Boss Rizzuto Inducted Non-Italians into Montreal Mob

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The National Post has revealed some stunning information: The boss of the Montreal Mob, Vito Rizzuto, inducted into his family men who were not of Italian descent.

Initially, both parents of a potential  member had to come from Italy; but when the ranks of viable candidates thinned too much, this edict was tweaked. Now, only one's father has to hail from the boot.

Vito, it would appear, has gone a little too far.

Old-time Cosa Nostra boss Albert Anastasia was slain in part for selling buttons; but he sold them to Italians. For this, bullets shattered his brains while he was relaxing in a barber chair, warm cloth covering his face.

Vito, it seems, was rewarded for his breaking of basic mob procedure by creating what would become a rebellious faction -- the one that would spark the ongoing mob war on his turf, which as was widely reported has now expanded into Italy.

The National Post noted that Rizzuto had broken "the fundamental, centuries-old rules of the Mafia by formally inducting non-Italians into his Mafia clan, including a French-Canadian and a Spaniard, according to conversations secretly recorded in Sicily.

"He may be regretting his multicultural approach."



One non-Italian inductee, Juan Ramon Fernandez, born in Spain and considered to be Vito's right-hand man, was brutally slain in Sicily this past week, "apparently because he was reluctant to choose sides in Montreal’s deadly Mafia war," the Post wrote.

Raynald Desjardins, however, the other non-Italian Mafioso, supposedly was the "architect of the rebellious faction that challenged the leadership of Mr. Rizzuto in Montreal, authorities allege." He currently sits in prison, having been charged with the murder of former Bonanno family acting boss Sal "The Ironworker" Montagna.

The Post got hold of the wiretaps and released them to the public on Friday, it reported, following a large police operation in Sicily that arrested 21 men.

"They shed fascinating and unexpected light on the perplexing and deadly struggle for control of Canada’s underworld — a struggle that has claimed 20 lives — after police in Sicily monitored conversations between dozens of mobsters, including Canadians visiting and living in the birthplace of the Mafia," the Post reported.

Mr. Rizzuto “makes the f–king rules” regardless of what Sicilian Mafia bosses thought, Fernandez asserted on the wiretaps. “Vito ‘made’ me and my compare, Raynald,” Fernandez also said on a wiretap.

“You’re not Italian,” said whoever Fernandez was talking to.

“No, no. Me and my compare,” Mr. Fernandez insisted, were “made” men despite their lineage.


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