I forgot to mention--and I forgot to post an article from a week ago--that one of the defence lawyers argued that the murdered Fred Lavoie was behind the killing of Raposo. For context, see
The jury in this Johnnie Raposo murder trial didn't know that Lavoie was murdered in Colombia. Lavoie had apparently been importing 400 kg of coke into Canada every month--that is unreal!
Re: Arrests made in Little Italy Toronto daytime hit
[Re: antimafia]
#912782 05/14/1709:47 PM05/14/1709:47 PM
I think getting this to trial has been very complicated.
Wiwchar was already facing charges in British Columbia in an unrelated matter.
Nero was facing charges in relation to Project Ink (Phase I, I think--I can check later) and was in prison when he was charged in relation to Raposo's murder.
Alkhalil was hiding out in Greece, and he was also facing charges in relation to Operation Loquace (maybe Phase I of Project Ink, too--again, I can check later).
Caputo was hiding out in Germany, and he was also facing charges in relation to both Project Ink (probably Phase I) and Operation Loquace.
I can't recall at the moment whether Alkhalil or Caputo or both were charged in relation to Raposo's murder while sitting in jail, after first having been extradited to Canada.
Then of course there is the whole issue of whether Alfredo Patriarca's murder was related to Raposo's murder; whether Patriarca may have have been involved in the latter. I'm not sure of all the reasons, but perhaps law enforcement needed and wanted to round up all the suspects before moving things along?
When reading the article to which I've linked below, please bear in mind that, a number of years ago, there was a Project Ink I and a Project Ink II.
"Police investigate shooting death outside Oakville home"
^^^^ Tap/click link on the below to read about the six men charged with conspiring to murder, between 2011 and 2012, the recently murdered Dean Costanza (killed December 3, 2017).
^^^^ Tap/click link on the below to read about the six men charged with conspiring to murder, between 2011 and 2012, the recently murdered Dean Costanza (killed December 3, 2017).
IF you look at some of the names in Project Ink,Clemenza and Loquace.
You can see a link with Rabih Alkalil, Martin Caputo, Liborio [BadWord], Amero,Laventis. This must be the alliance between Montreal mafia & the Wolfpack that Peter Edwards had mentioned in a previous article.
Last edited by Ciment; 12/05/1708:56 PM.
Re: Arrests made in Little Italy Toronto daytime hit
[Re: Ciment]
#927682 01/25/1811:23 PM01/25/1811:23 PM
^^^^ Tap/click link on the below to read about the six men charged with conspiring to murder, between 2011 and 2012, the recently murdered Dean Costanza (killed December 3, 2017).
IF you look at some of the names in Project Ink,Clemenza and Loquace.
You can see a link with Rabih Alkalil, Martin Caputo, Liborio [BadWord], Amero,Laventis. This must be the alliance between Montreal mafia & the Wolfpack that Peter Edwards had mentioned in a previous article.
The Wolf Pack just got a whole lot weaker. Larry Amero, along with Dean Wiwchar, has been charged in relation to murders committed in 2012 in British Columbia. This is very big news.
Hells Angel Larry Amero arrested and charged in 2012 murder plots of rivals
It will be interesting to know if their rivals the United Nations will take advantage of this situation and strike when their down. Also, will the Ontario Ndrangheta begin to apply more pressure on these guys now that their weaker ?
Re: Arrests made in Little Italy Toronto daytime hit
[Re: Ciment]
#927929 01/28/1808:13 PM01/28/1808:13 PM
It will be interesting to know if their rivals the United Nations will take advantage of this situation and strike when their down. Also, will the Ontario Ndrangheta begin to apply more pressure on these guys now that their weaker ?
The July 30 article that Peter Edwards wrote last year ("Shootings, explosions, killings and the bloody fight to be ‘the next boss’ after mobster Vito Rizzuto’s death"; https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...s-after-mobster-vito-rizzutos-death.html) seems to suggest that the Wolf Pack was not only trying to push its way into the Greater Toronto Area but also the Niagara Region. I don't recall there being an article that specifically mentions such an incursion but I do see some hints of this happening. For example, Martino Caputo and Rabih Alkhalil were associated with Nick Nero, and those first two had ties to Larry Amero. So if there's a push into the Niagara Region, then the Wolf Pack 1) may be butting heads with the Musitano group and the Luppino-Violi group, which could be allies, or 2) may be butting heads with only the Luppino-Violi group if the Musitano group still has ties--even tenuous--with the Montreal Mafia faction that consisted of Rizzuto loyalists. But I don't see those two Hamilton-based groups being at odds just because Pat Musitano was on friendly terms with Vito Rizzuto and Francesco Arcadi in the late 1990s (and who knows what happened after Vito went away in 2004, after Pat and Angelo got out in 2006, and after Vito was released in 2012?).
