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He was released from prison on October 5, 2012, and immediately deported to Toronto, Ontario. Reports suggested that upon his arrival in Canada, Rizzuto met with representatives of the New York Mafia families, and laid low in Toronto for a while before moving back to Montreal. Sources indicated that he had bought an armoured vehicle and was living in a wellguarded apartment, suggesting Rizzuto knew his life was in danger, yet wanted to send a message that he was back and would not be easy prey.

On February 11, 2005, an arrest warrant was issued in Rome against Rizzuto in connection with alleged Mafia involvement with plans to launder money, through Giuseppe Zappia, in building the multi-billiondollar Strait of Messina Bridge across the Strait of Messina connecting the Italian mainland with Sicily. ] The 3,690 metres (12,110 ft) long, suspension-type bridge, which was initially planned to open by 2011, was expected to cost about €5 billion ($7.3 billion CAD).

Several family members and associates of Vito Rizzuto died or disappeared while he was incarcerated:

His associate Federico del Peschio was killed behind La Cantina restaurant in Ahuntsic on August 21, 2009.

His eldest son, Nicolo Rizzuto Jr., was gunned down on December 28, 2009, in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough of Montreal

His brother-in-law and consigliere Paolo Renda disappeared on May 20, 2010, also in Montreal, and is believed to be dead.

Rizzuto was incarcerated at the ADX Florence, the federal supermax prison for the most dangerous male inmates in the United States.

His associate Agostino Cuntrera was executed in broad daylight on June 29, 2010 in the Saint-Leonard borough of Montreal. His father, notorious crime boss Nicolo Rizzuto, was killed by a sniper through his kitchen window on November 10, 2010, at the age of 86. Shortly after Vito Rizzuto’s release, several men were killed in what was suspected to be retaliation for the hits on his family:

Drug dealers Emilio Cordileone, Tony Gensale, and Mohamed Awada were eliminated in back-to-back killings in November 2012 for their alleged implication in the 2008 abduction of a Rizzuto ally.

Also in November 2012, Joe Di Maulo, an influential mobster and ally to the Cotroni family, was executed in the driveway of his home, north of Montreal — his funeral was lightly attended by mafia standards, a sign that he had fallen out of favour. Three days before Christmas 2012, a gunman entered the coffee shop of incarcerated Rizzuto rival Giuseppe De Vito, killing one man, Dominic Facchini, and critically wounding another. In January 2013 Raynald Desjardins’ brother-in-law, Gaétan Gosselin, was murdered in front of his home, as was Vincenzo Scuderi, an alleged associate of Giuseppe De Vito. De Vito would later be killed by cyanide poisoning in prison in July 2013. Salvatore Calautti and Moreno Gallo, each of whom had a falling out with Rizzuto, were murdered. Calautti was shot in the head and killed while sitting in his car in July 2013; he had been suspected in the unsolved murder of Rizzuto’s father. Gallo, a former influential member of Rizzuto’s organization, was shot dead outside a restaurant in Acapulco, Mexico in November 2013. Gallo had been deported two years earlier, at which time it was also believed he was targeted for execution.

On December 23, 2013, Rizzuto died of complications from pneumonia, which may have been induced by lung cancer, at Sacré-Cœur hospital in Montreal; he was 67. Although his official cause of death was from natural causes, there has been speculation he could have been poisoned, as an autopsy was never performed on his body. Rizzuto’s funeral was held at the Church of the Madonna della Difesa in Montreal’s Little Italy on December 30, attended by around 800 people.He was buried at Saint-François d’Assise cemetery in Saint-Leonard, Quebec.

Even after Rizzuto’s death, the Rizzuto crime family continued their revenge campaign.

Almost three years after Rizzuto’s death, Pierre de Champlain, a former RCMP intelligence analyst stated that “during Vito Rizzuto’s era, if everything was going well for organized crime in Montreal, it was because of Rizzuto”. Subsequently, no other leader proved capable of getting the various groups in the city to work together, allowing street gangs to become more powerful. “Nobody has been able to bring together all the Mafia clans in Montreal ... the Mafia is in complete disarray. There’s definitely no emerging leader — that’s why the situation is unstable and volatile”.

Almost three years after Rizzuto’s death, Pierre de Champlain, a former RCMP intelligence analyst stated that “during Vito Rizzuto’s era, if everything was going well for organized crime in Montreal, it was because of Rizzuto”.

Subsequently, no other leader proved capable of getting the various groups in the city to work together, allowing street gangs to become more powerful. “Nobody has been able to bring together all the Mafia clans in Montreal ... the Mafia is in complete disarray. There’s definitely no emerging leader — that’s why the situation is unstable and volatile”.

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FORMAT: HARDCOVER

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

ISBN: 1947488619

ISBN13: 9781947488618

RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 2020

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