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Cosimo Commisso of GTA charged in Project Briscola
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Re: Cosimo Commisso of GTA charged in Project Briscola
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Adrian Humphreys's story about this: Alleged Toronto mobster among 12 detained after DUI arrest leads to unexpected global fraud probe http://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/all...bal-fraud-probe__________________ Note the National Post's caution in the headline. Note also how Humphreys made sure to include in his article Commisso's insistence in 2010 about not being a mob boss.
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Re: Cosimo Commisso of GTA charged in Project Briscola
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Re: Cosimo Commisso of GTA charged in Project Briscola
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Re: Cosimo Commisso of GTA charged in Project Briscola
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Re: Cosimo Commisso of GTA charged in Project Briscola
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The conspiracy to kill two unnamed Sicilian mobsters mentioned in the national post are believed to be Pietro Scarcella and Paul Volpe. I know Scarcella is Castellammarese of Sicilian origin.But not sure about Paul Volpe, I think I read somewhere that Paul Volpe (born in Toronto) is either of abruzzese or barese origin ? For the longest time, I thought Volpe had Sicilian ancestry because that's what older articles, and even newer ones, asserted. Then I thought he had northern Italian ancestry ( Mob rule author's opinion, even though he never mentioned Volpe's roots in the book). Then, on another forum, a poster recalled reading that Volpe's ancestry is from Puglia. The best answer, possibly, is that Volpe's parents and grandparents, as well as his mother's parents, had ancestry from Monteleone di Puglia. Although this comune in the province of Foggia has been part of the region of Puglia since 1929, the comune was previously part of Avellino in the region of Campania. Volpe's father, Vito, was born around 1889. Vito Volpe and Elisabetta (Elizabeth) Russo were married in York, Toronto, Canada on May 8, 1916. Elisabetta Russo's parents were Francesco Russo and Amalia (Amelia?) Trombetta. Please go to the following links to my Evernote items: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s229/sh/b...96b7dd68de374ed (details and images) https://www.evernote.com/shard/s229/res/b78e33dc-3e50-468b-b451-553806524dc9 (image only) https://www.evernote.com/shard/s229/res/61aa2d4e-7580-4152-abf7-4553849a0410 (image only) Canadian writer Jerry Prager is almost singlehandedly responsible for tracing the ancestry of Volpe and other Italian-Canadian mafiosi and associates, whether well known or not. The above links are a result of my own research, which was made easier because Prager had done so much legwork.
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Re: Cosimo Commisso of GTA charged in Project Briscola
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https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/05/28/Two-men-accused-of-plotting-the-death-of-a/1759359870400/I dug out an old article above.. Furthermore, the Mob Rule book gives the reason why they wanted her killed. Vincent Melia brother Nick was having a messy affair with this hairdresser, to the point that his wife had threatened her with a hockey stick. The hairdresser was also witness to a shooting so she had to go. The book also mentions that Vincent is a leader of the Calabrese mob in connecticut. Two books besides Mob rule detail the background to the murder plot and the sting: 1) Mafia enforcer: a true story of life and death in the mob, which is also known as Mafia assassin: the inside story of a Canadian biker, hitman, and police informer, and 2) Police undercover: the true story of the biker, the mafia & the mountie. The latter book can be read for free at https://archive.org/details/policeundercover00mark.
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Re: Cosimo Commisso of GTA charged in Project Briscola
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https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/05/28/Two-men-accused-of-plotting-the-death-of-a/1759359870400/I dug out an old article above.. Furthermore, the Mob Rule book gives the reason why they wanted her killed. Vincent Melia brother Nick was having a messy affair with this hairdresser, to the point that his wife had threatened her with a hockey stick. The hairdresser was also witness to a shooting so she had to go. The book also mentions that Vincent is a leader of the Calabrese mob in connecticut. Two books besides Mob rule detail the background to the murder plot and the sting: 1) Mafia enforcer: a true story of life and death in the mob, which is also known as Mafia assassin: the inside story of a Canadian biker, hitman, and police informer, and 2) Police undercover: the true story of the biker, the mafia & the mountie. The latter book can be read for free at https://archive.org/details/policeundercover00mark. The book "Iced" also makes mention of them.
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