Apparently agostino knew for about a year that there was a contract on him. He had a very hard time living under protection. The guy never had a bodyguard with him since the 70's. He knew the end was near. The problem with the Rizzutos was that they had no muscle at the time of the killings. They were weak and surrounded by a spoiled rich younger generation. There street soldiers were in prison from the 2005 roundup. Whoever wanted st.leonard and more had to take him out. That was his town.
Yes, but why was Giuseppe nowhere to be found? And even during the funeral, he wasn't present. Somebody close had to have sanctioned Agostino's hit, no?
carmela:
Were it not for you, I would never have known about this theory that Giuseppe "Big Joe" Cun trera was fully aware of the plan to kill Agostino. The theory is tantalizing, and I thank you for raising it, given it had not crossed the mind of any other poster on the two organized-crime forums I regularly frequent.
My opinion, made stronger now by examining more closely the longstanding ties between Montreal Mafia administration members (Vito, Nick Sr., Renda, Arcadi, Sollecito), Sicilian drug traffickers in Toronto (Cun trera-Caruana clan members, Antonio Cammalleri, Ignazio Genua), and the Siderno Group's Commisso clan ('ndrangheta) in Ontario and Calabria, is that Giuseppe Cun trera and Giuseppe Coluccio's partnership is, rather than being sinister, merely a reflection of such close relationships and not anything the old Rizzuto organization would be alarmed about.
You and others may recall the September 25, 2010 article written by Adrian Humphreys (co-author of
The Sixth Family) about the discovery by Italian antimafia prosecutors of seven 'ndrangheta clans in the Greater Toronto Area. From the article (which I can no longer find online):
In their report, Italian prosecutors also state that the two main centres of Mafia power in Canada are Toronto and Montreal, with the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta prevailing in Toronto and the Sicilian Costa Nostra in Montreal.
The two groups, however, often worked together. Such was the case, authorities say, with another key figure in the Italian case: Carmelo Bruzzese, 61, of Siderno who "had, in Canada, a wide circle of family."
Mr. Bruzzese, police earlier alleged, had "deep connections" with Vito Rizzuto, the Mafia boss from Montreal. Mr. Bruzzese spoke regularly with Rizzuto's top men in Montreal and was a trusted partner in attempted public works projects in Italy, authorities said.
The entire "complex criminal organization" in Canada, the July report says, fell under the influence of Rizzuto, placing the Montreal man as something of a global super boss, at least until his arrest in 2004.Carmelo Bruzzese's son-in-law is Antonio Coluccio, the brother of Giuseppe Coluccio. Antonio had been living in an affluent suburb north of Toronto at the time of his brother Giuseppe's arrest in 2008. In 2010, Antonio lost an appeal to stay in Canada, so he, his wife, and children voluntarily left the country. See the Italian-language article found at
http://www.mnews.it/2011/10/12/marina-di...rsa-dello-stato
