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was grandiose. It was little things." Violi received a steady steam of visitors at the Reggio Bar, mostly from New York and
Hamilton. MĂ©nard stated, "There would always be some big cars from the States and there would always be somebody there. All the time. It was like a parade. It was like a doctor's office with patients. You know, he'd be receiving in the afternoons. A car from New York. A car from New Jersey. A car from Ontario. God, all kinds of big, huge cars. They'd be parked. The guys would come in. Sometimes he'd greet them at the door. And they'd be on their way after a bit." Violi played the role of a community leader within the Italian Canadian community in Montreal, serving as a banker, judge and community mediator. He was known for providing free ice cream to children at the Reggio Bar, and he would never permit anyone to swear in front of children. However, his apparent generosity was self-interested as any favour he provided such as a loan or resolving a business dispute came with the understanding that he was entitled to favours in return. MĂ©nard discovered, much to his shock, that after the owner of a pizzeria saw him talking with Violi in the street, he had refused to charge him for the pizza he just ordered, saying that any friend of Violi's was entitled to permanent free pizza from his pizzeria.
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leg. MĂ©nard stated that Violi's eyes had "intelligence, but ruthlessness. Total ruthlessness. Paolo would kill, but he'd do it in a much more intelligent way...You want to know the difference? They will kill you indiscriminately, for no reason, while Paolo would kill you if he had to for power and for position and for advantage. That's the difference...They'll kill because they don't like you having a toothpick in your mouth. That's the difference here. Goddamn animals. Nothing else...Paolo will use killing as a means to an end, a method. If you kill someone that you're trying to gather money fromâunless you want to use him as an exampleâwhat the hell's the use use of killing a source of revenue?...That's not businesslike. Real smart guys don't kill until it absolutely has to be done."
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brother did not want competition. Marchettini testified that he went to a meeting with
Francesco, who "...began slapping me in the face. He did it in a very calm way, without too much force. All the while he was giving me advice about how I shouldn't open there. Then he started hitting me on the shoulders with a four-foot-long stick used to mix ice cream. And he kicked me in the face. I was bleeding from the mouth and I had a broken tooth and both eyes were blackened." Marchettini ended up selling his poolroom to a Violi associate who promptly shut it down.
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with another soldier, who went into the apartment. He was sleeping and boom, boom, I shot him three times." Violi's only regret was that he failed to kill the man, but he took consolation from the fact that "They say he's still got two and they can't get them out. But he'll remain crippled...It's worse than being dead." Violi then went on to complain at length that his 9mm handgun was not large enough for his tastes and he wanted a .22-calibre handgun for the next time that he shot someone.
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serious offense under the Mafia code); Violi chose the former during his testimony as he maintained that he really did shoot the man. One of MĂ©nard's recordings had Violi say that 25 members of the
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Cotroni in 1973 where, amid much laughter, he cheerfully confessed to attempted murder as he told his boss, "I shot the asshole three times. The papers didn't say so, but I'm telling you it was me,
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Manno received a seven-year sentence after pleading guilty to conspiring to kill Violi. Rizzuto confidant
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Cotroni that he committed crimes done by others and the police knew that this particular attempted murder was the work of someone else. The wiretap put Violi into the dilemma of having to confess to attempted murder or having to confess that he lied to his boss (a
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in the Bar Jean-Talon after being invited to play cards by
Vincenzo Randisi. As Violi sat playing cards, two men wearing ski masks stormed in while one shouted "everybody to the floor!" while the other one raced up to Violi to shoot him dead from behind at very close range with a sawed-off 12-gauge
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MĂ©nard recalled that Violi was the neighbourhood leader in Saint-Leonard as he recalled, "There was some fear. He was like the don. He was like the godfather. I can remember some old people going over and kissing his hand...I guess it was a mark of respect. He was always bowed to. I'm not saying it
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MĂ©nard under his Wilson identity hardly spoke at all to Violi during his first two years as his tenant and was most surprised when Violi wanted to speak over a meal of pizza and wine. MĂ©nard described Violi as a "better class of criminals" than the French-Canadian bank robbers who shot most of his
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nothing to eat. I didn't want to sign them . Paolo had a cigar in his mouth. He told me: 'Sign!'. I cried like a child. I had worked on my business for fifteen years and they ate it all." The businessman stated that the protection money payments ruined his business and forced him into bankruptcy.
