While Rizzuto was in Jail he was head of a consortium of Sicilian and Ndrangheta families trying to build a bridge from Sicily to Mainland Italy the project was to cost billions of dollars.

Since Rizzuto's have fallen and Quebec has opened a corruption inquiry into Government dealings with the Mafia mayors of several different cities in Quebec have had to resign over being in the Rizzuto's pocket and this just from Municipal portion of the inquiry. The premier of Quebec which is the Canadian equivalent to a Governor was not reelected in the last provincial election mainly due to allegations of corrupt dealings with the Rizzuto's.

Coming up here in a couple of weeks the Quebec Corruption probe steers it's direction towards Provincial and Federal Mafia Corruption which you can bet is going to topple several more politicians and others in high places.

Back when the Rizzuto's were are the height of their power a powerful Federal politician of the ruling liberal party Alfonso Gagliano was alleged to be a made member of the Rizzuto Family and close associate of the Caruna-[BadWord]'s. Gaglianio who was instrumental in the election of of former prime minister Jean Chrétien and was said to a close personal friend of his. For those unaware the position Prime Minister of Canada is Canada's Equivalent to the president. Gagaliano was eventually forced to resign from his position of Public Works Minister over the allegation of ties to the Rizzuto's.

At the height of the Rizzuto's Reign which laster some 30 years the family had influence in every major city in Canada and had cells in USA, Italy, Venezuela, Germany, Aruba and Switzerland.

It's all relative but no New York in the last 50 years has infiltrated and influenced Governments at all levels and the legitimate economy the way the Rizzuto's did in Canada at the height of their power. And no New York family has had the kind of international influence the Rizzuto's had at the height of their power in the last 50 years.