Police recordings provide rare glimpse inside Montreal's underworld

https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...are-glimpse-inside-montreals-underworld/

Could anybody make a Wikipedia-esque chart of the Rizzuto family, historical leadership?

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/10/30/des-chicanes-de-famille

The "family" that mafia, Hells Angels and street gang leaders had formed to better share the Montreal drug market was plagued by mistrust and rivalry.

This is revealed by documents from Operation Magot that resulted in gang leader Gregory Woolley being sentenced to eight years for gangsterism and cocaine trafficking last Friday, previously banned from publication.

Arrested in the fall of 2015, Woolley was considered the number one street gang and one of the most powerful "decision makers" in organized crime in Quebec.

The only Black to have been a member of a Hells school club in Quebec, Woolley was a bridge between bikers, mafia and gangs to orchestrate the supply and sale of cocaine in Montreal.

"Gregory Woolley is the dominant figure [of organized crime] currently on the island of Montreal," said a police informant from Montreal in 2013.


Paying but ...

The 46-year-old gangster controlled, among other things, the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve territory, where he sells for more than $ 1 million worth of "coke" each month.

"We are a family," the acting mafia boss Stefano Sollecito told him, unaware that the police were registering him.

Yet this marriage of reason between criminal factions was stormy even though Woolley wanted to "avoid problems".

The 650,000 conversations intercepted during this investigation by the Montreal Regional Mixed Squad turned "all around" with territorial conflicts, "communication problems", liars and mafiosi "that arouse suspicion," said Judge Daniel Bédard in an earlier decision.

frictions

In addition, the alliance suspected the presence of "moles" who spoke to the police and raised the possibility of cleaning up.

At a meeting attended by Woolley and Sollecito, it was said that the brothers Andrea and Salvatore Scoppa, influential followers of the late godfather Vito Rizzuto, were no longer trusted.

The possibility of putting one of the Scoppa "apart" was discussed, but Leonardo Rizzuto, son of the godfather Rizzuto and one of the presumed leaders of this alliance, opposed it, according to the survey.


"Like a marshmallow ..."

Sollecito had complained to Loris Cavaliere, the former Mafia lawyer who was convicted of gangsterism in 2017, comparing Leo Rizzuto to "a marshmallow" with "not enough column to tell others what to do".

Salvatore Scoppa was shot by a gunman on his way out of a restaurant in Terrebonne on February 21, 2017. The fugitive Frédérick Silva, one of the 10 most wanted criminals in Quebec, is the only accused in this shootout.

Andrew Scoppa was charged and detained for 15 months after a large seizure of cocaine in the Tower of Canadians, but was released from any charges last May.

His right-hand man, Steve Obadia, was murdered in Laval a month later.

Sollecito and Rizzuto, whom the police also informed of a plot to murder them in 2015, have been successful in the court proceedings last winter.

Ask not what your Gangster BB board can do for you – ask what you can do for your Gangster BB board.

— Attributed to John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1961, the date of his inaugural address

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...bureau-de-lex-avocat-loris-cavaliere.php


The Hells Angel Gilles Lambert was seen by police more than 70 times in the offices of former criminal lawyer Loris Cavaliere in 2014 and 2015.

This is demonstrated by a document entitled Analysis of internal and external cameras of the office of M e Cavaliere and neighboring trade, Denim, filed in court during the proceedings of the Mastiff-Magot investigation. It was through this investigation that the Regional Joint Squadron (MRA) and the Proceeds of Crime Division of the Sûreté du Québec defeated a Mafia-Biker-Street Alliance that led organized crime in Montreal on November 19, 2015.

Last Friday, two of the latest defendants pleaded guilty and were sentenced. On Monday, Justice Eric Downs of the Superior Court lifted the publication bans that had been imposed at the beginning of the proceedings, allowing us to reveal the details of this document that La Presse consulted last April.

