Musitano was shot in Mississauga, a city just west of Toronto that is a suburb.

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/...obster-pat-musitano-shot-in-mississauga/

He was shot in the face.

Hamilton mobster Pat Musitano shot in Mississauga: police source

https://go.shr.lc/2VitHRN

wow
the mafia lately are making all the headlines
whether if it's in italy or usa or canada

Peel Regional Police will be updating the media on scene at 11:00 am as per their tweet

https://twitter.com/PeelPoliceMedia

Reporter and video journalist Matt Ingram, currently working for CHCH News, has been tweeting live from the scene. His handle is @MattIngramNEWS.

Thanks Anti!

The Hamilton Spectator's Nicole O'Reilly has updated the paper's article on the shooting. Link below is to the Toronto Star site -- both papers are owned by the same parent company -- but please note you may hit a paywall if you've already ready five (5) free articles on the Toronto Star site this month.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...-mississauga-taken-to-trauma-centre.html

https://twitter.com/MattIngramNEWS/status/1121433506868092928

Matt Ingram @MattIngramNEWS

#BREAKING Police hold presser, say victim shot multiple times, remains in life-threatening condition, wouldn't say where in body shot, wouldn't say why he was here, will say it happened outside vehicle @CHCHNews

11:19 AM - 25 Apr 2019 from Mississauga, Ontario

Damn! Angelo was whacked a couple years ago, his uncle passes away a week or two ago....now this! Musitanos are definitely done for. Any speculation as to where this is coming from? Could it be Rocco Papalia? He was released from Prison a few years ago right? I am sure he has a vendetta ever since the Musitanos took out His brother Johnny back in 97'.

Jesus a day after his uncles funeral.

If you hit a paywall and haven't found another way to view the article, you can view the story at

https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca...obster-pat-musitano-shot-in-mississauga/

How the media were reporting the story before knowing the victim was Pat Musitano:

https://globalnews.ca/news/5201456/man-critical-injuries-shot-mississauga/

https://www.cp24.com/news/man-critical-after-being-shot-in-mississauga-1.4394360

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/04/25/man-critical-gunshot-wounds-mississauga/

https://www.insauga.com/man-in-mississauga-transported-to-trauma-centre-with-apparent-gunshot-wounds

This has everything to do with the revenge murders of Al Iavarone and Rocco Luppino. Live by the sword, die by the sword. The Musitanos are done. And the tweet about Pat whacking his brother was total BS.

I say they should have waited and let high cholesterol do the job for them....

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mobster-pat-musitano-fighting-for-life-after-shooting-report

Mobster Pat Musitano fighting for life after shooting: Report

Good information in the article to which I've linked below.

Hamilton mobster Pat Musitano shot in Mississauga

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/musitano-1.5110491

I am surprised that Pat let his guard down, I mean after all these years of looking over his shoulder you think he would be looking for something like this. I guess we are all human and we all would have moments of letting our guard down. He probably never expected it at 7 am you know?

Yea this was definitely revenge for the recent hits, but I should say that other attempts on Pat have been carried out in the past, so it was gonna happen at some point.

Also I should point out that the Musitanos may be one of the smaller families and if Pat dies they definitely take a hit, I wouldn't say they're done. As you know, families like this consist mostly of relatives that are on the "IN" and an extended network of associates. I suspect there will be more retaliation from their end to avenge their cousin. This is more like a mustache Pete peasant kind of war filled with vendettas, it's not longer about business.

He lost a lot of weight recently, he’s not as heavy anymore.

Additional important details are being revealed.

UPDATE: Hamilton mobster Pat Musitano shot in Mississauga

https://www.mississauga.com/news-st...obster-pat-musitano-shot-in-mississauga/

If he was moving from place to place, maybe someone at the funeral picked up that he would visit his lawyer the next day.

Pat Musitano didn't attend either his uncle's visitation or funeral.

Updated article, with contribution by Peter Edwards

Holy shit, it’s the Wild West up there and it never ends!

CHCH News had a good segment on its TV broadcast about 10 minutes ago. I had to watch the live stream on the Net because a current Amber Alert in Ontario prevents TV viewers from hearing any audio while the alert is repeatedly playing on your TV screen.