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Lino Simaglia, an Italian immigrant businessman, testified at CECO that Violi had visited him in 1971 and forced him to pay $ 1,000 per year in protection money. Simiglia testified that for Christmas 1971, "At Christmas, Violi called saying I had to give him a gift...$ 1,000 in cash. My business
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motorcycle gang killed Mario Ciambrone and Salvatore Sergi of the Cotroni family for selling them low quality heroin at a premium price. On 31 July 1973, Violi met with Frank Cotroni who called the Popeyes "crazy, crazy, crazy...They've killed something like ten guys already!" It was agreed that
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wrote, "The wiretap conversations had shown that Violi didn't measure up to the traditional Mafia standards of leadership. He was clearly a braggart and was indiscreet. Perhaps, worse of all, he showed himself to be a petty criminal who didn't balk at having his soldiers steal from Little Italy
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Much to Violi's disgust, Frank spent too much time planning out an attack on the bikers as he was very concerned about the possibility of innocent by-standers being killed and never actually carried out the assignment. In a conversation recorded by a police wiretap, Violi was heard saying, "He
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Although NicolĂČ Rizzuto was in Venezuela at the time of Violi's murder, his brother-in-law Domenico Manno was believed to play a major role in the murder on Rizzuto's orders. The three hitmen who killed Violi, Agostino Cuntrera, Giovanni DiMora, and Domenico Manno, all made guilty pleas to the
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One of Violi's "soldiers", Peter Bianco, who had turned Crown's evidence, testified against his former boss at the CECO hearings. Bianco testified that his area of expertise was robbing wedding presents, saying, "We mostly did Italian weddings. We cleaned out the house while the people were at
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In 1974, Violi and Cotroni were overheard on a police wiretap threatening to kill Hamilton mobster Johnny Papalia and demanding $ 150,000 after he used their names in a $ 300,000 extortion plot without notifying or cutting them in on the score. The three were convicted of extortion in 1975 and
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police officer who used the alias Robert Wilson, who rented an apartment above Violi's Reggio Bar for several years. MĂ©nard was supposed to go undercover for only three months, but instead served undercover for about five years. The evidence he acquired was later used in subsequent cases.
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brides as he attended their weddings, a man whose actions deprived St. Leonard children of gifts at Christmas." The journalist Jerry Langton wrote that the MĂ©nard tapes had destroyed Violi's underworld reputation and made him "...in many eyes, the equivalent of a rat by incompetence".
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emerged as the preeminent crime family in Montreal by the early 1980s. After Violi's death, his widow and two sons, Domenico and Giuseppe moved to Hamilton; the Violi brothers became affiliated with the Luppino crime family, later known as the Luppino-Violi crime family.
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for a family meal, at his kitchen table in his Montreal home when a single bullet from a sniper's rifle struck him dead. Cotroni died of cancer on 16 September 1984. By the mid-1980s, the Rizzuto family emerged as Montreal's pre-eminent crime family after the turf war.
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will split and everyone will be on their own. I'm telling you that, in Montreal, we will be alone by ourselves." Violi's brash, cocky and arrogant approach and lack of respect for his elders did not make him friends in the underworld.
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together with Nicolas Di Iorio, Frank Cotroni and Luigi Greco. Cotroni's role became more that of an adviser to the younger Calabrian. Greco led the Sicilian faction of the family until his death in 1972.