OFFICES UNDER SURVEILLANCE

At the height of the investigation, the bloodhounds installed cameras directed to the front and back doors, and inside the offices of former criminal lawyer Loris Cavaliere. The locals, suspected by the police to serve as a meeting place for influential members of organized crime, were also riddled with microphones.

The document reveals that the Hells Angel of the Montreal chapter Gilles Lambert was seen about 75 times over a period of 20 months, between March 2014 and the day of the strike, on November 19, 2015.

Yet Lambert, a former Rock Machine turned Hells Angel at the turn of the 2000s, had no case in the courts since he was released by Judge James Brunton along with 30 other SharQc defendants in May 2011, in reason unreasonable unreasonable delays. Lambert was not arrested and charged after the Magot investigation.

The document also indicates that the street gang leader Jean-Philippe Célestin was observed in the former offices of Loris Cavaliere 16 times between March 2014 and his arrest for drug trafficking and gangsterism, a year later. Celestin, however, was a client of the criminal lawyer's office.

The chieftain Andrew Scoppa was seen in the offices of M e Cavaliere 13 times between March 2014 and November 2015, four days in a row in the same month of November.

Gregory Woolley, who was arrested in the Magot project and sentenced to eight years for gangsterism and drug trafficking on Friday, was observed nine times. Woolley, a former member of the Rockers, a late Hells Angels club-school, is the only black person to have risen through the ranks of the Hells Angels organization in Quebec. The police today consider him more than a street gang leader, one of Montreal's most influential organized crime actors, as well as Mafia clan leaders or Hells Angels members. .

The document also indicates that the police considered the interim head of the Montreal Mafia, Stefano Sollecito, and the youngest son of the godfather deceased mafia Leonardo Rizzuto - lawyer and formerly associated with the office of M e Cavaliere - were seen eight once each in the premises of the former criminal lawyer between March 2014 and November 2015.

We also learn that a rising star of the mafia, Marco Claudio Campellone, was observed there on six occasions, including the day of his assassination, on September 18, 2015. Before being killed in front of his home in the Rivière- des-Prairies to 20 h 45, the young man of 24 years was seen entering the offices of M e Cavaliere to 16 h 18 and standing out 15 minutes later.

SECRET CONVERSATIONS

On August 20, 2015, investigators recorded an important discussion in the conference room of Loris Cavaliere's office between Stefano Sollecito, Leonardo Rizzuto and Gregory Woolley, which reveals the ways organized crime works, links between organizations and conflicts that existed at that time. The three men discuss including a certain Gianpietro Tiberio in which they would have little confidence. They talk about taking the territory of Rivière-des-Prairies from Salvatore Scoppa & give it to Tiberio. They also discuss the doubts they have towards brothers Salvatore and Andrew Scoppa and talk about eliminating someone, but Leonardo Rizzuto does not agree.

It was this famous conversation that led to the arrest of Sollecito and Rizzuto on the day of Operation Magot, but one judge concluded that the listening was illegal because Sollecito was a client of the office and Rizzuto, one of the lawyers. The two men were released, but not Woolley because he was not a criminal lawyer client.

On September 14, 2015, influential Hells Angels member Salvatore Cazzetta visited Loris Cavaliere's offices. There is mention of a list of people to be slaughtered found in the home of Sergio Nesparoli. Cazzetta asked for a copy of the list and Loris Cavaliere gave him one.

Loris Cavaliere was arrested in Operation Magot and charged with gangsterism. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 34 months in February 2017. He was released on parole last May and is no longer a lawyer.

Leonardo Rizzuto is still facing charges of possession of a weapon and cocaine and being tried in late November.

so it proofs the rizzuto clan is still very powerful

Pretty reckless to have a hit list on paper.

Mafia montréalaise: fin de règne sous haute tension

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/10/31/fin-de-regne-sous-haute-tension

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/10/31/fin-de-regne-sous-haute-tension

Montreal Mafia: end of reign under high tension

The reign of the last leader of the Montreal mafia ended in a climate so explosive that the police even asked him to "calm the game on the ground."

This is what is learned in the judicial documents of Operation Magot, which broke up an alliance formed by the Mafia, Hells Angels and street gangs to share the drug market three years ago. .

