http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justic...-en-ontario.php

The sons of a former Montreal Mafia godfather charged in Ontario.
A total of nine people, including the Violi sons, were arrested for 75 offenses including fentanyl trafficking, cocaine import and trafficking, methamphetamine trafficking, arms trafficking and contraband tobacco trafficking. The arrested suspects, all of whom are residents of Ontario, had connections with members of the Bonnano family in New York, many of whom were arrested simultaneously by the FBI today.

https://www.mississauga.com/news-story/7...pSpqyHQ.twitter

Mississauga man arrested in RCMP organized crime sweep

http://www.cp24.com/news/drug-trafficking-ring-corrupted-tps-employee-to-spy-for-them-rcmp-1.3670788

Drug trafficking ring ‘corrupted’ TPS employee to spy for them: RCMP

FBI and Canadian cops arrest alleged mafia members in fentanyl trafficking bust

https://news.vice.com/story/fbi-and-cana...rafficking-bust

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2017/r...ed-crime-canada

RCMP GTA CFSEU and its policing partners land a tremendous blow to organized crime in Canada

In the press conference, the RCMP said the investigation was a result of someone up high in OC flipping. Also, said the investigation discovered renewed connections between Gambinos, Bonannos, Buffalo, GTA and Montreal.

The guy that flipped, did they mention if he was from Canada or the USA ?

They didn't say who flipped but if history is an indicator, he was from the USA

Globe and Mail
MOLLY HAYES Nov.9,2017


In Canada, brothers Domenico and Giuseppe Violi and Giovanni Commisso are among more than 10 people facing charges, police said.

Across the border, a parallel but separate investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation into the Cosa Nostra in New York has led to the arrests of members and associates of both the Bonanno and Gambino crime families, Special Agent Michael McGarrity said Thursday.

Fourteen search warrants were executed at homes and businesses across the Greater Toronto And Hamilton Area and Montreal Thursday morning. A number of drug charges been laid in relation to the importation, exportation, and trafficking of drugs including contraband tobacco, cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and carfentanil.

Charges related to weapons trafficking, illegal gaming, extortion and money laundering have also been laid.

Undercover operations throughout the investigation saw police purchase six kilograms of fentanyl and carfentanil, they say. Police say that, after dilution, three times that volume would've made it on to the streets.

With thousands of Canadians dying from these potent drugs every year, Supt. Leather described this seizure as a "significant dent" in the market.

"How long that impact lasts, time will tell," he said.

I agree.

These guys were pushing fentanyl, they should be locked up for life. Living in the city of Baltimore and seeing the destruction it causes is heartbreaking.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/rcmp-announ...mp;_gsc=QoeucTV

RCMP announces major bust with links to organized crime in Canada and U.S.

https://t.co/LGfM5UI3pB

Givanni Commisso name does not appear on the RCMP web page. I question if Globe & Mail may have made a mistake about him unless there is more information to come.

I wonder if it's that Bonnano Capo that flipped , the one that took out that cops eye with a pitcher.

I feel like there has been a big increase in Gambino and possible Bonnano wholesale narcotics trafficking . With the Sicilians in charge of the Gambinos , Sicily trying to get their dope game back up and the sheer growth and power of Calabrian wealth, international network and power at peak levels and all the FBI/ DEA focus on the Mexicans and Dominicans and their routes , its hard for me to believe that the Italians haven't significantly upped their dope wholesale racket in the USA

My hunch is it up pretty big from 10 years ago but that's a total guess on my part

Induction ceremony recorderd!

https://www.google.nl/amp/s/www.newsday....mony-1.14873268

Wow, shit is going to hit the fan.

It is heartbreaking, it's happening in many locations across north america.

By the Bonannos in Canada... So if I'm getting this right they still induct guys over there into their borgata which means that they are still active there.

I fear some guys here may be getting a stroke.