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in Montreal. In a sign of disfavour, only a few gangsters attended the funeral. Violi's father-in-law, Giacomo Luppino of Hamilton, together with Michele "Mike" Racco of Toronto and Frank Sylvestro of
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in particular. "He is going from one side to the other, here and there, and he says nothing to nobody, he is doing business and nobody knows anything," Violi said about Rizzuto. Violi asked for more "
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church." Bianco's testimony was supported by a wiretapped phone call where Violi called him and his partner, Tony Teoli, "a pair of no-goods" who had only stolen "nothing but cheap stuff."
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shotgun. The first shot blasted off much of Violi's head and killed him instantly; nevertheless, the killer fired a second shot to further destroy Violi's head in a show of disrespect.
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both serving as godfathers to the other children. Further expanding his reach was that the Commisso brothers married another of Luppino's daughters, thereby making an alliance with the
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showed him making disparaging and insulting remarks about his superiors in Montreal and New York were gravely damaging to his reputation. Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of
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Frank should handle the bikers while Violi would handle Angelo Faquino, the intermediary drug dealer. On 2 September 1973, Faquino was killed while walking down the street.
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charges of conspiracy to murder Violi as the Crown dropped the charges of first-degree murder against them as part of the plea bargain. Cuntrera, Manno and DiMora observed
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with his wife. Just under a year later, on 8 February 1977, Francesco Violi, the younger brother of Paolo, the family enforcer, was murdered by several shotgun blasts.
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party! I think he hated them more than the cops. He just hated them! He thought they were destroying Canada...He was very nationalistic. He spoke English a lot."
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should have gone into the club, clients or no clients, lined everybody up against the wall and rat-a-tat-tat." On 14 September 1973, a Cotroni family
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sentenced to six years in prison. Violi and Cotroni appealed and got their sentences reduced to six months, but Papalia's appeal was rejected.
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transferred the family's day-to-day activities to Violi, and a mob war soon broke out between the Calabrians and the Sicilian faction led by
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wasn't good. I couldn't afford to pay my debts or buy Christmas presents for my wife and children".
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In December 1970, his bar was bugged with wiretaps by
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1630:"Rise of Rizzuto family may be echoed in their fall"
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Six years' imprisonment; served six months on appeal
969:
339:Violi clan in Sinopoli. Violi later immigrated to
3026:List of Italian-American mobsters by organization
3609:
1793:"Cafe owner gets 13 years for drug trafficking"
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1000:Financial Investigation and Forensic Accounting
445:phone conversation with Luppino, Violi berated
2516:Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia
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1530:"The rise and fall of Montreal's Rizzuto mob"
1026:Cedilot, Andre; Noel, Andre (7 August 2012).
1753:Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada
1745:
1357:Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada
1349:
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929:The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime
916:Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada
903:Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada
832:Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada
808:Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada
3733:People murdered by Canadian organized crime
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680:Violi's funeral was five days later at the
319:Royal Canadian Mounted Police chart of the
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1288:"The man they call the Canadian Godfather"
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572:Commission d'enquĂȘte sur le crime organisĂ©
397:In Quebec, Violi opened the Reggio Bar in
29:
3638:Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
1606:. Montrealgazette.com. January 22, 2019.
1372:. theglobeandmail.com. 15 December 2010.
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1331:"The shot heard around the underworld"
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1532:. torontosun.com. 20 November 2010.
1290:. National Post. February 26, 2001.
1064:from the original on 4 December 2018
624:
413:. Violi was closely associated with
1765:Edwards, Peter (10 November 2017).
1680:from the original on 4 January 2021
1610:from the original on March 23, 2019
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95:CĂŽte-des-NeigesâNotre-Dame-de-GrĂące
13:
3648:Canadian people of Italian descent
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1859:from the original on 30 April 2019
1320:, National Post, November 12, 2010
1294:from the original on 11 April 2018
682:Church of the Madonna della Difesa
305:
14:
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3738:Prisoners and detainees of Canada
3021:List of Italian-American mobsters
1833:from the original on 2 March 2018
1803:from the original on 8 March 2018
1773:from the original on 8 March 2018
1318:A Mafia hit loaded with symbolism
975:Lamothe, Lee. Humphreys, Adrian.
