http://www.montrealgazette.com/touch/new...html?rel=813072



MONTREAL - Reputed mob boss Vito Rizzuto has been spotted in Montreal after his return to Canada nearly two weeks ago from the United States, sources say.

Police in Montreal have been supplied with information that Rizzuto, 66, returned to Montreal last weekend and recently attended a weekday appointment in Saint-Léonard this week. A police source told The Gazette the information appears to be "very credible." The sources said it is still unclear whether Rizzuto has decided to reside again in the city he called home since his family arrived in Canada, from Italy, in 1954.

Rizzuto still owns a luxury home on Antoine Berthelet Ave. in northern Montreal even though it has been up for sale for months. The city had been the base of the Rizzuto organization for decades, while Rizzuto allegedly operated as the head of the Mafia in Montreal until he was arrested in 2004 and extradited, in 2006, to the U.S. where he was charged in a racketeering case involving the 1981 murders of three mafia captains in Brooklyn, N.Y.

He pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced, in May 2007, to a 10-year prison term. The sentence expired earlier this month and Rizzuto was automatically turned over to U.S. immigration and was escorted on a flight back to Canada on Oct. 5. His deportation had been prepared weeks before his release. The flight landed in Toronto and Rizzuto has apparently lain low since. A few recent media reports have quoted police sources as saying that it appeared Rizzuto remained in Toronto after arriving there. One report, published by the Journal de Montréal last week, cited police sources as saying Rizzuto met with "representatives from New York Mafia families" in the days after he arrived in Toronto.

During the years that Rizzuto was incarcerated in the U.S., the criminal organization that bore his family's name was weakened significantly by a major police investigation, murders and kidnappings. His eldest son, Nick (The Ritz), was killed in December 2009. A few months later his brother-in-law, Paolo Renda, was apparently kidnapped, near Antoine Berthelet Ave., and Rizzuto's octogenarian father, Nicolo (Zio Cola), was murdered in November 2010.

Man what a fuckin story his life is.

I am fascinated with Rizzuto and his story as well. I'm watching closely what will happen to him now the he's out. I think this makes an interesting case study for mob watchers. A boss in prison sees his family decimated by rivals. What does he do now?

Peace Pact? Doubt it lasts there have already been a bunch of fire-bombings in Little Italy since Vito's return.


http://www.lavalledeitempli.net/2012/10/19/vito-rizzuto-torna-a-montreal/


Montreal - He 's back home aa Vito Rizzuto, the godfather 66enne Montreal. After serving in a U.S. prison convicted for being involved in three Mafia murders in Brooklyn, extradited to Canada almost two weeks ago, Rizzuto had decided to go in Ontario. A choice that we defined "apparent suicide", since it was in Ontario reside historical enemies of the 'Sixth Family' headed by Rizzuto.

 

Among the most credible hypothesis by investigators was that of a possible return to Montreal godfather or an attempt by the same to find temporary refuge in Venezuela, as he did his father during the war mafia 70s , waiting to regroup and regain control of Montreal.

 

The choice of Rizzuto to go to Toronto, could be explained in a pax mafia between the two factions that vie for control of Montreal. A theory supported by the fact that its Ontario, Vaughan, at the beginning of 2011, was held a 50th wedding anniversary which had participated in leading members of the 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra.

 

To confirm the return of Vito Rizzuto in Montreal, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a number of witnesses who have seen the godfather in the city. Already last week, Rizzuto was present at a meeting in Saint-Léonard. A reunion with his old friends, the faithful of the Sixth Family, who for years have been waiting for the release of the boss after the series of murders that had weakened the mafia organization headed by the same (Rizzuto's eldest son, Nick, was killed in December 2009, just as his father Nicholas, old patriarch of the family, who was killed in November 2010).

 

An attack on the most powerful Mafia organization in Quebec, which - as we had already written - must have found the blessing of the 'Five Families' of New York, interest in establishing relations with the' ndrine that manage the vast cocaine trafficking that over time has supplanted the heroin notoriously managed by the Rizzuto clan.