Musitano met lawyer Joseph Irving at 6:00 am. Musitano is apparently involved in a huge fraud case that alleges he didn't pay subcontractors; the company Havana Group Supplies in Burlington (Ontario) was mentioned, and one page of a document was displayed. After Musitano met with his lawyer for one hour, he left Irving's office and was then shot.

Six things to know about the shooting of Hamilton mobster Pat Musitano

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/...ooting-of-hamilton-mobster-pat-musitano/

Here's an interesting comment by someone following the Hamilton Spectator's post on Facebook about the attempted murder this morning:

Hamilton Spectator Facebook post linking to its own article

Joanne Barker
The Hamilton Spectator I have your answers. HAVANA GROUP SUPPLIES. Steve sardinha, zach everett. Linda everett (vice president) I believe the lappino shooting was also involving Musitano. He owns ROCCO Construction that was in hauling. And Pat and Havana wanted to be number 1. Pming you!

Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 6:45 pm [EST]

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Incidentally, the website for Havana Group Supplies does not seem to be operational. Here's a link to Google's cache of the site:

Havana Group Supplies site -- Google cache

Latest Mafia-related shooting exposes epicentre of organized crime in the GTA

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/can...-exposes-epicentre-of-organized-crime-in

Brad Hunter updated his article. A lot.

Reputed Hamilton mafia boss Pat Musitano fights for life after shooting

https://theprovince.com/news/local-news/mobster-pat-musitano-fighting-for-life-after-shooting-report

Hamilton mobster changed Niagara’s underworld

https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca...on-mobster-changed-niagara-s-underworld/

The CHCH News broadcast from this past evening's news is now available. Go to https://www.chch.com/news/evening-news/episodes/?epid=1167&sgid=1, let the video buffer, and scrub to the 3:25 mark.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hami...string-of-mob-related-violence-1.5111046


Shooting of Pat Musitano the latest in a deadly string of mob-related violence

The woman who posted on Facebook may be the person on Twitter who posted three pages of what appear to be some legal proceeding involving a number of plaintiffs and numerous defendants. Musitano's name appears four lines from the bottom of the list of defendants.

https://twitter.com/Joclyn36115822/status/1121755446266814464

Reporter Susan Clairmont of the Hamilton Spectator tweeted at 10:20 am today that "[m]obster Pat Musitano is still clinging to life after being shot yesterday. I got his condition update moments ago from @PeelPoliceMedia."

That Peel Regional Police account on Twitter is their main one; she might have dealt with someone in Media Relations.

https://twitter.com/susanclairmont/status/1121780977221689345

That violi guy whose the underboss of the buffalo family was on wiretap saying he knew these brothers were marked for death. Is it because they orderd that guy johnny pops murder like 20 yrs ago. He was in a different crime family and im betting they didnt have permission to kill a lcn member

interesting,, you have a source ? If it true that Buffalo get more power. Then its make sense that they push this group out.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/can...rld-how-a-drug-plea-has-exposed-a-mafia/

It might be this article. Three quarters of the way down, Violi discusses the Musitanos after Angelo was killed and mentioned Pat being on the lamb/not having much time left.

I support this theory, even though Johnny Papalia wasn't lcn, he was very close to Stefano Maggadino and the rest of the buffalo family. Pat had him whacked in 97. Also interesting to note, Johnny Papalias brother Rocco just got out of prison a year or two ago. But really it could be from any number of people. Pat had this coming from a number of directions...the GTA ndrangheta is done with him.

What makes you think he wasn't LCN? He's been identified as a Buffalo member and capo by various sources.

Only the Musitanos are still a matter of debate whether they were Buffalo members, but I would be suprised if they were the exception.

Antimafia posted a few weeks ago a diagram where pat musitano was linked to several Buffalo figures including a former governor of NY. So he may also be a member of the same family as the Violis.

https://www.insauga.com/police-investigating-after-alleged-crime-boss-shot-in-mississauga

Police Investigating After Alleged Crime Boss Shot in Mississauga

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/...alked-about-getting-rid-of-pat-musitano/

Here's how a wiretap conversation talked about getting rid of Pat Musitano

thats the article i read that in. im just guessing a reason for them getting killed it would make the most sense its revenge for having that coke crack head murdock kill balliro and paps. i think they were both inducted members of the buffalo family going back to the 50tys. wasnt he maggadinos capo in canada? isnt that why he almost went to war with his cousin joe bonanno cause he was trying to go in that terrotory

Excerpt:

In the September 2017 recorded conversation, Dom Violi says the Musitanos were supporting the Cuntreras, who at times are referred to as the "coffee guys." The Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia family is known in the Woodbridge and Toronto areas. The home of Giuseppe Cuntrera, referred to in the court documents as "Big Joe," was targeted with gunshots and fire in the summer of 2017.

