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Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: NickleCity] #959081
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lil more reading someone was rite. he was only inducted 3 yrs back in 2015 and bumped to underboss 2 yrs later. im kinda thinking no one else wanted the job. probaly guys to old. idk its probaly a loose family. todaro is also semi retired counting his millions down in florida where he probaly plays golf with a bunch of other retired mob guys from the 5 familes and the other 3 . the commission talk is getting blown out of whatever that word is.

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Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: NickleCity] #959083
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I don't think the commission exists anymore.


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Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: Giacomo_Vacari] #959085
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Originally Posted by Giacomo_Vacari
I don't think the commission exists anymore.


I won't bet money on it. Look at current events in Palermo.


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Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: NickleCity] #959086
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I cant see all 5 bosses even if there acting boss say andy russo the colombo boss. He said it himself im in it for life dont care if i die in jail. Hes as respected as any member in any of the 5 familes. Guy done tone of time i could see him probaly talking to another boss at restaurant down in south florida but 5 bosses meeting in a brooklyn basement is probaly over. But im always wrong so fuck if they want to keep there tradition going they have to meet to set policy simple n plain. That what kept them afloat 100yrs

Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: NickleCity] #959093
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I had a hard time believing it at first too, but maybe you guys are looking at it too stereotypically, with a meeting of all five bosses, and their bodyguards like in the 80's with Paul Castellano calling for meetings ect. Maybe it aint the bosses meeting per say, but representatives of families meeting. A trusted capo, the consigliere or the underboss. Perhaps they are meeting. The commission could still exist even though all the families aren't meeting at once. It could be that 2-3 families representatives meet at once, then at a different time others. There has to be solid lines of communication, is it really far fetched to believe that a handful of different guys from the different families can meet up at a random place to discuss issues, unnoticed, in a huge city with millions and millions of people?

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Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: pmac] #959096
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Originally Posted by pmac
todaro is also semi retired counting his millions down in florida where he probaly plays golf with a bunch of other retired mob guys from the 5 familes and the other 3 . the commission talk is getting blown out of whatever that word is.


Florida is also a place to do business.


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Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: NickleCity] #959107
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Is is possible that the commission is meeting in Florida? Everybody has a heavy hitter in florida


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Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: mike89] #959152
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I mean this pretty much wraps it up for me...I always believed the locals about the buffalo lcn being active because they live there. There was always going to be one of the so called defunct families that got their shit together and got it going again, looks like buffalo is that family....they might be even more active than Detroit.


Both families do have political connections.

https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/ne.../fbi-wiretap-corruption-probe/108987862/


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Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: NickleCity] #959154
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It appears that on the American side the guys that are left are comfortable and not looking to take unnecassary risks,
I.E they aren't going to be chasing people over a $1,000 gambling debt or a few thousand in loan shark money.

No Nickel and Dime stuff
Probably two-three layers away from drug money.

Also the FBI and local L.E. wrote them off including the local media.

For a crime family could you ask for a better scenario?

Imagine the FBI and N.Y.P.D. and local media saying the Columbo's are dead, we are not pursuing any more cases, we have no C.I. there is nothing to investage, We are closing all open cases.

That would be the jackpot.

How does anyone know what's going on in Buffalo?

Wouldn't the above scenario be PRFECT for re-building a crime family?

Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: NickleCity] #959169
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i dont get why the board jumped to the conclusion the us side of the buffalo mob is weaker. what facts. the guy said he beat out 30 other members for the job. he didnt say where they were. also think he might be exaagerating lil bit what if its 20guys. i mean thats still a real family. im guessing new england rite now is 30 tops 40 made guys . philly maybe 40

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i did a lil reseach hamilton is like a small city no where near size of montreal or toronto where millions live

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Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: NickleCity] #959180
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you are right. If buffallo weak why should Violi choice to be a made member ? . So he think it is lucrative to became a made member. although RICO...
That's a sign.

Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: NickleCity] #959208
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Hamilton community leaders vouch for drug-dealing mobsters

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/violi-1.4933813


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Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: NickleCity] #959242
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opi...w-myths-keep-the-mafias-culture-frozen/?

From made-up to ‘made’ men: How myths keep the Mafia’s culture frozen in time

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Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: NickleCity] #959247
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Article from the Buffalo News
Is the Buffalo mob dead or alive?

Joe Todaro working at La Nova during time of alleged meeting in Florida according to his lawyer.

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"His comments are a complete fairy tale, a ridiculous story," Robert L. Boreanaz, a lawyer for Todaro, said of Violi Friday.

Boreanaz said Violi is not a "friend or acquaintance" of Todaro's and noted that, during the time they were supposedly together in Florida, Todaro was in Buffalo working at the family business, La Nova Pizza.

"He was at the pizzeria, working seven days, 70 to 80 hours a week," Boreanaz said.

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Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: NickleCity] #959248
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I would be saying the same thing if I was Todaro
The perfect environment is all but dead

Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: pmac] #959292
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[quote=pmac]i dont get why the board jumped to the conclusion the us side of the buffalo mob is weaker. what facts. the guy said he beat out 30 other members for the job. he didnt say where they were. also think he might be exaagerating lil bit what if its 20guys. i mean thats still a real family. im guessing new england rite now is 30 tops 40 made guys . philly maybe

In my opinion C.A. Is the perfect haven no R.I.C.O.

So if Hamilton and Buffalo boarder each other if you move the power base what 30 minutes away you get rid of R.I.C.O., FBI and WitSec, trade it in for Hamilton L.E. which appears to be very corruptable and R.C.M.P. that is like MICKEY MOUSE compared to the FBI.

I would move everything that is moveable.

Violi got 8 years he'll prob do 4.

If that were USA he would have gotten 15 years and done 12+

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Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: pmac] #959317
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Originally Posted by pmac
i dont get why the board jumped to the conclusion the us side of the buffalo mob is weaker. what facts. the guy said he beat out 30 other members for the job. he didnt say where they were. also think he might be exaagerating lil bit what if its 20guys. i mean thats still a real family. im guessing new england rite now is 30 tops 40 made guys . philly maybe 40


Pls can someone post the link to where he says he beat out 20 guys? Would like to read that

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There are plenty of guys that are made that LE doesn’t know about.....now don’t get crazy like full blown families in smaller western towns but shit there are NY and Philly guys that Feds don’t or didn’t know about plenty of times , it’s mostly when they are bid earners or physically aggressive that Feds get them on there radar .

Now even more nowadays because of massive rats guys that earn that have pedigree or blood want it quiet and some get it that way and other ways that many have no clue !

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Originally Posted by streetbossliborio
Originally Posted by pmac
i dont get why the board jumped to the conclusion the us side of the buffalo mob is weaker. what facts. the guy said he beat out 30 other members for the job. he didnt say where they were. also think he might be exaagerating lil bit what if its 20guys. i mean thats still a real family. im guessing new england rite now is 30 tops 40 made guys . philly maybe 40


Pls can someone post the link to where he says he beat out 20 guys? Would like to read that


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The reorganization seemed to begin in 2014.

Violi himself said he was inducted into the Buffalo Family as a “made” member in January 2015, according to the documents, and around the same time, Rocco Luppino, Giacomo Luppino’s son, was allegedly named “captain” of the group’s outpost in Canada; a younger Luppino relative was asked if he wished to also be “made.”

Violi said he beat out 30 other guys to become Underboss, the documents claim. All would have to be “made members” of the Buffalo Family to be considered for the post.

The mobsters, the documents allege, were clear that Todaro held the reigns of power within the re-emergent Buffalo organization; the men said that nobody became a member without going through Todaro first. They said a mobster in the area was either under Todaro or they needed to pack their bags and leave.