 

To confirm our suspicions and the agreement occurred between the 'ndrine and Sixth Family, meeting in Toronto after the arrival of Rizzuto. A meeting that would be part of the representatives of the powerful Five Families of New York, the same Rizzuto and members of the 'Ndrangheta.

 

A peace agreement signed in order to avoid further bloodshed, which would be accepted by Vito Rizzuto, whose only apparent interest would be to return to govern the traffic of the port and the city of Montreal. A guarantee agreement, the representatives of the New York families.

 

But it is also an agreement that brings to mind one dated to a time when, after an initial period of cooperation between Calabria and Sicily, taking advantage of the weak moment of the 'ndrine, the Rizzuto came into conflict with the Calabrian Paul Violi man near Vic Cotroni. A fracture that she regained her composure thanks to the intervention of Joseph Settecasi, provincial representative of Agrigento, who had already met with the members of the Italian-American families at the beginning of the war of the Mafia in Sicily, between the Corleonesi of Toto Riina and the old guard Palermo, in an attempt to avoid the bloody conflict that took place then in the '70s / '80s. A peace that was short-lived, since the arrest of Cotroni, the Rizzuto opened the war against Violi, until the same Violi was killed.

 

Vito Rizzuto forget the murders of his father and his son? And who took part in this bloody war against the Sixth Family - including the gang that could provide the manpower to commit certain crimes - will rely to a peace desired by powerful families in New York? Who knows Rizzuto, said the old godfather is not the man to forget a wrong suffered. Or no longer fulfills the ambitions of a Mafia boss - as told by an ex-con who in U.S. prison has spent time with the boss - apparently aspires to become the most powerful Mafia boss of Canada.

Link to article about this topic, along with part of the article itself, appears below:

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/10/19/rizzuto-returned-to-montreal-this-week-sources

Rizzuto returned to Montreal this week: Sources
QMI Agency
First posted: Friday, October 19, 2012 05:37 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, October 19, 2012 05:46 PM EDT

MONTREAL - Besieged mob boss Vito Rizzuto, who had been in Toronto since his return to Canada earlier this month, finally made a trip to his hometown of Montreal this week, sources tell QMI Agency.

Over the past three years, top leaders in his Montreal-based crime family have been kidnapped or killed.

The 66-year-old's return to Canada coincides with another round of mysterious firebombings in Montreal's Little Italy district.

Four businesses have been torched in the past three days, with the latest attack coming Friday morning when a Molotov cocktail was tossed through the window of a gym. No one has been arrested.

Former Montreal police major-crimes director Richard Dupuis said the fact that all four attacks happened in Little Italy is suspicious....

http://www.lavalledeitempli.net/2012/10/20/il-ritorno-di-vito-rizzuto-bombe-e-fuoco/

Montreal - A coincidence is the case, there are two a clue, three are evidence ... The fourth time, we would not know exactly how to name it. Since Vito Rizzuto, he returned to Montreal, Little Italy - the Italian quarter - has become a hot area.

His return coincides with a series of arson attacks at the expense of businesses in the neighborhood.

Four companies burned in just three days are many. Too many to not be put in relation with the return of Don Vito. Already in August, before Rizzuto leave the U.S. prison where he was from when he was sentenced for his involvement in three murders committed in 1981, had been a number of arson attacks on which cast the shadow of the boss. Especially those in harm to businesses related to Domenico Arcuri, already known to the police, indicated with Joe Maulo, Raynald Desjardins, Salvatore Montagna and, as one of the men would put in check the Sixth Family.

The 'voice' in Italian bars, told a Arcuri, who had tried to bring the lieutenants of Don Vito, to reach an agreement. An armistice after the bloodshed. A proposal for a peace that would be rejected by loyalists godfather, who would then expressed a clear desire of the clan to regain possession of the land, even at the cost of unleashing a bloody mafia war.

Blood smeared soon the streets of Montreal, when during the same month were killed two members of the street gang, perhaps because of their ties to Rizzuto. A reaction to the gift's friends Rizzuto had the Godfather with the attacks in damage Arcuri? The ingredients for a new confrontation were all there. Revenge, blood and business.