3723:People acquitted of manslaughter
3703:Italian people imprisoned abroad
3688:Italian-Canadian organized crime
3653:Canadian prisoners and detainees
3594:
3593:
1376:from the original on 1 June 2015
241:[ËpaËoloËvjÉËli;viËÉËli]
3633:20th-century Canadian criminals
3403:Italian-American National Union
1889:from the original on 2021-02-09
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1337:from the original on 9 May 2017
1333:. Ottawa Citizen. 7 June 1998.
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3713:Naturalized citizens of Canada
3708:Italian people murdered abroad
3543:Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
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686:Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
549:of his Sicilian "underlings",
91:Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
1:
790:
756:. Toronto: Key Porter Books.
2587:List of Mafia crime families
700:
461:
7:
3718:Organized crime in Montreal
3693:Italian emigrants to Canada
3678:Murdered Canadian gangsters
3668:Deaths by firearm in Quebec
3272:Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan
2854:(Northeastern Pennsylvania)
775:. Toronto: HarperColllins.
10:
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2382:The Pizza Connection Trial
1032:. Random House of Canada.
732:Luppino-Violi crime family
536:Natale "Joe Diamond" Evola
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3423:National Crime Syndicate
3133:Atlantic City Conference
2419:Relation to other groups
998:Manning, George A, PH.D
745:
16:Italian-Canadian mobster
3663:Criminals from Montreal
3643:Canadian male criminals
3388:East Harlem Purple Gang
3257:Colacurcio Organization
2502:Operation Donnie Brasco
771:Langton, Jerry (2015).
752:Edwards, Peter (1990).
540:Philip "Rusty" Rastelli
3628:1978 murders in Canada
3337:Velentzas Organization
3307:Philadelphia Greek Mob
3220:Mafia Commission Trial
3214:Pizza Connection Trial
2804:10th & Oregon Crew
2719:Greenwich Village Crew
2576:Italian-American Mafia
2524:The Way of the Wiseguy
2388:Mafia Commission Trial
380:Vincenzo "Vic" Cotroni
328:
3292:Musitano crime family
3064:Black Hand in Chicago
2794:Angiulo's Boston crew
2786:(Northern New Jersey)
650:The Godfather Part II
518:On 10 July 1973, the
419:William "Obie" Obront
318:
176:Rocco Violi (brother)
3658:Cotroni crime family
3507:Operation Underworld
3497:Operation Old Bridge
3428:New Springville Boys
3312:Rizzuto crime family
3302:Papalia crime family
3287:Luppino crime family
3277:Inzerillo Mafia clan
3267:Cotroni crime family
3151:Palermo Mafia summit
2643:New Springville Boys
2478:San Francisco family
2310:New Springville Boys
1949:Sebastiano DiGaetano
1935:Bonanno crime family
1829:. 15 November 2017.
1676:. 13 December 2012.
684:, and was buried at
360:Canadian citizenship
321:Bonanno crime family
299:Rizzuto crime family
279:Luppino crime family
256:Cotroni crime family
198:Cotroni crime family
194:Bonanno crime family
3673:Mafia extortionists
3569:Buster from Chicago
3533:Hired Truck Program
3512:Operation Wasteland
3438:South Brooklyn Boys
3413:Marat Balagula gang
3197:Castellammarese War
2729:Springfield faction
2448:DeCavalcante family
2405:Castellammarese War
2148:Dominick Napolitano
2128:Nicholas Marangello
2118:Alphonse Indelicato
2025:Vincent Badalamenti
1959:Salvatore Maranzano
1799:. 30 January 2018.
1060:. 3 December 2018.
657:close range with a
634:fled to Venezuela.