The Wolf Pack may have issues with specific individuals or elements of the Greater Toronto Area Siderno Group (the Commisso brothers and their relatives) and with particular Cun-treras in Vaughan (in York Region). Edwards's article predicted that the 'ndrangheta and the Wolf Pack would each dig in its heels, and I think this is how the conflict will play out. The Commisso brothers are formidable, and I think Anastasios Leventis underestimated the possible retaliatory response from them. What is very intriguing about the article is that you can't tell whether Leventis was killed because he was trying to collect a drug debt from a Commisso or vice versa, but what we do know is that Leventis, who moved from Montreal to Toronto more than a year before the publication of Edwards's article, had moved to Toronto to collect drug debts owed to Montrealers. Was the GTA Siderno Group doing business with people in Montreal like Leventis's brother? Why would the 'ndrangheta try to stiff the Montrealers? And with which Montrealers was business being transacted?
Link to Edwards's article that was published earlier today:
College St. hitman charged in West Coast shootings
It will be interesting to know if their rivals the United Nations will take advantage of this situation and strike when their down. Also, will the Ontario Ndrangheta begin to apply more pressure on these guys now that their weaker ?
The July 30 article that Peter Edwards wrote last year ("Shootings, explosions, killings and the bloody fight to be ‘the next boss’ after mobster Vito Rizzuto’s death"; https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...s-after-mobster-vito-rizzutos-death.html) seems to suggest that the Wolf Pack was not only trying to push its way into the Greater Toronto Area but also the Niagara Region. I don't recall there being an article that specifically mentions such an incursion but I do see some hints of this happening. For example, Martino Caputo and Rabih Alkhalil were associated with Nick Nero, and those first two had ties to Larry Amero. So if there's a push into the Niagara Region, then the Wolf Pack 1) may be butting heads with the Musitano group and the Luppino-Violi group, which could be allies, or 2) may be butting heads with only the Luppino-Violi group if the Musitano group still has ties--even tenuous--with the Montreal Mafia faction that consisted of Rizzuto loyalists. But I don't see those two Hamilton-based groups being at odds just because Pat Musitano was on friendly terms with Vito Rizzuto and Francesco Arcadi in the late 1990s (and who knows what happened after Vito went away in 2004, after Pat and Angelo got out in 2006, and after Vito was released in 2012?).
The Wolf Pack may have issues with specific individuals or elements of the Greater Toronto Area Siderno Group (the Commisso brothers and their relatives) and with particular Cun-treras in Vaughan (in York Region). Edwards's article predicted that the 'ndrangheta and the Wolf Pack would each dig in its heels, and I think this is how the conflict will play out. The Commisso brothers are formidable, and I think Anastasios Leventis underestimated the possible retaliatory response from them. What is very intriguing about the article is that you can't tell whether Leventis was killed because he was trying to collect a drug debt from a Commisso or vice versa, but what we do know is that Leventis, who moved from Montreal to Toronto more than a year before the publication of Edwards's article, had moved to Toronto to collect drug debts owed to Montrealers. Was the GTA Siderno Group doing business with people in Montreal like Leventis's brother? Why would the 'ndrangheta try to stiff the Montrealers? And with which Montrealers was business being transacted?
Link to Edwards's article that was published earlier today:
College St. hitman charged in West Coast shootings
If true that the Wolfpack have issues with the Commisso's and the Cun-treras then this would put Liborio Cun-trera at odds with his relatives in Vaughan, York Region. It will be interesting how all this will play out. It seems to be quiet at the moment, could this be the calm before the storm.
Re: Arrests made in Little Italy Toronto daytime hit
[Re: mike68]
#927937 01/28/1809:11 PM01/28/1809:11 PM
If true that the Wolfpack have issues with the Commisso's and the Cun-treras then this would put Liborio Cun-trera at odds with his relatives in Vaughan, York Region. It will be interesting how all this will play out. It seems to be quiet at the moment, could this be the calm before the storm.
Ciment,
As a result of the Montreal mob war that has been going on for more than eight years now, the close Montreal–Toronto criminal and family relationships that were once clear are now in muddied waters.
I don't care whether anyone laughs at or mocks me for scouring social media to find out information about organized-crime figures. Law enforcement does this all the time now; so why shouldn't we?
Below is a link to a Facebook photo posted on May 14, 2017 on the timeline of Giuseppe Cun-trera, son of Paolo. In the Caruana-Cun-trera clan, Giuseppe is called "Little Joe" to distinguish him from "Big Joe" and "Venezuela Joe." The photo is of Giuseppe and his mother, Nina (Paolo's wife). You should be signed in to Facebook to read the comments, but please note I've also attached a screencap to this post.
The very last comment "Beautiful picture beautiful momâ¤" is by the widow Elena Veltri, wife of the murdered Agostino Cun-trera. Someone has told me that this Giuseppe is also Facebook friends with Giovanna Rizzuto's two male cousins who are the two sons of the man--her uncle--who recently died. (Her female cousin is married to Frank Campoli.) Someone told me because I can't see Giuseppe's list of Facebook friends.