Pat and Ang Musitano are referred to in an earlier recorded conversation with the police agent, which is also included in the court file, from Jan. 6, 2016 — more than a year before Angelo's murder. In that conversation, Joe Violi talks about a plan he'd heard about from a hit man to target two people, one in Hamilton and one in Toronto.

Violi tells the police agent he thought the Musitanos and the Cuntreras were behind those plans. But it appears those murders, if there was ever any truth to the plans, never happened.

What a mindf*ck this all is, especially because Business or Blood argued that the Siderno Group and Caruana-Cuntrera family were in cahoots, the latter in effect therefore no longer beholden to the Rizzutos.

the caruana-cuntrera's are still allied with the rizzuto's

Yeah canadian authorities need to take lessons from their Italian or US colleagues, with no pentiti this is getting out of control.

violi said morena that 'they' wanted musitano dead, maybe the siderno group? there is a war between caruana-cuntrera and the siderno group?

Problem with that is it's labelled the "Siderno Group" because its members primarily came from the town of Siderno, but it doesn't have a structure it's just a group of families. The structure are the locali.

There is a strong argument to be made that the Greater Toronto Area Siderno Group is still one locale, just as it was in the 1960s. In 2010, at 43 inducted members, there appeared to be fewer members than in the 1970s, when Mike Racco was the undisputed leader of the Siderno Group in Toronto and had probably come the closest any mafIoso has ever come to being the godfather of Toronto.

Can someone educate me on who the siderno group consists of?

Look up Siderno Group, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; it will give you some idea of who they are.

And within the ‘Ndrangheta, the four main families in Siderno – the Commisso, the Aquino-Coluccio, the Crupi, and the Figliomeni – are among the biggest players, according to Antonio De Bernardo, a regional anti-mafia prosecutor.

But who says the Siderno group is alligned with the Luppinos? Who says the intended target of the Cuntreras and Musitanos in Toronto was a Siderno group member?

Rizzuto said to a police officer that he didn't believe the attacks on his family came from Toronto, but that he believed it was coming from New York. We know now that this was largely true so he was most likely oddly honest.

Also, you know better than any about rivalries within the Siderno group. Maybe some were in cahoots with the Cuntreras (and in effect the Rizzutos) and some weren't.

Yet another theory emerges as to why Musitano was shot.

The mobster, the fraudster and the $110-million-a-month construction business: The story of a Hamilton company’s alleged scam

A company with ties to a local mobster and convicted fraudster is alleged to have perpetrated a multimillion-dollar scam that has resulted in tattered lives and lawsuits across the Hamilton area

Link:

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/...ry-of-a-hamilton-company-s-alleged-scam/

Web Archive link in case you hit a paywall:

Web Archive link

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/a-new-mafia-crime-families-ruling-toronto-italy-alleges/amp

Anything you need to know.

These wars and murders must make every politician on the payroll or who were willing to cooperate with them in past and future must be trying to avoid and ignore them in fear of them being prosecuted due to the heat. We know from the previous indictments that the Rizzuto Cosa Nostra had political strings, wasn't it Leonardo and a few others who were exanorated by the queen for gangsterism?

I truly don't get why these Ndgrangheta Clans and Cosa Nostra families never learn that this sort of continous open violence makes politicians and other business oppurtunities skeeve away and avoid them in fear of being caught up in a headline. I mean I don' really know but if you were a slightly crooked otherwise A4 politician with a family would you choose to implicate yourself with that sort of risky and loud organization?

Canada's crazy these days

maybe violi meant the luppino's wanted him dead

Or the Papalia clan at least they have a clear motive.