Publication bans on the details of the investigation were lifted after gang leader Gregory Woolley was sentenced to eight years on Friday.
The alliance was undermined by dissension within the mafia, led by Stefano Sollecito, who had succeeded godfather Vito Rizzuto, who died in 2013.

On November 6, 2015, the Regional Joint Organized Crime Squad was apprehensive of an outbreak of violence by warning Sollecito and the son of the late godfather, Leonardo Rizzuto, that they were being targeted for murder of rivals.

"The situation of violence is becoming so worrying [...] that the police are asking Mr. Sollecito to calm the game in the field," Judge Daniel Bédard said in a decision on the case.

Sollecito and Rizzuto were apprehended two weeks later.

During the summer of 2015, the police had also recorded without their knowledge a meeting between Woolley, Sollecito and Rizzuto. The trio was discussing "territorial problems" in Rivière-des-Prairies, their fear of being denounced to the police by "moles" and the possibility of "eliminating certain people," wrote Judge Bédard.

The police also seized a "black list" of mafiosi names whose head was priced during a raid on relatives of a motorcycle gang associated with the Hells, the Devils Ghosts.

Oil on the fire

Two other crimes had thrown oil on the fire of these internal tensions.

On September 29th of that year, the building housing the offices of former Rizzuto clan lawyer Loris Cavaliere was the target of a Molotov cocktail on Saint-Laurent Boulevard. It was here that Sollecito, Rizzuto and Woolley had been spied by the police a month earlier.

This arson attempt coincided with the funeral of Claudio Marco Campellone, a young mafia gangster shot in front of his home in Rivière-des-Prairies.

Campellone, the father of Stefano Sollecito, Rocco, and four other identified mafiosi police surveillance operations in the Magot project were killed between 2014 and 2018.

Stefano Sollecito and Leonardo Rizzuto were finally released from charges of gangsterism and conspiracy last February because they were illegally wiretapped in the offices of lawyer Cavaliere. Nobody has officially succeeded the first to head the mafia.

♦ Rizzuto is still accused of illegally possessing cocaine and two semi-automatic guns found at his home during his arrest. His trial is scheduled in three weeks.

Épiés à l’hôpital, au Toys R Us et jusqu’aux danseuses

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/11/01/epies-a-lhopital-au-toysrus-et-jusquaux-danseuses

Enquête Magot: Woolley voulait faire témoigner l'ex-policier Benoit Roberge

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...emoigner-lex-policier-benoit-roberge.php

Frayeur d’Halloween pour un chef mafieux en danger

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/11/02/frayeur-dhalloween-pour-un-chef-mafieux-en-danger

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/11/03/la-mafia-sarme-aux-etats-unis

Even though they were heads of opposing Mafia's clans, Leonardo Rizzuto and Raynald Desjardins were arrested with pistols from the same US arms trafficker.
This is the amazing discovery that the police made during Operation Magot targeting the son of the late godfather Vito Rizzuto and other leaders of an alliance between the Mafia, the Hells Angels and street gangs to share the narcotics market in Montreal, Le Journal has learned .

Tension was high in the mafia at the time of this raid, three years ago.

Several of his Rizzuto members, including Leonardo Rizzuto and former boss Stefano Sollecito, had already been warned by the police that their heads were priced by rivals.

On November 19, 2015, the Regional Joint Organized Crime Squad apprehended Rizzuto at his luxurious residence in Laval, as well as conducting a search.

In a kitchen cabinet above the refrigerator, the police found two semi-automatic pistols: a .40 caliber Walther P99 and a 6.35 Browning pistol.

At least one of these prohibited weapons was loaded. The police also seized ammunition, about forty bullets.
The serial numbers of the guns had been made up or removed, as is the case with most firearms circulating in the underworld, to prevent the police from finding their source.

Imported from the United States

Investigators from the Sûreté du Québec, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Montréal and Laval police departments involved in this operation nevertheless managed to find the source by other means.

