Moreno Gallo didn't "accept being deported," regardless of whether you mean he could have said no to deportation or whether you mean he was happy to go to Italy. Once he was in Italy, he asked his lawyer fairly immediately to try to get him back to Canada.
He has also said through his lawyer that he wanted to live in Europe rather than face assassination. So it depends on which statement you prefer. Don't you think it's kind of strange that he suddenly wanted to go to Italy out of his free will after years of fighting his deportation? Shortly before leaving, police informed him that there was a contract on his head.
Arcuri Sr. earlier exhibited neutrality in the lingering feud between Nick Sr. and Violi, but ultimately Arcuri Sr. seemed to have sided with his fellow paesani from Cattolica Eraclea.
Just like others such as Gallo, Cotroni and Di Maulo, Arcuri felt the wind changing and the best thing to do back then was to go along. Maybe it was not Paolo Violi's death that might have upset Arcuri Sr., but rather the death of his mentor Pietro Sciara. Arcuri was said to have been his right-hand man.
Sonny:
If you go through the news articles about Gallo's pending deportation, you will indeed read that Gallo realized that deportation was inevitable and that he would not fight it. But his lawyer(s) filed a motion, five days after he left Canada, to return. One can't dispute the facts: Gallo completely changed his tune, and who knows whether this was his plan all along?
How close was Arcuri Sr.'s relationship with Sciara? Arcuri Sr. seems to have had no problem being given Ital Gelati through the largesse of Nick Rizzuto Sr. We also have to remember that Nick Sr.'s relationship to Nino Manno of Cattolica Eraclea may have been an important factor in Arcuri Sr.'s realizing his place, within the Montreal Mafia, shortly before or shortly after Paolo Violi was killed. Sciara seemed not to have realized his place; therefore, he was murdered. And does it ultimately matter, 38 years later, how close Arcuri Sr. and Sciara were?
We all know Sicilians and Calabrians and other mafiosi descending from other parts of Italy have long memories. But I find it amusing when I read that certain Italian organized-crime figures in Canada have been holding grudges for decades and are now deciding to act on said grudges. In the case of Violi's sons, I have slowly come around to seeing that they would, after all these years, want to kill those responsible for their father's death -- and my change in thinking has to do with the argument that sons in 'drangheta clans are nurtured from a young age in the ways of exacting revenge and specifically avenging the murder of a father. Yet the
Mafia inc. co-authors mention in their book and in their newspaper articles that Violi's sons were merely sought out to give their sanction to Sergio Piccirilli's objective of killing Nick Rizzuto Sr. Wouldn't Violi's sons, given the traditions surrounding the vendetta, themselves carry out such a murder? What were they waiting for? Will Vito himself, according to tradition, seek out and kill the gunmen who killed Nick Jr., Paolo Renda, and Nick Sr.? I honestly don't think Vito will have the opportunity because I don't see him surviving very long after he gets out of prison.