Italy
Domenico Papalia, Johnny Papalia's first cousin, was a boss in the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria. He was involved in at least five kidnappings and convicted for the 1976 murder of rival mobster Antonio D'Agostino.[4] In the 1970s, a branch of the Papalia family relocated their operations from Platì to Buccinasco near Milan. Another two first cousins of Johnny, Antonio and Rocco Papalia, used ransom money from kidnppings to buy large shipments of drugs for export. In 1993, authorities seized a house, factory, land, cars and businesses that belonged to Antonio and Rocco, worth over $40 million.[4] The Papalias also operated with the Barbaro 'ndrina in the north–south operation, also having connections stretching to Australia.

On July 10, 2008, in the Cerberus operation of the Guardia di Finanza, several people were arrested including Domenico, Rocco and Antonio Papalia who were said to have controlled the construction sector in Buccinasco, Corsico and Pogliano Milanese.[13] On May 6, 2017, after being imprisoned since 1992, Rocco Papalia, nicknamed nginu, was released.[14]

in other words the buffalo family

Yes this seems internal within the Hamilton crew.

Pat Musitano lawsuit

https://www.chch.com/pat-musitano-lawsuit/

There will be many theories, the Musitano's seemed to have made many of enemies over the years.

I agree mindf*ck is a good characterization........LOL

But the above mentioned theory (Musitano/Cuntrera) may explain why the Cuntrera's were being targeted. It kind of makes sense for now. Given the fact that some of the Luppino daughters married members of a prominent Ndrangheta family and Violi promotion to underboss shows that there may have been a strategic alliance between NY, Violi/Luppino & Ndrangheta to purge remnants of the Rizzuto holdings in Ontario.

These are the victims of the GTA underworld power struggle

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/ontario-mob-1.5112120

Any updates on his status? If he survives and recovers I think there will be a lot of bloodshed.

Anti,

Here is a tweet from that same twitter feed you linked earlier. This is VERY interesting:


Joclyn
‏@Joclyn36115822
Apr 25
Replying to @PeelPoliceMedia

Not a mob hit bad business related to Havana Group supplies @hollyrowe @Kellyrowe @crystallnorton @ waterdowngardens @ zacheverett @lindaeverett

And they posted that as soon as the supposed hit happened, I'm not even sure they knew it was Pat right away and he/she has already posted that tweet in reply. Very interesting and could other heads roll?

Thanks and does La Provincia control them or a single boss?

NY Mafia linked to bloody Hamilton Mafia War?

https://aboutthemafia.com/ny-mafia-linked-to-bloody-hamilton-mafia-war

The informant also indicated that there had to be at least 50 members per locale.

Other sources report that there are 9 locale in Ontario. Some even go as far as reporting that there may be one locale in Montreal.

Any one know musitanos status? Is he still alive? And who is left of his crime family? Does he have enough man power to start sending retaliatory hits?

who's the last guy based out of canada to flip?

Carmine Guido.

Police sting revealed plans for gangland hits on Musitano family

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/musitano-court-documents-1.5115426

This Twitter user posted her first tweet at 1:30 pm on Thursday, April 25. Pat Musitano was found shot and wounded shortly after 7:00 am that day (the call came in at 7:03 am). Media reports from around 9:50 am that day, such as from CHCH News in Hamilton, were already mentioning Musitano's name. (The reason the Peel Regional Police never confirmed his name is that it was not a homicide.)

Nevertheless, this person on Twitter does seem to have some intimate knowledge about the lawsuit. She has continued to tweet images mostly from legal documents, to wit:

https://twitter.com/Joclyn36115822/status/1121466497031970816

https://twitter.com/Joclyn36115822/status/1121755446266814464

https://twitter.com/Joclyn36115822/status/1122871336794247168

https://twitter.com/Joclyn36115822/status/1122871415328391168

I suspect that she or someone she knows has attended the legal proceedings.

Before the Musitanos fell

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-hamilton-spectator/20190429/281496457701764

I believe Giuseppe Avignone is also marked and is the last major member in the Musitano crime family.

A Canadian murder. 'Buffalo's crime family.' Is the Mafia still around?

https://buffalonews.com/2019/04/30/in-canada-the-buffalo-mob-is-viewed-as-alive-and-well/

Ciment,

There is a serious definitional problem with respect to the term locale used to denote a unit of the 'ndrangheta operating outside Italy.

Various authorities in Italy -- individuals who work in government, law enforcement, and justice -- have unfortunately not realized that, in interviews and public statements, they 1) offer different assessments of the number of locali in Canada (Ontario specifically) and 2) hold different views about what constitutes a locale, whether we are talking about the number of members or the number of 'ndrine operating in a territory. These authorities really should coordinate what they say in public and in writing.

