A year before his arrest Dom Violi attended a meeting with Michel Cotroni and about 20 others in a popular Montreal eatery named Linguini restaurant located in Baie d’Urfé. So they still were in contact with Montreal. The restaurant in the west of Montreal was later ravaged by a suspicious fire reports said it was a meeting of mobsters exiled in Ontario, who would try to regain control of Italian organized crime in the metropolis.