534:On 20 August 1973,
509:John Paul Getty III
79:Cause of death
3548:Rochester bombings
3433:Rudaj Organization
3408:Maceo Organization
3363:Bumpy Johnson gang
3358:Bugs and Meyer Mob
3317:Sacra Corona Unita
3168:Kefauver Committee
2814:Midwestern/Western
2754:New Jersey faction
2724:New Jersey faction
2638:Motion Lounge crew
2592:Mafia bibliography
2488:Trafficante family
2343:Kefauver Committee
2298:Factions and crews
2255:Richard Cantarella
2188:Dominick Trinchera
2143:Salvatore Montagna
2088:Giovanni Bonventre
2040:Anthony Indelicato
1716:, p. 124-125.
1645:, p. 121-122.
1177:, p. 100-101.
1085:, p. 102-103.
1008:2021-01-04 at the
986:2023-04-07 at the
927:Auger and Edwards
405:, the boss of the
331:Violi was born in
329:
265:Violi was born in
3698:Italian gangsters
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3528:French Connection
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3383:Dutch Schultz Mob
3229:
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3191:MafiaâCamorra War
3145:Apalachin meeting
3139:Havana Conference
3114:
3113:
3044:Initiation ritual
2946:
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2709:116th Street Crew
2542:
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2510:Joseph D. Pistone
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2366:The Motion Lounge
2293:
2292:
2168:Gerlando Sciascia
2153:Benjamin Ruggiero
2098:Patrick DeFilippo
2078:Salvatore Bonanno
2035:Perry Criscitelli
1969:Gaspar DiGregorio
1855:. 30 April 2019.
957:, 1 décembre 1973
782:978-1-4434-3255-9
625:Mob war and death
494:Quebec separatism
403:Stefano Magaddino
230:
229:
54:, Calabria, Italy
3745:
3683:Murdered Mafiosi
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3596:
3557:Related articles
3502:Operation Solare
3475:
3474:
3458:Winter Hill Gang
3393:Five Points Gang
3368:New York Camorra
3262:Commisso 'ndrina
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3174:Valachi hearings
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3080:(boss of bosses)
2958:Chain of command
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2887:(Italian Harlem)
2749:Brooklyn faction
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2473:Rochester family
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2280:Salvatore Vitale
2214:Costabile Farace
2209:Vincenzo Cotroni
2183:Antonio Tomasulo
2163:Nicholas Santora
2113:Anthony Graziano
2103:Alfred Embarrato
2083:Cesare Bonventre
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2015:Baldassare Amato
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617:The Toronto Star
392:Commisso 'ndrina
341:Southern Ontario
291:Vincenzo Cotroni
275:Southern Ontario
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219:Criminal penalty
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102:Other names
73:, Quebec, Canada
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2463:Lucchese family
2458:Genovese family
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2178:John Tartamella
2158:Michael Sabella
2108:Philip Giaccone
2054:
2050:John Zancocchio
2020:Louis Attanasio
2008:Current members
2003:
1999:Michael Mancuso
1989:Philip Rastelli
1984:Carmine Galante
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513:Jean Paul Getty
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421:to supervise a
370:, but left for
351:court, but was
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306:Criminal career
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181:(father-in-law)
179:Giacomo Luppino
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547:modus operandi
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451:Joseph Bonanno
411:Bonanno family
407:Buffalo family
384:Cotroni family
382:, boss of the
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364:Luppino family
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3471:Other topics
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3418:Murder, Inc.