By one definition, the Greater Toronto Area Siderno Group in 2010 didn't even constitute a locale because, per phase 1 of the Il Crimine investigation, the crime group had only 43 inducted members.

Give me a day or so, and I'll cite the sources I've collected over the years to show the discrepancies. To start, below is a link to a reprint of an interview with Michele Prestipino, one-time chief prosecutor for Reggio Calabria, that indicates Toronto has one locale and Thunder Bay (a much, much smaller city than Toronto) also has one locale. I don't agree with this equivalence at all, but the confusion arises from the aforementioned definitional problem.

http://www.pinomasciari.it/?p=11376

This older interview also offers a different take on who was actually in charge of the Siderno Group in the GTA back in 2011 despite the fact that the 2010 Il Crimine investigation named seven leaders who were considered to be on the camera di controllo, or commissione.

Giuseppe Avignone is related to the Musitano family right? I thought I read somewhere that he is a nephew of Anthony and Dominc. I am assuming Anthony and Dominic had a sister maybe? That's her kid? Think Giuseppe goes by the name Pino.

Yes him and Pasquale are cousins. The Avignones are also a 'ndrina, originally from Taurianova ( Reggio Calabria).

And how exactly do you know that brothers Pat, Angelo, and Dominic Jr., as well as sister Carmelina, are Pino Avignone's first cousins?

This is how Dominic Musitano Sr.'s newspaper obituary reads near the beginning: "Dear father and father-in-law of Pino and Anna Avignone...." Link to my Evernote item is below, and the item has a PDF of the newspaper obituary.

Dominic Musitano Sr.'s newspaper obituary

Usually, Avignone has been variously described in books and newspaper articles as the adopted brother of Pat, Angelo, Dominic Jr., and Carmelina or as a stepbrother. Stephen Schneider, who wrote Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada, went with the available conflicting information that was out there and decided that Avignone was Dominic Sr.'s nephew. Why does the obituary list Avignone as a surviving family member before the four aforementioned sons and daughter of Dominic Sr. and Carmelina Alampi? The obituary does not make reference to Pino as a stepson.

Looking up surnames of 'ndrangheta members in Italy isn't going to help you figure out a puzzle that only people close to the Musitanos here in Ontario know the answer to; I certainly have no idea what the true relationship is between Avignone and the Musitanos.

Anti, in the Sixth Family they said Pat and his cousin, Giuseppe “Pino” Avignone, had a lengthy meeting with Vito Rizzuto in Woodbridge in '97.

From Today's Buffalo News:

A Canadian murder. 'Buffalo's crime family.' Is the Mafia still around?

https://buffalonews.com/2019/04/30/in-canada-the-buffalo-mob-is-viewed-as-alive-and-well/

Lots of info (some we've already read) from Edwards, Manning and Todaro's lawyer

I see what you mean. The following Italian article refers to Toronto as having a locale and same for Thunder Bay. It gets to be confusing.

http://www.strill.it/citta/reggio/2...nternazionale-41-orinanze-di-custodia-2/

Michele Prestipino also says that Carmine Verduci, resident in the York Region, considered the head of the "local" in Toronto.

Well, this relationship keeps being repeated in books and articles. I wish a more definitive account would come out.

Even an article published today mentions that Avignone is the nephew of brothers Dominic Musitano Sr. and Tony Musitano.

Drug trafficking: How the RCMP busted a Hamilton pharmacy

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/9309442-drug-trafficking-how-the-rcmp-busted-a-hamilton-pharmacy

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/...ngs-of-ndrangheta-organized-crime-group/

Antimafia,

This article defines cells as locale .

Toronto court hears testimony on inner workings of ‘Ndrangheta organized crime group
For the past week, Carmine Guido has testified in detail that he was deeply involved in fraud, drug trafficking and enforcement in a local ‘Ndrangheta cell under Giuseppe (Pino) Ursino, 64, of Bradford.

In one intercepted conversation, Ursino told Guido: "Money's not everything."

The jury heard from Guido and Piccoli's report that there are two basic grades of membership: major and minor.