A battle began with the death of some men of the Rizzuto clan, including the father and the son of Don Vito. Before being killed, even [BadWord] Augustine, who had taken command of the powerful mob family, he reckoned a bloody war, so much to buy an armored car and get a lot of weapons. Weapons that those loyal to Don Vito would have kept waiting for the release of the godfather.

An explosive situation that presaged a violent confrontation and a new, long trail of blood. But business is business and the mafia even before principles and affections, look at the business. The clash Canadian would have ended up penalizing everyone. The activities of the powerful families of New York, who, fearing repercussions in their affairs, they would send representatives to meet in Toronto Rizzuto, after he left the prison.

The four arson attacks in just three days in Little Italy, and could thus be read as an action aimed at clarifying any doubts about who is boss in the city.

Don Vito is back in Montreal ...

Correction. They werent in little italy. They were in the plateau, park extension and mile end area of Montreal. Minimal damage all of them. This was more a message than a firebomb.

Actually 2 were in Mile End 1 in Snowdon and the other in Villeray. 

Bar Primetime, at 5008 Park Ave., just north of Saint Joseph Blvd     (Mile End)

Café Ciociaro, at the corner of Saint Viateur and Clark Street      (Mile End) 

Chops Resto Bar, at  5322 Queen Mary Rd. near Décarie Street.   (Snowdon)
 
Kardiologik Gym, at 7345 St. Laurent Blvd. near de Castelnau Street. (Villeray)

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/22/...tolica-eraclea/


In Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily

In this hilltop village, a slightly otherworldly place that retains an aura of the frontier, a full-sized car barely fits down the cluttered, claustrophobic streets until the road suddenly empties into an airy public square fronted by a marvellous clock and bell tower.

It is a decidedly rustic locale where one finds ground zero for both the Quebec corruption scandal and the unfolding drama of the return to Canada of the country’s biggest name in crime.

Despite making headlines in Canada, at the town hall next door to the clock tower, there is little interest in talking about the town’s most famous export: Vito Rizzuto, the once imperious Mafia boss.

An official, who is put forward because she speaks English, pauses when the Rizzuto name is mentioned and says: “You have to talk to the mayor.” The mayor, however, is unavailable.

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He should be one of the most-watched men in Canada, but somehow, Vito Rizzuto has given everyone the slip as he quietly acclimatized to the new underworld order he faces.

Mr. Rizzuto, once the most powerful Mafia bosses Canada has known, arrived in Toronto late on Oct. 5, deported by U.S. authorities after completing his sentence for three gangland murders. After touchdown at Pearson, he was whisked through the airport under armed police guard.

Met by his remaining son, Leonardo, and three other men, at least one of them from New York, he was driven away and has since — strangely, for a figure of such prominence — seemingly disappeared.

Chased by reporters and police officers in Ontario and Quebec, barely a peep has surfaced. There has been no chatter in the cafés in Woodbridge, north of Toronto, where mobsters often hang out, of him dropping by for a coffee.

He was apparently spotted in Montreal last week, showing up for an appointment in the Italian neighbourhood of Saint-Léonard, the Gazette reported. It is not known, however, whether he headed back to the Toronto area or has formally resumed his life in Montreal.

In fact, police remain unsure the report is accurate.

“Nothing has come to us that Mr. Rizzuto came to Montreal. We didn’t see him,” said Const. Jean-Pierre Brabant.

There is speculation Mr. Rizzuto spent a few weeks in Ontario, away from the fray in Montreal, getting thoroughly briefed by supporters, since the information coming to him in prison was subject to monitoring by authorities and he could not be told everything.

He might now have a better handle on the changes that have taken place and the challenges he faces.

When extradited to the U.S. in 2007, Mr. Rizzuto was the imperious overlord of a global criminal empire; he returns as the father of a murdered son, the son of a murdered father, and the head of an organization in tatters.

His mansion in Montreal has been up for sale for months.

Adrian Humphreys, National Post

Many people in this town, founded in medieval times, share her discomfort with the subject.

Mr. Rizzuto left this village in 1954, when he was eight, and settled in Montreal with his family, a clan already entrenched in the Mafia of Sicily. His family went on to dominate the underworld in his new home.