It is a clandestine supplier from the United States where several strains of organized crime in Quebec have been illegally supplied, according to our information.

As evidence, weapons seized in 2011 at the home of Desjardins and two of his acolytes during the investigation of the murder of the aspiring sponsor Salvatore Montagna have also been linked to the same American arms dealer, according to our sources.

Hidden in a couch

Desjardins was at the head of a group that was trying to take control of the Montreal mafia at the expense of the Rizzuto clan.

His loaded pistol, whose serial number had been erased by grinding, was hidden inside the lining of a couch in his living room. Desjardins is currently serving a 14-year sentence.

Leonardo Rizzuto - a 49-year-old lawyer practicing at the same office as Loris Cavaliere, sentenced to 34 months for gangsterism and expunged by the Law Society after Operation Magot - will stand trial for possession of prohibited weapons and drugs. November 21, before a judge of the Court of Quebec.

Cocaine in a jacket

The police officers who arrested him also seized five grams of cocaine in bags hidden in the bottom of a Hugo Boss jacket pocket.

They had also found nearly $ 50,000 in his home, including $ 3,000 wrapped in a nylon stocking.

Rizzuto spent 26 months in pre-trial detention before being released from charges of gangsterism and conspiracy against him in this operation.

In February, a judge ruled that he had been illegally wiretapped by police officers who had recorded him unwittingly in his colleague Cavaliere's office.

https://aboutthemafia.com/newly-released-documents-offer-a-look-inside-the-montreal-mafia

Newly released documents offer a look inside the Montreal Mafia

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/11/04/le-condo-dun-caid-sera-bientot-mis-a-vendre-pour-855000

The high-end condo, of the dangerous leader of the Montreal Irish mob that was forced to move to a penitentiary, will soon be on sale for $ 855,000 in L'ÃŽle-des-SÅ“urs.

The judicial sale of Shane Kenneth Maloney's luxury apartment has been authorized by the courts, at the request of the Toronto Dominion Bank (TD), according to documents consulted by Le Journal .

The bank had applied to the Superior Court to recover a debt of more than half a million dollars on a mortgage loan that the West end gang trafficker had not paid since he was sentenced to 10 years. years of incarceration, in the spring of 2017.

Drug operation


Shane Kenneth
Maloney Inmate
L'usissier Thierry Pirro from Laval was appointed to sell this condo located on the seventh and last floor of 230 chemin du Golf in Montreal, as well as four parking spaces that belonged to Maloney.

It is in this condo that the kingpin 40 years had been fired from the bed and picked up by police during an anti-drug operation, the project Loquace the morning of the 1 st November 2012. The police had also seized more than $ 300,000.

Maloney, nicknamed Wheels in the underworld since a serious motorcycle accident made him paraplegic, was brewing millions of dollars and was considered a major player in organized crime.

Beaten Policeman

Connected directly with Mexican cartels, the consortium he was piloting with traffickers from several Canadian criminal groups had imported two tons of cocaine and earned $ 50 million in just one year, according to the survey. police.

Maloney also had at his disposal an impressive arsenal of about a hundred guns, silencers and magazines, as well as a thousand sticks of dynamite that the police had discovered in Laval.

He was also arrested with a Hells Angels relative following a severe beating by a police investigator in Montreal, Mexico, in 2011.

The policeman on vacation had been sequestered, threatened and beaten after recognizing and photographing Maloney with other Quebec police officers in a bar in Playa del Carmen. Maloney had pled guilty to intimidation and received two years in prison.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...rare-glimpse-inside-montreals-underworld

Montreal’s underworld: Mafia, Hells Angels, street gangs worked in concert

Smith was arrested in Panama in 2012 after several years on the run.

Hmmmm, so the HA's hit Giordano?

Marc Laflamme-Berthelot plaide coupable à tous les chefs portés contre lui

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...e-a-tous-les-chefs-portes-contre-lui.php

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...presse_vous_suggere_5203238_article_POS1

Man Murdered in Montreal: the victim has a history with narcotics.
The man shot last night in a restaurant in the north of Montreal is Philipos Kollaros, 38.