Piccoli said different ranks of the 'Ndrangheta range from "picciotto" at the low end of "The Societara Minore," or lower level group, to "Mammasantissima" and "Cavalairi di Cristo" in the "Societa Maggiore," or higher level group.

Cells are called "locali" or "locale" and must have at least 50 members, Piccoli said

It also states:

"Was he (Verduci) a member of 'Ndrangheta?," Streeter asked.

"Yes," Guido replied, adding that Verduci had been on the local board of control.

The Italian article refers Verduci as the Head of the locale and Guido the informant refers to him as a member of the local board control.

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mob-war-theories-abound-on-musitano-powerplay

MOB WAR: Theories abound on Musitano powerplay

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/9309442-drug-trafficking-how-the-rcmp-busted-a-hamilton-pharmacy/

Drug trafficking: How the RCMP busted a Hamilton pharmacy
Allegations involve cheque scams, six-figure wire transfers, a $600,000 property in the Bahamas and a player with ties to the Hamilton mafia

These Canadians are insane. LE there need help! The amount of murders is crazy. In the future they’ll be looking back at this time period as a historic mafia war

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thun...ia-links-faces-prison-in-italy-1.1335488

Antimafia you are correct, here is another example in relation to locales and their quoting Gratteri:

Nicola Gratteri, the chief anti-Mafia prosecutor in Calabria, said the ‘Ndrangheta is the only Mafia that is present on all continents.

"I think the foreign country where the ‘Ndrangheta is the most present is in Canada," he said.

"Mostly in Ontario, especially Toronto, and also in Montreal," Gratteri added. "We have found in our research there are at least nine ‘Ndrangheta localis just in Toronto. Which means there are hundreds of members, as each locali has at least 51 members."

the 50 members rule is applied in calabria only, in north italy and abroad usually locali are smaller
gratteri probably misunderstood a wiretaps where a member in canada said 'nine of us' meaning not the locali numbers but the members
obviously there is no way there are 9 locali with hundreds members, maybe 1 or 2 at most

In 2015 they were on the brink of a mob war, according to wiretaps recorded in Italy. Leader Vincenzo Crupi talked extensively about the drug trade and a power struggle with the Mafia in Canada. It seems Crupi was right.

Giuseppe Avignone, Tony Lavarone, Gino Colamartini, Nick Toriello, Angelo Kirkopoulos, Angelo Natale, I can't think of anyone else. There really is not much left of the family as members are too old, or just switched sides.

Thanks for the info

Hamilton mobster Pat Musitano expected to survive Mississauga shooting

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/...xpected-to-survive-mississauga-shooting/

^^^^
Mobster Pat Musitano expected to survive multiple shooting

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/pat-musitano-1.5118664

Ontario investigating allegations of contaminated soil dumping at Waterdown Garden Supplies property.
Residents around the site have been threatened for speaking out, says neighbour Jim Whelan. “It’s gotten totally out of hand.”

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/...g-at-waterdown-garden-supplies-property/

Web Archive link (in case you hit a paywall):

Web Archive link

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Hard to believe that three decades later, Pat Musitano is still involved in the illegal dumping of tires.

Here is another, if you google Project Scopa Hamilton, you will get as an image one of those police charts titled Project Scopa. They show Avignone as being the "stepbrother" of Pat Musitano.

^^^^
Yup. Exactly.

Links:

http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=928495

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUQTGTnX4AYtHAg.jpg

Barbara Brown, who at one time was the justice reporter for the Hamilton Spectator, referred to Pat Musitano as "a close friend of Avignone's" in her October 28, 1999 article about Avignone.

I also recall an article in which Dominic Musitano Sr. was said to have five children (not four, as many of us assume) -- presumably, Avignone would be the first child that Musitano Sr. sired.

http://wiseguy.overblog.com/2019/05...-par-les-familles-de-la-cosa-nostra.html

THE ASSASSINATION OF A MAFIEUX CHIEF OF ONTARIO SPONSORED BY THE FAMILIES OF COSA NOSTRA?
May 4, 2019 , Written by Xav Posted in #Bonanno, #Buffalo , #Rizzuto

