer, he drove a silver-grey Mercedes-Benz S55 AMG and lived in a extravagant home north of Montreal. Frank was convicted over 3 times because of him being heavily involved in car theft operations. Cars were snatched off the streets of Montreal and then resold in used-car lots in south of Canada. He pleaded guilty to involvement in the ring in 1994, but never served time in prison. Martorana was charged on December 1, 1999 for extortion along with 3 Rizzuto associates and he was fined $75,000. He also once owned a Japanese restaurant. In July 2001, Christian Deschênes and Denis-Rolland Girouard plotted to murder Vito Rizzuto, Francesco Arcadi and Martorana at the Cosenza Social Club which was a well known Rizzuto hangout. Deschênes was charged with conspiracy while Rolland Girouard was sentenced to 45 years. It appeared that Deschênes personally owned Frank Martorana $2 million. Martorana was kidnapped on May 25, 2005 by four attackers, He was beat up and his shop was smashed up aswell. Frank Martorana had owned another crime family considerable high sums of money.

BIO of Emanuele Ragusa - He was born in 1940 in Calabria or New York. He was very close with Paolo Violi but when Violi was murdered he became close with Nicolo and Vito Rizzuto. Ragusa has two daughters, one had married Nick Rizzuto and the other one is married to Luigi Vella who is a cousin of Alfonso Caruana, He is head of the Sicilian [BadWord]-Caruana crime family in Canada. Emanuele Ragusa is heavily involved in drug activities. Michael Divito is a member of Ragusa's crew, and was wanted in 2009 for conspiracy to import 300 kilos of cocaine. In the 1980s, He was once charged by the Italian government for drug trafficking. Emanuele was arrested on August 30, 1994 along with 57 members of Canada's organized crime underworld including Sabatino Nicolucci, Valentino Morielli, and Vincenzo Di Maulo in an undercover operation. Police say about $100 million was laundered through the establishment and seized 558 kilos of cocaine which was owned by Ragusa. In 1996, He was named in another drug affair for importing 543 kilograms of cocaine but the police only seized 75 kilos of cocaine which was in New York at the time they seized it. Ragusa was convicted of all charges in 1996 and was sentenced to 12 years in prison but in 2003, He commented in a hearing that he wanted to retire from organized crime and to run a local corner store. A prison psychologist backed up the claim concluding that Ragusa did indeed wish to stop his involvement with the Montreal crime family.

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Christian Deschenes is seeking release from prison.

Link to French-language article:

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justic...-liberation.php