Rizzuto acquitté de gangstérisme: la Couronne ne fera pas appel

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/20...terisme-la-couronne-ne-portera-pas-appel

Coup de 12 tiré en plein jour au centre-ville : un homme accusé

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...jour-au-centre-ville-un-homme-accuse.php

Mafia montréalaise: pénitence de trois mois pour Danny De Gregorio

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...de-trois-mois-pour-danny-de-gregorio.php

Contraband Tobacco: Part of the profits went to the Violi clan

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...s-profits-serait-allee-au-clan-violi.php

This ends the speculation about whether the Violi's sons from Hamilton, were involved in Montreal's organized crime affairs.
Domenico Agostino mentioned in the article is a close associate of Sergio Piccirilli.
Sergio was the one who join forces with the D'Amico's.
The Ontario clans did back opponents of the Rizzuto's.

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/03/22/vaste-frappe-contre-le-tabac-illegal

More on the tobacco smuggling:

Huge strike against illegal tobacco
Smugglers traveled through the United States and Ontario before returning to Quebec.

A smuggling network of smugglers whose goods traveled more than 3000 km across Canada and the United States and which allowed the Italian mafia to fill put their pockets was dismantled yesterday by the Sûreté du Québec.
n total, 14 people who are suspected of being involved in this fraud were arrested yesterday morning. Among them, we find the presumed head of the network, Domenico Agostino, and his accomplice Domenico Cocullo. Men aged 48 and 39 are close to the Italian mafia, especially the Calabrian clan, according to our information.

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...clan-rizzuto-peut-retourner-chez-lui.php

According to La Presse:


At that time, Arcadi said he was not afraid for his life yet his exit plan was to settle far from Montreal, to settle in a residence protected by a grid and cameras "to control the comings and goings. visitors, and avoid the unwanted, "maintain a garden and lead a peaceful life, surrounded by his children and grandchildren.

Pretty old school those cigarettes more lucrative than coke lol. I recall Sergio was close to the natives pretty tough themselves.

I thought Arcadi had been out longer than that?

Things should be heating up with Arcadi, Rizzuto and Sollecito being back on the streets. Del Balso too.

Man charged with downtown Montreal shooting carried out in broad daylight

http://montrealgazette.com/news/man...l-shooting-carried-out-in-broad-daylight

More on the Nesparolis.

At the end of July, the Court of Quebec pronounces its judgment against the Nesparoli family, close to the boss Sergio Piccirilli. The father, Sergio Nesparoli, 74, and one of his sons, Sergio Junior, 37, are sentenced: 12 months under conditions for possession of weapons for the father and 36 months in prison for the son for possession of weapons and drug trafficking. The time spent in pretrial detention counting for "1.5", Petardi and Nesparoli Junior had only ONE day of prison to perform.
The Nesparoli and their accomplices were arrested on August 11, 2015. Sergio Nesparoli Junior and Michael Petardi were members of the "Devils Ghosts" club, affiliated with the Hells Angels. Gino was wounded in July 2013 during the shooting at the Nite Life Bar (former Nesparoli property), which killed 37-year-old Jamie Laramée, who is considered the replacement for the West End Gang.

Two articles respectively published yesterday and today regarding contraband, or illegal, tobacco:

Federal, provincial governments target illegal tobacco with new funding
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/can...ernments-target-illegal-tobacco-with-new

The RCMP has estimated that there are roughly 175 organized-crime groups in Canada with ties to the illicit tobacco market.

Earlier this month, the Sûreté du Québec announced the takedown of a mass tobacco-importation scheme that they allege had ties to Italian and Indigenous organized-crime groups.

Project Olios, which began in June of 2016 and was conducted in partnership with the Canada Border Services Agency and partners on both sides of the border, focused on individuals illegally importing tobacco from the United States, through the Lansdowne and Fort Erie border crossings, to be sold on the Kahnawake territory in Quebec.
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Organized crime behind contraband tobacco costs governments billions
http://ctv.news/A6xXsMP

Dubbed ‘Project Mygale,’ the nearly two-year-long operation tracked raw tobacco that was purchased in the United States, smuggled into Canada at three separate border crossings, and turned into cigarettes at manufacturing plants on First Nations reserves in Ontario and Quebec.

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A rising star in the HA organization received his "patches" after being targeted by searches. Daniel André Giroux was observed by police while wearing his new full-patch member jacket of the Montreal division earlier this month, Le Journal said .

