Calogero Milioto was one of the men who was arrested on December 20, 2011, in relation to Montagna's murder but was not charged with murder. Rather, Milioto was charged with a long list of firearms-related charges.
The trial of those accused in the murder of Montagna resumed today in Joliette, Quebec. A new murder charge was laid this morning against Milioto.
Some background about Milioto:
*In Paul Cherry's December 22, 2011 article about those picked up two days earlier, Milioto is identified as being related to an associate of the Rizzuto clan.
*Franceso Milioto is the name of the father of Nick Rizzuto Sr.'s older half-brother. Nick Sr.'s mother was married first to Milioto and bore him a son, Liborio Milioto.
*I can write with a fair degree of certainty that Calogero Miloto, one of the accused, has ancestry that descends from the Rizzutos' hometown in Sicily. The poster eurodave had looked into this before me and is also convinced of Milioto's ancestry.
Link to French-language article:
http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/societe/archives/2012/01/20120111-115438.htmlGoogle translation:
Milioto accused of murderDANIEL RENAUD
Le Journal de Montréal
11/01/2012 12:08
JOLIETTE - A new murder charge was authorized on Wednesday morning against one of the alleged accomplices of Raynald Desjardins in the death of Salvatore Montagna.
Colagero Milioto had to undergo an investigation to be released at the courthouse in Joliette, but instead the subject of this new accusation. Since his arrest on December 20, Milioto was merely charged with possession of a weapon.
Milioto and the other defendants in this case, either Raynald Desjardins, Peter Magistrale, Vittorio Mirarchi, Racaniello Felice and Jack Simpson, were back in court Wednesday.
In addition, Judge Maurice Parent, the Court of Quebec dismissed the motion of one of the co-defendants Raynald Desjardins to obtain copies of affidavits warrants for wiretaps.
These mandates include details of the famous incriminating messages sent by BlackBerry before and after the murder of the candidate to sponsor Charlemagne November 24.
