Vito Rizzuto, right, reputed head of the Montreal Mafia, speaks with his attorney Jean Salois after his hearing in Montreal on Feb. 6, 2004. (Ryan Remiorz/CP)
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Vito Rizzuto, the former head of the Montreal Mafia, has died at Sacré-Coeur Hospital following health problems.
Radio-Canada is reporting that the 67-year-old man was hospitalized on Sunday for pulmonary problems. He died Monday morning following health complications.
Born in the Cattolica Eraclea area of Sicily, Italy in 1946, Rizzuto — later known as Montreal's Teflon Don — moved to Canada with his family when he was eight years old.
His father Nicolo Rizzuto, Sr. — the patriarch of the Rizzuto crime family — was assassinated at his Montreal home in November 2010.
Rizzuto had three children. His son Nick, Jr. was assassinated a year earlier than his father, in 2009.
In 2007, Rizzuto was sentenced by an American judge to 10 years in prison following his 2003 indictment for his role in the 1981 murders of three alleged gang leaders.
He returned to Canada in October 2012 and settled in Ste-Dorothée, a district of Laval, Que.