Pat Musitano
Pat Musitano
On April 25, Pat "Fat Pat" Musitano, leader of a mafia faction affiliated with the Ndranghetta based in Hamilton, Ontario, was murdered in front of his lawyer's office. Given the current tensions and especially in the Ontario region, or three mafia factions, Luppino, Papalia and Musitano are fighting over this territory, one could think that a war between faction is currently held for a single purpose , take power. But because of recent arrests in the Buffalo family, including Giuseppe Violi and his brother Domenico who went into exile in Hamilton after the murder of their father Paolo, the question everyone faces is "The families of Cosa Nostra can they be behind this assassination? ". The first, who would have refused an enthronement in the Bonanno family, is currently serving a sixteen-year prison sentence for trafficking in cocaine and fentanyl following Operation 'Otremens'. The second, freshly named Buffalo family's Underboss, was arrested in a joint operation by the FBI and the RCMP, the Canadian police, with charges that eventually led to the recording by a government informant. Soldier of the Bonanno family, Vincent Morena. The most likely scenario would be that families Luppino and Papalia, rivals of the Musitano family and affiliated with families of the Cosa Nostra, would be the cause of this assassination. A theory more than likely, but the order to perform Pat Musitano would have come from New York? of the Bonanno family? who has always had a pied-à-terre in Canada or the Buffalo family? Back to back In September 2017, Vincent Morena, who had decided to collaborate with the authorities after an arrest for cocaine trafficking, was inducted into the Bonanno family. That day, on Canadian territory, the Captain Damiano Zummo unintentionally initiated a government informant into the ranks of the Bonanno family. The ceremony itself was rather anecdotal, far from the rites of enthronement desired and desired by this criminal organization. But having become a Cosa Nostra Soldier, Vincent Morena had an easy access to other members that was much easier, the gangsters revealing themselves more easily to a member of their organization, than to a simple Associate. These recordings were of capital importance to the American and Canadian authorities, who quickly realized that Buffalo's family, whom she thought was dead, was still active and worse, had grown stronger. Quickly, Vincent Morena asked Domenico Violi about the current situation of the Musitano family or a few months ago, Angelo Musitano had been shot in front of his home. Domenico Violi certified that the murder of Angelo Musitano was a "message for Pat", to show him that now, his days were numbered. He added at the same time, "before Christmas," Pat Musitano would be "gone," implied, to be murdered. These recordings proved to the authorities that the Bonanno family had a rather special relationship with the family of Buffalo, now run by Joseph Todaro Jr. So even though he fiercely defends himself to be the Godfather of a Cosa Nostra family , it is clear that the Buffalo family has always had very close ties with the Luppino family and it is possible that it would have helped the latter to plant the last nails in the coffin of the Musitano family. The Bonanno family, meanwhile, has always had historic ties to Canada, especially with the Rizzuto family, or its former Godfather, Vito Rizzuto was an inductee member of the Bonanno. Since, his influence on this territory has certainly diminished, but an enthronement of a member of the Bonanno family on Canadian soil could demonstrate later that the Bonanno want to contribute to the reconstruction of some business, supporting this time members of factions affiliated with Ndrangheta. always had historical ties with Canada, especially with the Rizzuto family, or his former Godfather, Vito Rizzuto was an inductee member of the Bonanno. Since, his influence on this territory has certainly diminished, but an enthronement of a member of the Bonanno family on Canadian soil could demonstrate later that the Bonanno want to contribute to the reconstruction of some business, supporting this time members of factions affiliated with Ndrangheta. always had historical ties with Canada, especially with the Rizzuto family, or his former Godfather, Vito Rizzuto was an inductee member of the Bonanno. Since, his influence on this territory has certainly diminished, but an enthronement of a member of the Bonanno family on Canadian soil could demonstrate later that the Bonanno want to contribute to the reconstruction of some business, supporting this time members of factions affiliated with Ndrangheta.

He died?

No, Pat is in stable condition and expected to survive.

He is still alive.

The Bonanno induction in Canada shows the NYC family is still involved over there.

I agree with you but there’s still A LOT of people that will disagree with that statement. I think it’s crazy how many conflicting statements there are about the buffalo mob. Some people say they are calling shots in this war and others say that they don’t exist. I’d love to know what’s really going on but I’m sure we won’t know any time soon.

It's pretty obvious Buffalo still is connected to Buffalo the Violi tapes made that very clear. As far as the Bonanno family running Montreal that one is not happening Montreal is all over the place the Bonanno family would not even know who to talk to anymore.