In April 2015, Kollaros was arrested along with a half-dozen individuals, including a former Olympic athlete and a Canadian Coast Guard employee, as part of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation in Halifax. called Harrington, where the federal police fought conspiracies to import 1200 kilograms of cocaine into Canada.

Kollaros pleaded guilty to conspiring to import 25 million cocaine last December and was sentenced to four years. But subtracting the time spent in pre-trial detention, he had only one day left to serve. He had also been on probation for three years and was expected to do community work.

In 2013, Kollaros was also arrested in the wake of a $ 6.5 million cocaine seizure in Toronto.
According to police reports, the victim was in a restaurant located on Beaubien Street, near Casgrain Street, on the border between Little Italy and the Rosemont-Petite-Patrie area, when an armed man was arrested. burst into the facility and opened fire on it.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...fter-shooting-at-little-italy-restaurant

Update: Man shot at Little Italy restaurant is Montreal's 25th homicide

Philipos Kollaros associate Ritesh Thakur was gunned down 2014 in Woodbridge, see articles below.

https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2014/05/05/police_identify_woodbridge_murder_victim.html

https://nationalpost.com/posted-tor...rams-of-cocaine-in-6-5-million-drug-bust

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/11/08/un-client-de-el-chapo-liquide

A customer of "El Chapo" liquidated
Montreal victim was an importer of cocaine linked to a dangerous Mexican cartel

The Montrealer coldly murdered in a restaurant in La Petite-Patrie on Tuesday night was a client of the dangerous Mexican cartel headed by "El Chapo", the most powerful drug trafficker in the world.

This is what Le Journal learned from sources well aware of the criminal activities in which Philipos Kollaros, riddled with bullets at Café Cubano, was plunking on Beaubien Street in Montreal.

Originally from British Columbia, this importer of cocaine who resided in a luxury condo in downtown Montreal had "strong business ties with the Sinaloa cartel," according to our sources.

Led by the famous Mexican boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, this cartel is the most prolific drug supplier on the North American continent.

Coincidence or not, Kollaros was eliminated while Guzman's trial had just begun in Brooklyn for exporting more than $ 14 billion in narcotics to the United States and ordered 37 murders.

Privileged contacts

Thanks to his privileged contacts, Kollaros was able to "negotiate directly with the Sinaloa cartel" and have access to "huge" quantities of cocaine, according to our sources.

The police have already seen him several times in Montreal with people linked to this cartel, including the ex-spouse of a co-accused of "El Chapo", the Colombian Hildebrando "Alex" Cifuentes.


Detained in the United States, the latter is one of the leaders of the Cifuentes Villa clan which, according to the FBI, became the main cocaine supplier of the Sinaloa cartel in Colombia, after collaborating with the late boss Pablo Escobar.
But the links between Kollaros and the Mexican cartel may have broken off since a series of expensive police raids and the seizure of 220 kg of coke destined for Canada aboard a sailboat in the Caribbean between 2013 and 2015.
Two alleged accomplices of Kollaros, trapped by the RCMP and the Toronto police, were murdered during this period, in Ontario and British Columbia.

In April 2015, Kollaros was pinned with 12 suspects in Quebec and across the country, including former Olympic skateboarder Ryan James Wedding, for plotting to import several tons of cocaine into the country.

"Under the radar"

Last December, he left prison Rivière-des-Prairies after two and a half years of detention. He was still on probation for three years when a killer made him the 25th murder victim of the year in Montreal.

According to our sources, Mexican cartels are unobtrusive, but "very present" in Canada since 2010.

They would also benefit from the Trudeau government's cancellation of the mandatory visa for Mexicans wishing to enter Canada since 2009. The cartels are no longer bothered to send their emissaries to Montreal who "go under the radar" of the authorities more easily.

