The "family" that mafia, Hells Angels and street gang leaders had formed to better share the Montreal drug market was plagued by mistrust and rivalry.
This is revealed by documents from Operation Magot that resulted in gang leader Gregory Woolley being sentenced to eight years for gangsterism and cocaine trafficking last Friday, previously banned from publication.
Arrested in the fall of 2015, Woolley was considered the number one street gang and one of the most powerful "decision makers" in organized crime in Quebec.
The only Black to have been a member of a Hells school club in Quebec, Woolley was a bridge between bikers, mafia and gangs to orchestrate the supply and sale of cocaine in Montreal.
"Gregory Woolley is the dominant figure [of organized crime] currently on the island of Montreal," said a police informant from Montreal in 2013.
Paying but ...
The 46-year-old gangster controlled, among other things, the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve territory, where he sells for more than $ 1 million worth of "coke" each month.
"We are a family," the acting mafia boss Stefano Sollecito told him, unaware that the police were registering him.
Yet this marriage of reason between criminal factions was stormy even though Woolley wanted to "avoid problems".
In addition, the alliance suspected the presence of "moles" who spoke to the police and raised the possibility of cleaning up.
At a meeting attended by Woolley and Sollecito, it was said that the brothers Andrea and Salvatore Scoppa, influential followers of the late godfather Vito Rizzuto, were no longer trusted.
The possibility of putting one of the Scoppa "apart" was discussed, but Leonardo Rizzuto, son of the godfather Rizzuto and one of the presumed leaders of this alliance, opposed it, according to the survey.
"Like a marshmallow ..."
Sollecito had complained to Loris Cavaliere, the former Mafia lawyer who was convicted of gangsterism in 2017, comparing Leo Rizzuto to "a marshmallow" with "not enough column to tell others what to do".
Andrew Scoppa was charged and detained for 15 months after a large seizure of cocaine in the Tower of Canadians, but was released from any charges last May.
His right-hand man, Steve Obadia, was murdered in Laval a month later.
Sollecito and Rizzuto, whom the police also informed of a plot to murder them in 2015, have been successful in the court proceedings last winter.
