Link to Daniel Renaud and Vincent Larouche's French-language article in La Presse appears below. The list you see first -- it appears before the article -- was authored by Renaud only.
Formerly close and faithful Rizzuto, Antonio Pietrantonio, aka Tony Suzuki, would have rallied to one of the rebel clans of the mafia in 2009-2010. He was shot several times when he left a restaurant on Jarry Street and survived.
NOVEMBER 4, 2012
Murder of Giuseppe Di Maulo
The brother-in-law of Raynald Desjardins would have lacked loyalty and would not have acted in a way to defend the interests of the Rizzuto while the godfather was imprisoned thousands of kilometers in Colorado. He was killed while returning to his residence in Blainville by an individual who was waiting for him, lurking in a grove. Di Maulo was shot dead one month after Vito Rizzuto was released and returned to Canada.
APRIL 9, 2013
Murder of Juan Ramon Fernandez
The former lieutenant and trusted man of Vito Rizzuto was found dead in Sicily. Police sources believe that Fernandez was killed because he walked into the local ganglands, but others believe that the avenging arm of the Montreal mafia godfather has crossed the Atlantic and caught up with his former lieutenant, who would have shown too much loyalty to Raynald Desjardins.
JULY 8, 2013
Murder of Giuseppe de Vito
De Vito was reportedly part of the alliance of clan leaders who attempted to overthrow the Rizzuto. He was poisoned with cyanide at Donnacona Penitentiary where he was serving a sentence imposed in the wake of Operation Coliseum which hit hard the traditional Italian organized crime in 2006.
NOVEMBER 10, 2013
Murder of Moreno Gallo
Formerly very close to Vito Rizzuto, the Calabrian would have lacked loyalty to the latter and is part of the coup plotters of 2009-2010. He was murdered in the restaurant of a hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, in what looks like a trap, a November 10, the same day as the murder of the old godfather Nicolo Rizzuto committed three years earlier .
AUGUST 1, 2014
Murder of Ducarme Joseph
The gang leader and his men have always been suspected - but never accused - of killing Federico Del Peschio and Nicolo Rizzuto Jr. Joseph was literally stared at by a gunshot fired at close range in his stronghold of Saint-Michel. Documents from the Magot-Mastiff investigation revealed that Vito Rizzuto wanted to torture Joseph to avenge his son's death and that several groups of killers were on his heels. Joseph was killed after the natural death of Vito Rizzuto in December 2013.
MURDER OF TONY MAGI "IT WAS THE LAST FILE TO SETTLE" Vito Rizzuto's posthumous vengeance is now complete, police say By Daniel Renaud and Vincent Larouche
"He was on the list of those who had to leave. It had been years since we wondered why this guy was still breathing, "a police source told La Presse.
"It was the last file to settle," adds another.
The posthumous vengeance of former Montreal Mafia supporter Vito Rizzuto - who died naturally five years ago - is the assumption favored by the police specialized in the fight against organized crime to explain the assassination of the building contractor Antonio Magi.
The body of the 59-year-old businessman was found shot several times, some at the head, around 11:15 am yesterday morning in front of a garage door of a building under construction on Beaconsfield Street near Saint-Jacques Street, in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce area. The death was found on the spot, although, officially, the authorities first stated that the man was in critical condition.
A MAN MARKED
The businessman has been on a tightrope for years, especially since December 28, 2009, when his partner, Vito Rizzuto's eldest son, Nicolo was killed near the offices of the Magi company, FTM Construction, on Upper Lachine Street.
The names of Magi and a gang leader who worked for his safety, Ducarme Joseph, have constantly come back in the police investigation into the murder of the godfather's son over the years. The entrepreneur has always denied his involvement.
In 2005, Magi was kidnapped for a suspected Mafia affair and managed to flee her captors with her hands still tied behind her back.
