Cammalleri was the brother of Leonardo who was Vito's father-in-law. Cammalleri family comes from cattolica eraclea,sicily. They emigrated to Toronto area in 1950's Leonardo was fleeing a murder charge in Sicily Giuseppe spagnolo I think.
As far as his role in Toronto nothing has ever come to light about it.
Some books suggest he was Vito's top guy or the top Sicilian in the city.
Never come across his name in indictments recently a very good question.
I also know of a few in the MTL area with same last name Domenico being one who was shareholder in company run by the Arcuri family.
You're confusing Vito Rizzuto's father-in-law, Leonardo, with Zu' Ninu's brother, also named "Leonardo." The father-in-law, who was Antonino Cammalleri's brother-in-law, was a brother-in-law of Cattolica Eraclea capocosca Nino Manno, as Leonardo's sister Giuseppina married Manno.
Vito Rizzuto's mother-in-law was Angela Cammalleri, who died in 2009. She was the sister of Zu' Ninu. She is not to be confused with Angelina Cammalleri, the wife of Emanuele Ragusa.
In a significant footnote on p. 1923 of volume 3 of the arrest warrants in relation to phase 1 of the Italian
Operazione Il Crimine anti-ndrangheta investigation in July 2010, an Antonino Cammalleri born May 30, 1942 in Sciacca, in Agrigento, was named. Longtime Gangster BB posters know I have copy-pasted this footnote here numerous times over the years, as it is so very telling. This Cammalleri who is named in the footnote may either be a misidentification of the individual who is the subject of this thread or be another Sicily-based ally of the Montreal Mafia.
The subject of this thread ran in the same circles as important Siderno Group members who lived in Toronto and outside of Toronto -- especially gambling circles -- and he previously lived on Hartley Ave. before moving to Maple, north of Toronto. A relative of Cammalleri is rumoured to have married into the Commisso family of the Greater Toronto Area circa 2005 or 2006.
It is well known among mobwatchers that after Rizzuto was released from prison in October 2012, he stayed with Cammalleri's son-in-law, who lives north of Toronto, before returning to Montreal.
Cammalleri was close to Giacinto Arcuri of Toronto. The Charbonneau Commission inquiry revealed that the Arcuris in the Montreal area were close with the Cammalleris in the GTA.
If any of you are in contact with Paul Manning or are not shy about contacting him, he may be willing to share with you a diagram of attendees at an important meeting in Vaughan that Cammalleri attended in the 1990s.