Released this month from a prison in the U.S., where he served his sentence for three New York gangland murders, the embattled mobster was immediately deported back to Canada.

As he acclimatizes to freedom, his family’s affairs continue to be revealed at Quebec’s Charbonneau commission probing corruption in the construction industry. With each bombshell — about political financing, crooked business cartels and payments to the mob — the importance of the town of Cattolica Eraclea is never far away.

Star witness Lino Zambito, a Montreal construction boss, said his entry into the cartel that rigged huge public works contracts came easy because his father, Giuseppe, was from Cattolica Eraclea.

Many of the Quebec businessmen accused of colluding with the Rizzutos, paying them 2.5% on contracts, also have close ties here: Domenico Arcuri, owner of a decontamination company, is the son of an alleged mobster from Cattolica; Accursio Sciascia, a paving company boss, was vice-president of Montreal’s Association Cattolica Eraclea, a group for ex-pats; Frank Catania, founder of a road construction firm, is another Cattolica émigré; as are others.

Even the café used as the Montreal mob’s headquarters, where secret police videos were recorded of businessmen handing over piles of cash, was renamed after the town.

Cattolica Eraclea is nestled 180 metres up in the hills of picturesque Agrigento province in southwestern Sicily, just inland from the Mediterranean Sea. Accessible only by twisting roads, the region’s railway and major highway bend around Cattolica on either side, adding to its isolation.

Quebec mobsters and businessmen have deep roots here and some of the wealth of Cattolica’s émigrés has also found its way back.

The ambulance stationed near the Rizzuto’s former family home, a row house on a dead-end street, has a sign painted on its side thanking Cattolica émigrés in Montreal for its purchase. Now old, the town seeks funds for a replacement.

And if money from construction success in Canada made its way here, the infrastructure the companies produce has not. The town is marked by its small, decaying housing stock and a below-average level of employment, according to government statistics.


Adrian Humphreys/National PostCattolica Eraclea is an isolated, hilltop village in Sicily that produced the most powerful Mafia boss Canada has known, Vito Rizzuto.
On its outskirts, hard-won fields of olive trees, pistachios, almonds, wheat and grapes squeeze into arable patches on craggy mountains and in sloping valleys.

Cattolica’s population stands at about 4,000 people — a 38% plunge over the past 30 years — and the town’s demographics skew towards the elderly.

For these villagers, however, the Rizzutos are not just distant relatives or part of fragmentary memories. The influence of the clan has been profound, even in recent years.

In 2009, police arrested six men, accusing them of Mafia crimes in a probe that started by examining Mr. Rizzuto’s assets in Italy. Police said it revealed: “the close proximity of leading members of the Canadian criminal clique, who originally come from this town.”

The accused mob boss in Cattolica, Domenico Terrasi, a 67-year-old pensioner, maintained a “stable connection to the clan Rizzuto,” which boosted his stature with other bosses, according to police.

While the Rizzutos are accused in Montreal of pocketing millions from the construction of roads and sewers, in Cattolica, Mr. Terrasi was accused of muscling in on aqueducts and wind farms. Same game, different venues.

At the headquarters of the Direzione Investigativa Antimafia in Agrigento, the provincial capital where ancient Greek temples dot seaside cliffs, Captain Antonino Caldarella, head of the region’s antimafia operations, is aware of Mr. Rizzuto’s freedom.

He declines, however, to discuss details of any current interest by investigators into the affairs of the Rizzutos.

“It is covered by professional secrecy,” he said.


Direzione Investigativa Antimafia Police say sweeping raids in 2009 tackled the stubborn presence of the Mafia in Cattolica Eraclea, closely linked to the Rizzuto clan in Canada.
Mr. Rizzuto’s situation in Canada is being “monitored” by Italian law enforcement, a federal official said, but authorities decline to say whether they are seeking his extradition.

Capt. Caldarella knows well the problems Cattolica has faced.