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/04/02/il-monte-en-grade-avec-les-hells

http://montrealgazette.com/news/jur...-alleged-plot-to-kill-raynald-desjardins

Jury selection set to begin in case involving alleged plot to kill Raynald Desjardins

I wonder what they have on him since they can't use anything that came from Rizzuto/Sollecito. I'm interested in what the prosecution says too about their arrangement.

dix,

When Loris Cavaliere pleaded guilty, anyone who was in the courtroom at the time was prevented, because of a publication ban, from naming the individuals who were holding meetings in a room in Cavaliere's law offices to discuss "money laundering, payment of rent for (the permission) to sell drugs, collection of money and the possibility of using violence to solve different problems.” Paul Cherry of the Montreal Gazette used that quote in his article about Cavaliere's release to a halfway house--the quote itself is from the summary of facts read into the court record when Cavaliere pled guilty. Cherry is one of a number of journalists who reported that Cavaliere was present for a lot of the meetings.

We don't know whether "the possibility of using violence to solve different problems" means plotting the murder of Raynald Desjardins. However, I am quite doubtful because, if the plot had been discussed, Stefano Sollecito and Leonardo Rizzuto, along with others in those meetings, would also have been charged back in November 2015 with conspiring to murder Desjardins.

Gregory Woolley and Boucher's daughter, Alexandra Mongeau, are the other two people specifically charged with conspiracy to murder Desjardins. Could Woolley have been participating in those meetings at Cavaliere's law offices? Yes. However, the police allege that Boucher and his daughter discussed the murder plot when she would visit him in prison, and she in turn would convey the messages to Woolley at some point every time after she left. I'm not sure why Boucher and his daughter thought that talking in code during her prison visits to him wouldn't or couldn't be deciphered by prison officials--it is a given that the officials were listening in.

Oh yea Mom knew he was being recorded, he had to. I was hoping there wasn't a publication ban on anything but most Canadian laws still confuse me. Thanks for explaining it. I just think there are more involved other than Mom, his daughter and Wooley. I don't understand why the Hells Angels would want Desjardins dead unless Rizzuto/Sollecito went through them? Maybe we'll get something after the trial, does Canada generally take the ban off "after" the trial?

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/04/10/le-fils-de-cotroni-condamne-a-20mois

Cotroni's son sentenced to 20 months

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/04/13/reglement-de-compte-pour-une-dette-dargent

Settling an account for a debt of money
The two young victims linked to organized crime were shot in the car parked behind a brewery on Bernard-Pilon Street in Beloeil on Thursday night.

Interesting that the 2nd guy lived. If he lives, does he turn?

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/04/16/une-usineremplie-darmes-prohibees

A weapons factory for criminals in Montreal
Company executives reportedly told their employees that they were more like paintball guns

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...05-crime-organise-tueurs-a-tout-prix.php

Organized crime: killers at all costs.

They have no loyalty except to money. They can commit an assassination at the request of an organized crime individual and turn against him the following week. They use sophisticated means, such as GPS, to know the habits of their targets, but can also be rough. They would be at least half a dozen in Quebec. These are the hitmen, version 2018.

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...es-dextorsion-recherchees-a-montreal.php

Extortion victims wanted in Montreal

Two men arrested for extortion over $ 30,000 may have killed other victims, believe investigators from the Montreal Police Department, who ask anyone who had a similar experience with Claudio Lapolla or Mario Ruscitti to come forward.

Ex-Hells leader 'Mom' Boucher pleads guilty to jailhouse plot to kill Raynald Desjardins

http://montrealgazette.com/news/ex-...ilhouse-plot-to-kill-raynald-desjardins/

I bet he done it to get his daughter off even though they don't mention it, plus what are they going to do to Mom? He's already in for life.

^^^^
Maurice «Mom» Boucher plaide coupable de complot pour meurtre:

http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2018/04/...t-pour-meurtre-contre-raynald-desjardins

Claudio may be related to Mike Lapolla murdered in 2005.

'Mom' Boucher used code, hand gestures to plan jailhouse killing

http://montrealgazette.com/news/loc...ilhouse-plot-to-kill-raynald-desjardins/

^^^^
Maurice Boucher plaide coupable de complot pour meurtre

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...ide-coupable-de-complot-pour-meurtre.php

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1095720/cocaine-australie-condamnation-quebecois-melina-roberge

Mélina Roberge sentenced to 8 years in prison for importing cocaine into Australia