At the time, the Montreal Mafia apparently began trafficking in drugs in Laval, which for years had been controlled by the Hells Angels — until they were hit by a major police operation in 2001.

“Lorenzo” presumably was a reference to Lorenzo Giordano, a Mafia leader who was killed in Laval in 2016. Sollecito recounts how Lajoie-Smith expected Giordano to pay him a tax on territory the biker gang used to control.

“That was a big problem between Animal and Lorenzo — a big one,” Sollecito recalls.

“I called (Vito) for me to sit down and listen to what was going on. They fixed the problem. Animal was pissed at me,” Sollecito says.