He was involved in the probe that implicated mobsters with interfering in the town’s 2007 election, when Cosimo Piro won the mayor’s seat by just 21 votes. Piro’s subsequent ouster and the landslide victory this May of a replacement, Nicolò Termine, a gynecologist, suggests a shift in public attitudes.

There are more concrete signs of renewal, however.

Not far from the town hall is a villa and small square dedicated to the victims of the Mafia. A map of Sicily is mounted on an outside wall with the names of citizens killed by mobsters as a public recognition of the troubles the island has faced.

Even more surprising is a monument found on the western edge of town, in a small park dotted with palm trees. A bronze bust of a stern-faced man sits a stone pedestal above an engraved plaque that reads: “Giuseppe Spagnola, mayor, political leader, killed by the Mafia.”

The public tribute to the death of Mr. Spagnola — and openly blaming the Mafia — remains quietly controversial here and also resonates deeply in Canada.

Mr. Spagnola was the first democratically elected mayor of Cattolica; heralded as the “peasant mayor,” he undertook agrarian reform that threatened the standing of the land barons and Mafia bosses.

Sometime during the night of August 13, 1955, as he slept under the stars, three men crept close, each armed with a lupara, the distinctive stubby shotgun of Sicily.

Mr. Spagnola died in a barrage of gunfire.


Postmedia NewsVito Rizzuto is taken from a Montreal police station after being arrested in his Montreal home on murder charges in the US.
Investigation uncovered a conspiracy to silence Mr. Spagnola. One man, Rosario Gurreri, who did not participate in the shooting but lent the gunmen a donkey, provided the names of three shooters.

The men were found guilty in absentia in Italy, including Leonardo Cammalleri, Mr. Rizzuto’s father-in-law, and Giacinto Arcuri, uncle of Mr. Arcuri, the businessmen named at the Quebec commission.

By the time authorities acted, however, the men had fled Cattolica to Canada.

Demonstrating how the Mafia stretches across generations as well as oceans, the mobsters who approved the plot are believed to be Antonino Manno, who was Mr. Rizzuto’s grandfather, and Rosario Terrasi, the father of the alleged current mob boss in Cattolica who was recently arrested.

And, also demonstrating how Mafia vengeance works, Mr. Gurreri, the man who tattled on the gunmen, was found butchered in 1972 in a Montreal restaurant.

Mr. Cammalleri settled in Woodbridge, north of Toronto, and died this month of natural causes at the age of 93.

“The two monuments to the victims of the Mafia in Cattolica Eraclea are certainly a sign of renewal and change of attitude of the local political institutions against the Mafia,” said Calogero Giuffrida, a journalist from the area who wrote a book about the Spagnola murder and frequently reports on the region’s mafiosi.

Until recent years, erecting a statue to Mr. Spagnola in Cattolica was “unthinkable,” he said.

It makes some people uncomfortable, partly because relatives of some of the conspirators remain active in town — and criminal — affairs, he said.

Even so, there has long been a culture of antimafia activism in Cattolica, but it was often silenced by fear.

“It was not easy to talk about these things until some time ago,” said Mr. Giuffrida.

“Actually, it is not even easy now. But it has to be said, something is changing, even though there is a lot that still needs to be done from a cultural point of view: in the family, the schools and in the parish.”

Meanwhile, he said, people in the region — and, in fact, all over Sicily — are carefully following events in Canada involving the Rizzutos, a family branded as “legendary” because of their exploits at the highest levels of international crime.

“There is curiosity to see what will happen after the release of Vito Rizzuto,” said Mr. Giuffrida.

And there is speculation about whether they will ever see him back in Cattolica Eraclea — whether it is for trial or for a visit.

^^^ Good article. Nice pic of Agrigento, too. Gotta love it.

Cattolica Eraclea is irrelevant today. It's nothing close to what it was when Rizzuto was there, and even years after.
His family has dispersed out among neighboring town in Agrigento. The Caruana's and Cun trera's are all pretty much out of there. They have moved into Siculiana, Realmonte, and Porto Empedocle. Nobody is waiting on Rizzuto or his money anymore. The Caruana's and Cun trera's are heavily involved in trucking industry over the years and do very well on their own, amongst their own clan. The wind farms and utilities and concrete/construction have been taken over by other bosses in Agrigento. Messina-Denaro isn't letting anyone come back and muscle in on any of that stuff in Agrigento, not today and not tomorrow.
Rizzuto has no reason to willfully come back to Cattolica Eraclea, not in a mafia sense anyway. And what family he's got left over there, is pretty few.