Agostino's status as a made man has always been intriguing. In Antonio Nicaso and Lee Lamothe's Bloodlines: The Rise and Fall of the Mafia's Royal Family, they write that Agostino is "variously described as the number-one member of the Caruana-Cun trera in Montreal, or as the number-two man in the city, operating under Mafia godfather Nicolò Rizzuto." Then of course there is the question of whether Agostino was made into the Bonanno Family.
Only recently was I told that one of the aforementioned cousins of Giovanna Rizzuto is Facebook friends with Cosimo Commisso's wife--the interaction seems to go back to at least 2013 but as recent as 2016. I had already written before that a relative of Rizzuto's wife seemed to have an employee, with origins from Siderno, who installed the espresso machine at the Di Manno bakery in 2015, said bakery having been bombed last year and where Giuseppe "Big Joe" Cun-trera apparently hung out a lot. I had also previously written that a relative of Rizzuto's wife celebrated the spouse's birthday last year at a restaurant in Yorkville (downtown Toronto), co-owned by Raymond Commisso, which is where Vittorio Mirarchi had a meeting in October 2011. These relationships and events are only partially explained by the Cammalleri-Commisso intermarriage that happened around 2005 or 2006, as none of the children or grandchildren of Giovanna Rizzuto's uncle married into the Commissos. I doubt we will ever get to the bottom of these relationships.
There is something that is not quite right with the picture that has been painted for us. Or the picture is somewhat accurate but the relationships are much more complicated than we think.
Re: Arrests made in Little Italy Toronto daytime hit
[Re: antimafia]
#928098 01/31/1809:35 AM01/31/1809:35 AM
^^^^ Tap/click link on the below to read about the six men charged with conspiring to murder, between 2011 and 2012, the recently murdered Dean Costanza (killed December 3, 2017).
IF you look at some of the names in Project Ink,Clemenza and Loquace.
You can see a link with Rabih Alkalil, Martin Caputo, Liborio [BadWord], Amero,Laventis. This must be the alliance between Montreal mafia & the Wolfpack that Peter Edwards had mentioned in a previous article.
The Wolf Pack just got a whole lot weaker. Larry Amero, along with Dean Wiwchar, has been charged in relation to murders committed in 2012 in British Columbia. This is very big news.
Hells Angel Larry Amero arrested and charged in 2012 murder plots of rivals
[45] Det. Cst. Howe had direct contact with only one of five CIs to whom he made reference in the ITO. Consistent with his obligation not to disclose an informer’s identity, or any information that could reveal his or her identity, Det. Cst. Howe described for each CI whether she or he had a criminal record, including offences of dishonesty, or was facing outstanding charges; any indicia of reliability; and the nature of the contact between the informer and his or her handler. The ITO developed in chronological order contact between various individuals including through use of the cellphones whose records were sought under the order.
[50] In his ITO, Det. Cst. Titleman included information provided by a single informant. In a separate and undisclosed Appendix, the officer provided greater detail about the information provided and how and the extent to which it had been confirmed by other means. He concluded by explaining why he believed the documents or data he sought would afford evidence of cocaine trafficking by those alleged to be involved.
[58] The respondent sees it differently. The ITOs established a sound and ample evidentiary predicate to nourish the findings necessary to grant the orders. The core information came from three CIs of proven reliability, and a concerned member of the public without criminal antecedents or any personal benefits in play. Another CI was an admitted participant in the drug culture of Niagara Region and provided first-hand information about those involved in it. No information provided by any informant was proven incorrect. The interpersonal connections of which they spoke were confirmed by physical surveillance.
It appears Nico Nero was correct. There was a rat. In fact there were several and a member of the community.
Re: Arrests made in Little Italy Toronto daytime hit
[Re: mike68]
#928364 02/03/1802:53 PM02/03/1802:53 PM
[3] In the period leading up to the murder of John Raposo, Nero and Caputo were large scale importers of cocaine. Raposo also imported cocaine on a large scale, but his enterprise was distinct from that of Nero and Caputo. It would appear, however, that round about April 2012 Raposo entrusted to Nero and Caputo a shipment of 100 kilograms of cocaine destined for him from the United States. Alkhalil was also involved in importing cocaine; his enterprise was distinct from the others, but it appears that, at least on occasion, Nero and Caputo imported their cocaine by means of a transportation system Alkhalil had in place.
3 different operations.
Re: Arrests made in Little Italy Toronto daytime hit
[Re: mike68]
#928366 02/03/1803:02 PM02/03/1803:02 PM
If Nero thinks Raposo is a rat and decides to kill him without knowing for sure. When he gets some disclosure from Crown Prosecutor after his is arrested and finds out there are really 5 rats maybe then he starts killing everybody around who doesn't go to jail at the same time as him?
Remember Nero got his start from robbing an armoured car and got 1 million dollar, This money is never recovered.
[15] The monies that he received from the armoured car heist of approximately one million dollars remain unrecovered. The position taken by G4S is that Nero is seeking to fund his defence with money that belongs to G4S.
Use stolen money to defend himself in court and then start a cocaine business. He is a funny guy but also litigious.