In keeping with mob tradition, in an attempt to protect the boss, Violi and the informant sometimes made a hand gesture instead of speaking Todaro’s name: they would put their fingers to their mouth as if puffing a cigar or cigarette, the documents allege.


https://nationalpost.com/news/canad...me-figure-was-underboss-of-buffalo-mafia


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Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: Serpiente] #959398
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Originally Posted by Serpiente
There are plenty of guys that are made that LE doesn’t know about.....now don’t get crazy like full blown families in smaller western towns but shit there are NY and Philly guys that Feds don’t or didn’t know about plenty of times , it’s mostly when they are bid earners or physically aggressive that Feds get them on there radar .

Now even more nowadays because of massive rats guys that earn that have pedigree or blood want it quiet and some get it that way and other ways that many have no clue !


Especially today where anyone of these guys with any smarts is underground as much as they could be.

I personally know a few that were long time associates here from Bensonhurst and have now recently been made, I do not know if the FBI knows or not however, they haven't shown up on any lists as being made a couple in the Colombo family and one lucheese.

Its not like the feds release a monthly news letter LOL
Who got made

When and if they get indicted they will be charged in the indictment as made and/or if the feds leak via gangland if they are under investigation and they want to "Tickle the Wire"

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Not sure if mentioned yet but wasn't Sal the Ironworker acting boss of the Bonannos!?

Would put the Violi first Canadian admin member theory to sleep.

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Did anyone see this ganster report piece ??

HEY, JOE, WELCOME BACK, BOSS: BUFFALO MOBSTER BIG JOE TODARO MIGHT NOT BE RETIRED AFTER ALL

According to court documents in a drug-trafficking case out of Canada, Joseph (Big Joe) Todaro, Jr. replaced Leonard (Lennie Calzones) Falzone as boss of the Buffalo mob two years ago upon Falzone’s death of natural causes. The Western New York crime family’s underboss Dom Violi, 52, was sentenced to eight years in prison by a judge in Hamilton, Ontario this week in a case where his crew was infiltrated by an FBI agent and nailed for a myriad of narcotics offenses.

he news puts Big Joe Todaro, Jr. back under the public spotlight after more than a decade seemingly on the sidelines of gangland activity in Buffalo running his family’s booming pizza-and-wing franchise, La Nova, off in wiseguy retirement. The 71-year old Todaro allegedly ran the Buffalo mob on an acting basis in the late 1990s and early-to-mid 2000s for his dad, Joseph (Lead Pipe Joe) Todaro, the Godfather of the mafia in Western New York from 1984 until he voluntarily stepped aside in 2006. The elder Todaro named his consigliere Lennie Falzone as his successor.

Lead Pipe Joe died peacefully in 2012 at 89 years old. Falzone cashed in his chips in 2016 at 81. Because of his retirement proclamations, Big Joe wasn’t mentioned much in speculation by mob watchers following Falzone’s passing about who was going to replace him on the throne of what appeared at that time to be a dwindling organized crime syndicate.

The Violi prosecution proves otherwise.

Dom Violi was caught on an FBI wire last year claiming there were at least 30 guys in the organization. He was “made” in 2015 and upped to underboss by Todaro, Jr. at a meeting in Florida in the fall of 2017, according to his sentencing memo. Violi, the son of slain Montreal mob don Paolo Violi, is the first Canadian Mafioso to be named underboss of an American mob family. Todaro, Jr. was in communication with three of the Five Families in New York (Bonanno, Genovese and Colombo) in relation to his choice to tap Violi for the post, per filings in Violi’s case — one filing notes Bonanno mob consigliere John (Porky) Zancocchio being tasked with delivering the news to Bonanno boss Michael (Mikey Nose) Mancuso.

Violi’s uncle, Rocco Luppino, is the crime family’s reputed captain in Hamilton, a hardscrabble factory town located directly across the border from Buffalo. The court records filed in connection with Dom Violi’s sentencing refer to an active mob “Commission,” the American mafia’s board of directors thought to be long defunct.