That's a beautiful picture. I can almost smell the lemons and the olives .

You mean Giuseppe Falsone? Isn't he the capoprovincia of Agrigento?

Gerlandino Messina is boss of Agrigento, still today. He was named after Falsone was captured.

When Gerlandino was captured, he had papers on his body set to go out to Messina-Denaro, who he is close with. They were about dividing up territories in Agrigento and specifically about the windfarms. Now that Messina is in jail for life, the windfarms are strictly under control of Messina-Denaro. As well as utilities, concrete, waterworks, etc etc.

I don't know anything about the journalist that wrote this article, but Rizzuto is not even on anyone's radar down there.

So Basically Messina-Denaro is the capo di capi in both the Trapani and Agrigento provinces?

All of Sicily. Even though, he really can't be capo di capi, in the full sense of the meaning, being he wasn't born in Palermo. But he's got his hands on everything on that island. Most concrete contracts are his, at the ports, the highways, the Falcone-Borsellino airport (in Palermo). The waterworks are thru him, hotels, everything all over Sicily. His net worth isn't in the billions for nothing.

Don't forget those famous Blood! Oranges and the cactus pears

Who runs the catolica eraclae, since Terrasi was taken away??

Beautiful picture. And the articles are great, thanks for sharing them.

Terrasi is still boss.

Those sicilian blood oranges are pretty good. Once in awhile I can find the juice here, but not often.

http://www.24hmontreal.canoe.ca/24hmontreal/actualites/archives/2012/10/20121026-185320.html


MONTREAL - Vito Rizzuto, presumed godfather of the Montreal Mafia, is back in the city and is preparing to avenge the death of three of his relatives, according to data collected by TVA News Friday.

According to sources, Vito Rizzuto possess not only a permanent home in the city, but it would also take delivery of an armored vehicle with a value of more than $ 100,000.

"The [findings] can be drawn from this information, there are three categories, says expert police investigations TVA Nouvelles, Richard Dupuis. The first is that he knows that his life is in danger and he wants to protect. The second is that it will remain in Montreal. And the third is that it is not an easy prey. Therefore, it is not the hunting, but in war mode. "

In addition to travel safely, Vito Rizzuto benefit from a luxurious pied-à-terre to secure downtown Montreal, his house on the rue Antoine-Berthelet is still uninhabited.

The former mobster has also formed a small clan to carry out an operation of revenge against those responsible for the murder of his eldest son and his father, which occurred while he was detained in the penitentiary at Florence, Colorado .

Nicolo Rizzuto Jr. was shot dead in the street in December 2009 and the father of Vito Rizzuto, Nicolo, was executed in November 2010 at his residence in Avenue Antoine-Berthelet in Montreal.
Two weeks ago, TVA News reported that the ex-mobster was seen in Montreal. At the same time a wave of attacks with Molotov cocktails exploded in the cafes of the city.

Vito Rizzuto left the penitentiary in Florence on October 5, after serving a sentence of less than six years for conspiracy and gangsterism in connection with the murders of three "capital" (captain) of the Bonanno crime family in 1981

This is interesting as a cafe owned by Giuseppe De Vito was shot up in september where I think 3 people were hit and one died. This article fingers him as at war with the Rizzutos. If i remember correctly he is a close associate of Sergei Pirchelli, Giuseppe (Closure) Colapelle (Murdered), and Desjardins. The spelling is probably wrong on all of those names.

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/quebec...res-detenus.php


Giuseppe De Vito is no longer held in solitary confinement. While the mafioso 46 years appeared before the Superior Court Thursday in Montreal to discuss a motion to modify the conditions of detention, it was learned that he was now with the general population in maximum security penitentiary Donnacona, and since September 19.