Good catch--this means the cooperating witness could be Italian-Canadian.

here is the FBI's press release:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/mem...milies-arrested

If he is, he would likely be someone in-the-know about the conflicts over there.

This may very well be the beginning of something big in terms of information gathering for us mobwatchers (or mob enthusiasts).

I read the guy who became a full-fledged member and recorderd it is an undercover agent.

https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2017/...ng-arrests.html

The RCMP and FBI have made a string of arrests involving fentanyl trafficking by a long-established Hamilton crime group and the Gambino organized family of New York.

If it was the Feds they would have played that up. I think the associate just taped his making ceremony ala the Boston recording.

If it was only audio but they also have video.

So the violi brothers are part of the buffalo tadaro family? Maybe that's why Vito rizzuto couldn't kill them. Isn't that tadaro guy always on like the food network on cooking shows. It say the bonanno inductee wore the wire at his induction in Canada so I'm gonna guess Montreal. Seems they back together with the NYC family

@ Sonny Black


I don't think Cotroni ever STOPPED being the Bonnanos official capo, in Montreal. The question was always, the Bonnanos exert control in Montreal through the Cotronis. The Rizzutos were in control of the heroin. Did the Cotronis control the Rizzutos, and by extension, the heroin network, and by extension, did the Bonnanos control the heroin network?

I think it's clear, the Cotronis didn't control the Rizzutos.

( I read something on another forum, about George from Canada being killed cause he killed one of Cotronis sons, then they went and hid the info, lol...)

What I see here is the Bonnanos:
1. Trying to establish their own international connections to the drug pipelines.
They are doing this through the Violis, who, were described as having international reach, likely plugged into the coke network through Calabria.

2. Rectified a mistake made decades ago by actively working with the Violis, who were part of the original decina that was loyal to the Bonnanos.

3. They SENT THEIR OWN GUY UP THERE TO LOOK AFTER THEIR INTEREST!!!

Biggest reason they lost out from the get-go is they relied on initiating Sicilians to look after their interest, when the Sicilians were looking after THEIR own interest. They shoulda sent Americans up there to keep an eye on things, instead of being content with just a cut of the money.

Interesting they made a point of saying, " You answer to the Bonnano Family"..... They shoulda told Nick Rizzuto that...... Instead of allowing him to disrespect Violi, Their official representative....


4. Y'all know we gotta have a serious discussion about Buffalo now right?
(How long before JustSayNo shows up???!!)


It doesn't surprise me, take this from Mafia Summit.......

“But Magaddino of Buffalo controlled the smuggling routes from Canada, and that lent him enormous weight. Within the organization schema of organized crime, the Queen City, the City of Good Neighbors, the City of Light—all chamber of commerce nicknames for Buffalo—possessed a surprising primacy.


In this sense, strictly in terms of the 1950s mob geography, the choice of Apalachin had a logic all its own. Dope was becoming more and more the new reality of the mob, and Apalachin fell squarely within the territory of Magaddino, one of the country’s leading dope smugglers. Concealed in trucks and cars rattling down from Buffalo, headed to New York City on Route 17, shipments of heroin completed the last leg of their long international journey.


So this isn't even a new thing, like at ALL.

Also, if the Violis were now in control of what's left of Buffalo, maybe they have influence on the border up there as well, this would make them pretty powerful in the drug game....

5. The guy who taped the ceremony, this is a good example of why the most successful drug cartel-clans, are based on family. Because all they really need is TRUST.

6. It's interesting, all these years, looking for made guys, large street crews-street presence, nothing. But they start tracing the drug routes and players, and Lo and behold, a Buffalo LCN operation is unearthed.......

The arrests of Giovanni Commisso and Jing Git Wong last month were linked to this operation.

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/cong...video-by-police

Undercover agent inducted into Mafia in secret ceremony captured on video by police.
The incident was an unexpected highlight in a large drugs, guns and money probe snaring alleged mob figures on both sides of the Canada-U.S. borders