Lead Pipe Joe Todaro rose through the ranks of the mafia in Buffalo, at least partially, by forging strong ties to the syndicate’s Canadian wing. He helped stabilize a careening out-of-control situation in Montreal in the late 1970s when the Rizzuto mob crew knocked off Paolo Violi and his brothers in a palace coup. Todaro arranged for Paolo’s two then adolescent sons, Dom and Joey, to move to Hamilton and live under the protection of their mom’s family, the powerful Luppino mob clan.

Joey Violi was arrested with his brother last year. He was sentenced to 16 years behind bars back in the summer. The Rizzuto crime family in Montreal has been under siege for the past decade, a fierce and widespread insurgence sending the entire Canadian underworld into upheaval. Hamilton mobster Angelo Musitano was gunned down in the spring of 2017.

Once known for his sway in labor union circles, Big Joe Todaro was booted out of the LIUNA in 1990 for his mob links. But like his father before him, Big Joe has never been convicted of any racketeering-related offenses. Lead Pipe Joe Todaro was a suspect in multiple Buffalo mob murders however never charged in any of the homicides. The younger Todaro became his dad’s underboss in the 1980s and in the 1990s transitioned to his acting boss, per sources.


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Not sure if mentioned yet but wasn't Sal the Ironworker acting boss of the Bonannos!?

Would put the Violi first Canadian admin member theory to sleep.

MONTAGNA was acting
Violi is actual

Big difference

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Thanks Hollander really interesting read that

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once sal the iron guy was deported from nyc his acting boss title was over. still a head scratcher who put him there. 2009 mancuso?. the guys who killed him were on tape saying it to. who does this guy think he is. hes got nobody up here. no friends. he played his hand dumb. should have waited for rizzuto to die. flexd on the grandfather nick then switched on that french guy ray and got killed. that isnt organized crime up there. no structure . just drug deaers killing over turf and pride. died wit vito 2 cents

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also dont get who the street gangs even know who the old guys are up there. theres no interaction in the usa like that between old guys and young black guys. maybe in prison

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https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1141275/violi-mafieux-paolo-domenico-guiseppe-drogue

Threats, drugs and omerta: the mafia is not history of the past. The sons of the deceased Montreal godfather Paolo Violi, who have been exiled in Ontario, have risen to the ranks of this criminal organization, whose tentacles are still very active, according to a major police investigation.

A text Gaetan Pouliot of Survey

Back from a trip to Florida in late 2017, Domenico Violi has good news for his entourage. He just had a promotion.

"You're going to learn something new ... very, very good," he says to his partner with whom he is trafficking ecstasy, PCP and methamphetamine from Hamilton, Ontario. "You're my friend, tell me," insists the partner.

"Do not repeat anything to anyone," Violi said before confiding.

D. Violi: They made me number two, "underboss" of ...

Associate: De?

D. Violi: Not from here.

Associate: Of the whole affair?

D. Violi: The whole thing.
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Partner: Fuck , congratulations, Dom. I'm happy for you.
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D. Violi: He said to me: "Domenic, do you know that you made history? [...] No one in Canada has ever had this position. "
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Partner: It's really big. You have the right to make big decisions.

Domenico Violi had just received a promotion that took him to the top of the criminal organization. For the first time, a Canadian would lead the activities of an American mafia family, Buffalo.

As number two in the organization, some 30 Mafiosi are now under his command, mainly in the United States, but also in Hamilton, says Domenico Violi.

What the criminal does not know is that his partner records the conversation ... and that he works for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

Domenico Violi then tastes his last days of freedom. On November 9, 2017, the police arrested him with eight other people. Last week, he pleaded guilty to drug charges and was sentenced to eight years in prison.

By agreeing to lead a mafia clan, Domenico Violi was following in the footsteps of his father ... murdered 40 years earlier in Montreal.