Sentenced to 15 years in prison for conspiracy to import cocaine, De Vito was first detained at the Regional Reception Centre of Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, the time that it is a prison. This is where, from late June to September, he was kept in solitary confinement. Angered by this, he presented a petition for habeas corpus in the Superior Court to return to the general prison population. But as it has changed since establishment, Judge Michael Stober said yesterday that his request was moot.

De Vito's lawyer, Sylvie Bordelais Me, believes, however, that the problem is not resolved, since his client spent four days in isolation at Donnacona from 3 to 7 October last, without knowing why. She wants to know the reasons why his client was placed in isolation and could still be at any time.

"¿It is a sword of Damocles over the head of Mr. De Vito. Is that I must submit an application for habeas corpus in the Superior Court each time it is sent to isolation ¿? ¿", She asked the judge Stober.

The latter was invited to discuss with his counterpart from the federal Crown for the grounds, adding that she can then apply to the Federal Court, if necessary.

Dissident

In documents accompanying the request of De Vito, we learn that the police considered formally dissociated from the Rizzuto clan and he is even in conflict with members of it. "His safety would be compromised by the opposing clan itself and jeopardize the safety of members of the Rizzuto clan. It is impossible in an institution such as the Regional Centre Reception, where every day new inmates are allowed to ensure, pavilion security held De Vito, "it said in the documents.

Vito, who is nicknamed Ponytail due to his long hair, he always wears in a ponytail, was sentenced to 15 years in prison last June as a result of the investigation Coliseum. He was arrested in 2010, while the police were looking for four years. During his flight, his two daughters were killed, allegedly by their mother, Adèle Sorella.

Vito is who took over the fallen godfather Vito Rizzuto responsible for the death of his daughters. He has a tattoo on their body name and date of the transaction Coliseum.

Here's an english version of one of the french translated articles above.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2012/10/27/20312771.html
MONTREAL — Embattled former mob boss Vito Rizzuto is preparing for battle, sources told QMI Agency.

He recently acquired an armoured vehicle that cost over $100,000, according to a source.

Moreover, sources told QMI Agency that he is officially living in Montreal in a well-guarded downtown apartment.

Rizzuto was let out of a US. prison after serving eight years for a mob triple-murder in 1981. His father Nick Rizzuto Sr., Vito's son Nick Jr. and several other associates were murdered while he was in prison.

It was unclear if the former Don planned to return to Montreal after serving his U.S. sentence. However, sources told QMI Agency that Rizzuto was spotted at least twice in the northern part of the city since his release from prison.

One of those sightings was during a visit Rizzuto allegedly made to a northern Montreal dentist a few days ago.




Police investigation expert Richard Dupuis told QMI Agency that the news of the bullet-proof car and the home in the city’s core should be understood in three important ways.

“First, (Rizzuto) knows his life is in danger and he wants to protect himself,” Dupuis said. “Secondly, he wants to stay in Montreal. And thirdly, is he not an easy prey.”

The 66-year-old's return to Canada coincided with another round of mysterious firebombings to several Montreal businesses. The recent attacks came as no surprise to experts who had predicted a spike in violence once Rizzuto was let out of a U.S. prison.

Sources told QMI Agency that the city’s police are waiting for the bullets to start flying.

Mafia experts have also told QMI Agency that the next few days will likely be critical with regards to any possible changes to the power scheme of organized crime in the city.

Sounds like he's not thinking about retiring, looks like war prep.

It will be very interesting to see how long he will be able to stay alive. He's playing a very dangerous game right now, but so do his opponents. Retiring doesn't seem to be an option, so what's left is war.

What opponents. I've heard that they've(rizzuto clan) have already took back the city. His so called opponents (Arcuris and co) are on the lam. No where to be found. And there father has just recently died. And no they didn't show up for his funeral.

Thats right. DesJardins, Gallo & Di Maulo, too.

Tonymtl... that is interesting... are there any articles out there on this? I find Rizzuto fascinating.

Do you think that Di Maulo and co. are without any muscle?

War Vito!

here is that arrest they made, years ago, regarding Domenico Terrasi.

check out this news guy, reporting it!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ7qhptYEV4&feature=related