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3282:Jewish Mafia
3101:Sixth Family
3096:One-way ride
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2285:Raymond Wean
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2229:Vito Rizzuto
2059:Past members
1979:Natale Evola
1974:Paul Sciacca
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3623:1978 deaths
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3579:Shotgun Man
3378:The Council
3297:'Ndrangheta
3222:(1985â1986)
3216:(1985â1987)
3199:(1929â1931)
3193:(1914â1917)
3170:(1950â1951)
2981:Consigliere
2937:Trafficante
2897:New Orleans
2836:Los Angeles
2831:Kansas City
2527:(2004 book)
2519:(1988 book)
2407:(1929â1931)
2384:(1985â1986)
2345:(1950â1951)
2315:Purple Gang
2260:Frank Coppa
2234:Paolo Violi
1837:16 November
1827:thestar.com
1797:thestar.com
1777:16 November
1751:Schneider,
1684:11 November
1540:10 December
1355:Schneider,
1058:thestar.com
966:Idem, p. 63
914:Schneider,
901:Schneider,
830:Schneider,
806:Schneider,
640:consigliere
455:abboccatoes
427:Ottawa-Hull
337:'Ndrangheta
233:Paolo Violi
110:Citizenship
23:Paolo Violi
3612:Categories
3480:operations
3478:Government
3059:Black Hand
2988:Caporegime
2907:Pittsburgh
2772:East Coast
2270:Frank Lino
2243:Informants
2197:Associates
1893:2018-12-04
1807:30 January
1737:13 January
1380:27 January
1341:8 December
1068:5 December
1003:pg.214â215
791:References
763:155013213X
560:capodecina
482:undercover
469:capodecina
443:wiretapped
423:bookmaking
388:Paul Volpe
251:capodecina
190:Allegiance
120:Occupation
97:, Montreal
44:1931-02-06
3008:Members (
3000:Associate
2975:Underboss
2951:Structure
2932:St. Louis
2912:Rochester
2902:Milwaukee
2875:(Chicago)
2858:Cleveland
2790:Patriarca
1755:, pp. 280
1359:, pp. 326
954:La Presse
941:L'atentat
918:, pp. 264
905:, pp. 262
834:, pp. 259
810:, pp. 258
736:underboss
701:Aftermath
462:Underboss
353:acquitted
323:'s crew (
287:Calabrese
212:Extortion
171:Relatives
3599:Category
3161:Hearings
3126:Meetings
3071:Vendetta
3049:Made man
3011:made men
2927:San Jose
2917:Rockford
2891:D'Aquila
2879:Lanzetta
2863:Colorado
2852:Bufalino
2740:Lucchese
2700:Genovese
2602:Families
2336:Hearings
2066:Made men
1887:Archived
1863:30 April
1857:Archived
1831:Archived
1801:Archived
1771:Archived
1731:Archived
1678:Archived
1608:Archived
1534:Archived
1374:Archived
1335:Archived
1292:Archived
1062:Archived
1006:Archived
984:Archived
981:pg.27â29
576:contempt
555:soldiers
529:piciotto
372:Montreal
368:Hamilton
333:Sinopoli
283:Hamilton
271:Calabria
267:Sinopoli
260:Montreal
237:Italian:
153:Children
115:Canadian
71:Montreal
52:Sinopoli
3453:Westies
3346:Defunct
3252:Camorra
2995:Soldato
2939:(Tampa)
2885:Morello
2826:Detroit
2821:Chicago
2779:Buffalo
2675:Gambino
2666:Colombo
2659:Colombo
2624:Bonanno
943:, p. 65
520:Popeyes
439:Compare
431:Expo 67
349:Welland
345:Toronto
254:in the
246:mobster
147:
139:
124:Mobster
113:Italian
82:Gunshot
3521:Crimes
3332:Stidda
3245:Active
3207:Trials
3176:(1963)
3153:(1957)
3147:(1957)
3141:(1946)
3135:(1929)
3119:Events
3090:OmertĂ
3054:Bagman
2868:Dallas
2534:(film)
2426:Allies
2390:(1986)
2375:Trials
2351:(1963)
1942:Bosses
1298:19 May
1036:
931:p.195.
779:
760:
709:omertĂ
690:Guelph
675:lupara
670:lupara
660:lupara
325:decina
214:(1975)
163:Parent
130:Spouse
3036:Terms
2873:Genna
746:Books
480:, an
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3184:Wars
3106:Zips
2970:Boss
2398:Wars
1865:2019
1839:2017
1809:2018
1779:2017
1739:2018
1686:2019
1616:2019
1542:2016
1382:2018
1343:2016
1300:2017
1070:2018
1034:ISBN
777:ISBN
758:ISBN
248:and
105:Paul
60:Died
38:Born
647:of
366:in
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