Last Friday, two of the latest defendants pleaded guilty and were sentenced. On Monday, Justice Eric Downs of the Superior Court lifted the publication bans that had been imposed at the beginning of the proceedings, allowing us to reveal the details of this document that La Presse consulted last April.
OFFICES UNDER SURVEILLANCE
At the height of the investigation, the bloodhounds installed cameras directed to the front and back doors, and inside the offices of former criminal lawyer Loris Cavaliere. The locals, suspected by the police to serve as a meeting place for influential members of organized crime, were also riddled with microphones.
The document reveals that the Hells Angel of the Montreal chapter Gilles Lambert was seen about 75 times over a period of 20 months, between March 2014 and the day of the strike, on November 19, 2015.
Yet Lambert, a former Rock Machine turned Hells Angel at the turn of the 2000s, had no case in the courts since he was released by Judge James Brunton along with 30 other SharQc defendants in May 2011, in reason unreasonable unreasonable delays. Lambert was not arrested and charged after the Magot investigation.
The chieftain Andrew Scoppa was seen in the offices of M e Cavaliere 13 times between March 2014 and November 2015, four days in a row in the same month of November.
Gregory Woolley, who was arrested in the Magot project and sentenced to eight years for gangsterism and drug trafficking on Friday, was observed nine times. Woolley, a former member of the Rockers, a late Hells Angels club-school, is the only black person to have risen through the ranks of the Hells Angels organization in Quebec. The police today consider him more than a street gang leader, one of Montreal's most influential organized crime actors, as well as Mafia clan leaders or Hells Angels members. .
The document also indicates that the police considered the interim head of the Montreal Mafia, Stefano Sollecito, and the youngest son of the godfather deceased mafia Leonardo Rizzuto - lawyer and formerly associated with the office of M e Cavaliere - were seen eight once each in the premises of the former criminal lawyer between March 2014 and November 2015.
We also learn that a rising star of the mafia, Marco Claudio Campellone, was observed there on six occasions, including the day of his assassination, on September 18, 2015. Before being killed in front of his home in the Rivière- des-Prairies to 20 h 45, the young man of 24 years was seen entering the offices of M e Cavaliere to 16 h 18 and standing out 15 minutes later.
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
On August 20, 2015, investigators recorded an important discussion in the conference room of Loris Cavaliere's office between Stefano Sollecito, Leonardo Rizzuto and Gregory Woolley, which reveals the ways organized crime works, links between organizations and conflicts that existed at that time. The three men discuss including a certain Gianpietro Tiberio in which they would have little confidence. They talk about taking the territory of Rivière-des-Prairies from Salvatore Scoppa & give it to Tiberio. They also discuss the doubts they have towards brothers Salvatore and Andrew Scoppa and talk about eliminating someone, but Leonardo Rizzuto does not agree.
It was this famous conversation that led to the arrest of Sollecito and Rizzuto on the day of Operation Magot, but one judge concluded that the listening was illegal because Sollecito was a client of the office and Rizzuto, one of the lawyers. The two men were released, but not Woolley because he was not a criminal lawyer client.
On September 14, 2015, influential Hells Angels member Salvatore Cazzetta visited Loris Cavaliere's offices. There is mention of a list of people to be slaughtered found in the home of Sergio Nesparoli. Cazzetta asked for a copy of the list and Loris Cavaliere gave him one.
Loris Cavaliere was arrested in Operation Magot and charged with gangsterism. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 34 months in February 2017. He was released on parole last May and is no longer a lawyer.
Leonardo Rizzuto is still facing charges of possession of a weapon and cocaine and being tried in late November.