OTremens Project
The centerpiece of this RCMP investigation was the infiltration of criminal groups by a double agent. A repentant criminal, he had everything to inspire confidence. During the investigation that lasted three years, he became a member in good standing of the Bonanno family of New York. Tour de force, the police managed to record the secret ceremony of enthronement.

Documents filed in court following Operation OTremens shed a rare light on the activities of mafia families in Canada and the United States.

Omerta and prison
Violi is a name notorious in Quebec.

In 1976, Domenico's father - Paolo Violi - made the headlines. A double police officer rented an apartment above his headquarters, the Reggio Bar, located in St. Leonard.

The premises have been wiretapped for six years.

Paolo Violi is involved in a multitude of criminal activities in the city. He even intervenes to influence a municipal election.

At that time, the Quebec public discovered the extent of mafia activities thanks to the Commission of Inquiry into Organized Crime (CECO), which broadcasts excerpts from wiretapping where we can hear Paolo Violi. In particular, we learn that the Montreal Mafia is a subsidiary of the Bonanno family in New York.

Paolo Violi in front of a microphone
Paolo Violi in front of the CECO in December 1975 Photo: The Canadian Press / Doug Ball
Respecting omerta, the sponsor prefers to spend one year in prison rather than answering questions from the CECO.

In 1978, Paolo Violi was shot in the head while playing cards. This event will mark the end of the Calabrian reign in Montreal for the benefit of the Rizzuto clan.

This murder, however, will not end the mafia activities of this family.

Paolo Violi's widow will live in Hamilton, Ontario, with her two sons then aged 8 and 12. This is where they will develop their criminal activities as adults.

Violi brothers identity photo
The brothers Domenico and Giuseppe Violi Photo: GRC
Blood ties are important for this type of criminal organization, says André Cédilot, author of Mafia inc. : greatness and misery of the Sicilian clan in Quebec . "The mafia structure is based on family ties, especially on the Calabrian side. It's not surprising that we find the same names from generation to generation, "he says.

"Paolo Violi's father was a notorious Mafioso in the United States," he adds.

Fentanyl, crack and corrupt judge
Giuseppe Violi, the youngest of the brothers, wondered about his future. Should he join the Buffalo mafia family, like his brother Domenico, or rather follow in his father's footsteps by pledging allegiance to the Bonanno Clan of New York?

On a number of occasions, he will have this discussion with the RCMP's double agent with whom he also talks about settling and drug dealing.

Giuseppe Violi will also recognize that the fentanyl he is trafficking causes deaths in the streets. By his own admission, this is not the first time his merchandise kills.

Double agent: In the 80s, there were people dead everywhere because of crack. It was a huge epidemic, as is fentanyl now.

[...]
G. Violi: I introduced that to Hamilton.

Double agent: What, crack? You sold crack too?

G. Violi: I am the first. I brought the liquid and I turned it into powder, crack.

Double Agent: Many people were addicted to crack?

G. Violi: Oh, after a year, you should have seen the city.

Giuseppe Violi is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence for trafficking cocaine and fentanyl following Operation OTremens. Before his arrest, he was taking control of Hamilton with the bikers, according to his own words.

But his contacts are not limited to the underworld. Giuseppe Violi says he can influence the justice system.

In June 2017, during a discussion with the double agent, the criminal alleges that he paid $ 80,000 to an Ontario judge for one of his associates to receive a more lenient sentence in a case of drug trafficking and possession. illegal firearms.

The judge asked for $ 250,000 and Giuseppe Violi would have agreed to pay him this sum in installments.

A few months earlier, the drug trafficker even mentioned the possibility of another person taking responsibility for his partner's crimes. We have a lot of very loyal people who can do that, he would have said, adding that he would pay that person between $ 100,000 and $ 150,000.

Such revelations do not surprise André Cédilot. "The strength of the mafia is its network of contacts," says the mafia specialist.

The mafia infiltrate everywhere. They have incredible contacts in all circles: political, business, judicial.