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/11/08/le-fondateur-de-guess-jeans--aurait-emprunte-a-la-mafia

The founder of "Guess Jeans" borrowed money from the Mafia
The RCMP allegedly heard him parley with Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito

The adopted Montrealer Georges Marciano, founder of Guess Jeans, would have turned to two leaders of the mafia to borrow $ 325,000, learned our Bureau of Investigation.

This is what is revealed by the police filings of Operation Magot against organized crime, which can now be made public.

It is difficult to know if the ex-collector of works of art, beautiful cars and jewels has paid off all his debts to Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito, leaders of the Italian underworld.
In August 2015, however, the two men were impatient, according to a conversation that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) intercepted in the lobby of the Hotel Montreal, the luxury hotel of Georges Marciano, where the businessman has hung from many works of great masters like Andy Warhol and Joan Miró, in Old Montreal.
"Stefano [Sollecito] wants to be paid and George [Marciano] says he has deposited a check in Leonardo [Rizzuto] 's account of about $ 325,000, in an account in the name of a company," he says. affidavit of a police officer produced to obtain wiretap warrants.
Incorrect numbers

Sollecito responds that these "numbers are incorrect". Then Rizzuto says "he meets people at the office in Loris," referring to the lawyer Loris Cavaliere, arrested at the same time as the two men as part of Operation Magot, in November 2015.

The documents do not say whether they have settled their financial dispute, but a judge addresses this loan in its 2016 decision on the release of the two Mafiosi.


He mentions that the investigator on file "acknowledges that the transaction between Leonardo Rizzuto and the businessman Marciano can not be qualified as a criminal transaction and that it appears legal", without giving details.

At that time, the former tycoon of faded jeans was coming out of a long conflict with American creditors. In 2013, former employees managed to seize his Montreal assets for US $ 86 million in debt after he was found guilty of defamation and "serious mental suffering".

The founder of Guess Jeans did not want to explain his loan to Rizzuto and Sollecito.

"Mr. Marciano has no comments to make," said one of his lawyers contacted by our Investigation Bureau, Quentin Leclercq.

His former employee, Donato Trafficante, who was also present at this meeting with Rizzuto and Sollecito, according to the police document, assures that he keeps no memory of it.

"I never heard of money he borrowed from them," he says. Mr. Marciano has nothing to do with them. "

Georges Marciano and Donato Trafficante have never been charged in connection with Operation Magot, which resulted in the conviction of King Gregory Woolley to eight years in prison for cocaine trafficking.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...ds-guilty-to-possession-of-stolen-silver

A West Island resident, who was one of the first people to be charged after more than $10 million worth of silver was stolen from the Port of Montreal three years ago, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to being in possession of a fraction of the loot.

Related article:

https://montrealgazette.com/news/wh...ia-and-west-end-gang-had-charges-dropped

Ce que Vito Rizzuto aurait dit s'il avait témoigné

http://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/1c4e6f18-2663-4556-9526-6442eec1effd__7C___0.html

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ri2BOkfzWvs

An journalist from Lapresse and an ex-cop who was one of the canadian cops who arrested Rizzuto.
They just released a book about Rizzuto. The video is in french.

The interview is mostly about the time when rizzuto was in Colorado and didn’t know who was attacking his family.
Ploting is revenge.
How he was well respected. He was the one who made the peace between the hells angels and an other organization in Vancouver.

How the sicilian mafia has change. Its not the same culture. New members are italians but born in canada.

^^^^
TLMEP: «Vito Rizzuto contrôlait tout»

http://journalmetro.com/actualites/montreal/1918855/tlmep-vito-rizzuto-controlait-tout

https://montrealgazette.com/news/ju...and-library-in-drug-smuggling-conspiracy

Jury convicts man who used Kirkland library in drug smuggling conspiracy

Libération conditionnelle: un incendiaire ignore si sa vie est en danger

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...iaire-ignore-si-sa-vie-est-en-danger.php

https://montrealgazette.com/news/al...-rizzuto-faces-trial-on-gun-drug-charges

Alleged Montreal Mafia leader Rizzuto faces trial on gun, drug charges