In 2008, he was riddled with missiles while on his vehicle on Cavendish Boulevard and miraculously survived. Magi suspected the Rizzuto of being behind this attack and these also denied.
Subsequently, Magi moved in armored SUV, flanked by bodyguards, including former police officers. In September 2010, he was arrested for possession by the investigators of the SPVM, including Philippe Paul, now retired.
"At the time, it was presumed that there was an opportunity contract on Tony Magi and Ducarme Joseph. "
- Philippe Paul
In the criminal environment, an "open contract" is an open contract that can be executed by anyone who wants to earn tens of thousands of dollars. The offer circulates by word of mouth, and the first person to accomplish the fatal mission can come to the premium.
When they searched the businessman's home, the investigators found a semi-automatic pistol in his bedside table and rolls of plastic to apply on the windows to make them bullet-proof. Magi pleaded guilty, but received an absolute discharge. He was often told by the police that his life was in danger and he used this argument to justify his behavior.
After the murder of Nicolo Rizzuto, Tony Magi was the victim of at least two known failed bombings, while a man opened fire in the direction of the car driven by his wife in the winter of 2011 and an individual had was seen, with a long gun, on his private land in 2013.
"In my opinion, Magi had lowered his guard," responded a policeman, trying to explain how he was killed after so many years.
PACT WITH THE DEVIL
According to police officers, Tony Magi's problems and his links with the mafia began when the businessman had financial problems related to the construction of the 1000 luxury condominium building, the Commune, in a old cold store in Old Montreal.
Investors, who feared losing their money, asked Vito Rizzuto to get involved. It was at this point that the godfather placed his son Nicolo with Tony Magi, according to what he himself told investigators who visited him at the penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, where he was serving a sentence. for a triple murder committed in New York in 1981, and investigators Charbonneau commission.
"My son should not die! He had told Pascal Leclair and Jean-François Veillette of the SPVM, banging a table in the common room of the penitentiary in Florence with his fist.
It would be in the late 2000s that Magi would have hired Ducarme Joseph for his protection. According to our information, investigators have uncovered clues suggesting that Ducarme Joseph and some of his men were present on the scenes of the murders of Nicolo Rizzuto Jr and Federico Del Peschio, co-owner of restaurant La Cantina and close friend of Rizzuto killed during the summer of 2009.
Joseph was killed in 2014. "It was a matter of time" before Magi suffered the same fate, yesterday we wrote sources from the judiciary and police. Especially as the time passed, more these delays could have been interpreted as a sign of weakness on the part of the Sicilian clan.
"It's the influence of the family. It was necessary to avenge the violent death of the son. The loop ended yesterday, "concluded another police officer.
HARSH RELATIONSHIPS
But even if the posthumous revenge of the godfather is the preferred thesis, the investigators will also have to examine the affairs of Magi, who was not reputed to be an easy partner.
For example, Tony Magi and his family had been involved for years in extremely acrimonious litigation with financier Allan Schachter. The case came from a loan of 2.4 million granted in 2008 by Schachter to support the realization of a real estate project in the area of ​​the rue Bois-des-Caryers, in which the construction company Magi . The case was to return to court in February, after a dozen round trips to the judge over the years.
Schachter claimed that the loan had been renewed verbally at the interest rate of 12% in 2013, which the Magi denied. A chemical expert had come to analyze the ink of the signatures on certain documents because of suspicions of irregularities. Allegations of hundreds of thousands of cash dollars secretly collected from buyers of homes and condos in the area were launched. The judge had even had to look into the betrayal of Schachter's childhood friend who had gone to work for the Magi family. Some estimates now estimated the claim at $ 5 million because of accumulated interest.
In December 2017, Allan Schachter's residence in Mount Royal was the target of a Molotov cocktail. Then, last May, a building in the Bois-des-Caryers sector was the target of arson. A 61-year-old woman died in the fire. According to our information, the police suspect that the deadly fire could have some connection with this dispute between the lender and the borrowers.