André Cédilot, mafia specialist
Mr. Cédilot claims that the police had suspicions of infiltration of the judiciary during the extradition of Vito Rizzuto in the United States in the early 2000s.

Despite serious criminal charges, the Violi brothers also received letters of support from influential members of the Hamilton community in court proceedings. A former director of the city's airport, among others, wanted to highlight the generosity of Domenico Violi who, during the holiday season, gave turkeys to the poor.

On a table, we see $ 100 bills and bank documents
Documents and money raided by Domenico Violi in November 2017 Photo: RCMP
Operation OTremens demonstrates that the Mafia is still well structured in North America.

The famous "commission", the dispute resolution body of the American mafia, is still active, we learn from the mouth of Domenico Violi.

Forty years after the murder of their father, the Violi sons speak of the same active criminal clans at the time: Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino and Genovese ... Another group of criminal interests the Violi: the Montreal mafia.

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Meanwhile in Montreal
In September 2016, Domenico Violi says that the situation is stabilizing in the Quebec metropolis. Everyone is working together nowadays, the old barriers are gone, he said, according to the double agent.

Domenico Violi invited him to meet Frank Arcadi, Frank Cotroni Jr. and Antonio "Tony" Mucci.

In Montreal, these three names are associated with organized crime.

Frank Arcadi, one of the Rizzuto clan's lieutenants, was convicted of trafficking in cocaine and gangsterism. Frank Cotroni Jr., son of the famous mafioso of the same name, was sentenced in the 90s to eight years of penitentiary for conspiracy to import cocaine.

Tony Mucci, himself, admitted to shooting journalist Jean-Pierre Charbonneau in the newsroom of the daily newspaper Le Devoir in 1973. The reporter, who was investigating the mafia, will be shot in the forearm.

Man of Paolo Violi, Mucci frequented the Reggio Bar and will be called to testify at the CECO.

Tony Mucci wears smoked glasses and a long coat
Photo of police spinning Tony Mucci in the 70s, as he prepares to enter the Reggio Bar, Saint-Leonard Photo: Gangsters and mafiosi / Editions de l'Homme
A search of Domenico Violi's home showed that he was interested in what was happening in the city.

Among the documents seized are newspaper articles on the Montreal Mafia, as well as documents from the Colisée Anti-Mafia Operation, which decapitated the Rizzuto clan in 2006.

The police also seized drugs, an autographed poster of the television series The Sopranos , as well as several phones and computers.

Several types of cell phones are gathered on a table
Cell phones found by police in Domenico Violi's residence Photo: RCMP
Since the time of Paolo Violi, mafia techniques have been refined. They communicate thanks to encrypted electronic messages.

But, ironically, it is the old police techniques that allowed the RCMP to arrest the Violi brothers in Hamilton. Like their father, they were trapped by a double agent and wiretapped.

Re: Evidence Violi Brothers are Buffalo C.F. members? [Re: Ciment] #959498
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^^^^ Thanks for posting.... I thought this was interesting:
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As number two in the organization, some 30 Mafiosi are now under his command, mainly in the United States, but also in Hamilton, says Domenico Violi.


I also found this interesting about the situation in Montreal:

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Meanwhile in Montreal
In September 2016, Domenico Violi says that the situation is stabilizing in the Quebec metropolis. Everyone is working together nowadays, the old barriers are gone, he said, according to the double agent.

Domenico Violi invited him to meet Frank Arcadi, Frank Cotroni Jr. and Antonio "Tony" Mucci.



Quick note about this thread... I want to make a correction to my opening post. I wrote:
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...Of course we now have a copy of a conversation between Pat Musitano and Johnny Catz of Buffalo that shows the two families were still tight and working together—indicating Buffalo did order the hit on Pops.


I should have wrote: "--indicating Buffalo did give permission for the hit on Pops.

I'd go back and make that edit, but can't. I think this shows Buffalo was still strong enough they needed to be consulted, but doesn't indicate they ordered it.

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