RCMP fight to keep lid on high-tech investigation tool BY COLIN FREEZE, MATTHEW BRAGA AND LES PERREAUX
MONTREAL — The Globe and Mail
Published Sunday, Mar. 13, 2016 9:53PM EDT Last updated Sunday, Mar. 13, 2016 10:06PM EDT
From the article:
Between 2010 and 2012, detectives in RCMP “Project Clemenza” used a high-tech device to eavesdrop on a group of reputed mafia members who were sending each other encrypted messages on BlackBerry phones. Police believed the suspects were out to settle scores during the power vacuum that had emerged after the jailing of mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
On Nov. 24, 2011, a New Yorker named Salvatore (Sal the Ironworker) Montagna was shot dead on the outskirts of Montreal. Fearing more bloodletting was imminent, an RCMP-led team divulged its ongoing operation to local police, so they could make arrests in that gangland slaying....
