The Canadian press is still abuzz with the news published yesterday that Nick Rizzuto Sr. received from the Canada Revenue Agency a cheque labelled "income tax refund" in 2007 while he was still in prison.

It's also highly unusual for anyone whose taxes are in arrears to receive a tax rebate.

Link:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/r...zzuto-1.1868426

Excerpt:

Revenue Canada corruption feared over $400K cheque to Nicolo Rizzuto
Big rebate issued to mob boss even though he owed $1.5M to tax man
CBC News
Posted: Sep 25, 2013 5:59 PM ET Last Updated: Sep 25, 2013 10:40 PM ET

The Canada Revenue Agency issued a rebate cheque for nearly $400,000 to a top Quebec Mafia figure even though he owed the tax department $1.5 million at the time, heightening concerns of possible infiltration of the agency by organized crime.

Details about the payment to former Sicilian mob boss Nicolo Rizzuto were unearthed during a three-year investigation by journalists at Radio-Canada, CBC's French-language sister network, into allegations of corruption at the tax agency's Montreal office, which the RCMP have been probing since 2008.

The $381,737.46 cheque was made out to "Nick Rizzuto" and addressed to his house on Antoine Berthelet Avenue in north-end Montreal, a street known as "Mafia row" because it was home to several major players in the city's Sicilian mob.

The cheque is labelled "income tax refund" and is dated Sept. 13, 2007. Rizzuto was in jail then, having been arrested the year prior and charged with extortion, bookmaking and drug smuggling as part of the biggest police crackdown on the Italian Mafia in Canadian history.

Court records show that at the time, he also owed the tax department $1.55 million, which the Canada Revenue Agency tried to collect by getting a tax lien on his home....