BIO of Francesco Del Balso - He was born in 1970. He jumped into Canada's organized crime during the 2000s with his longtime friend, Lorenzo Giordano. In 2004, Del Balso along with Giordano owned a nightclub in Montreal called Bar Laennec. In 2005, the police placed their first wire in the club. Francesco proved himself as a loyal aggresive enforcer to Francesco Arcadi and became close to him in business. Del Balso and Lorenzo Giordano ran the sports betting, supervised drug importations and kept in reach with other criminal organizations. In 2007, He was suspected by law enforcement of running the whole Rizzuto crime family sports betting business and had a profit of $500 million in a period of only 11 months. Del Balso ran and owned 25 bookmaking shops in Montreal. Giordano operated Internet and telephone sports gambling out of houses in Kahnawake, Montreal and Laval for Francesco Del Balso. According to newly released court documents, the bookmaking shop in Kahnawake did $391.9 million in business from December 2004 to November 2005. Of that amount, the gamblers lost $165,469,210 and won $147,829,478, according to an accounting study made by gambling expert Andy Durno.