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By Andrew Machin “It is very difficult to know the names of the perpetrators [of a murder]. It is very easy to know the hand… from whom [the order] comes… the instigator. But the names of the perpetrators are very difficult to know in the underworld circles”. Raffaele Moscato, government witness, former high-ranking member (rank of Vangelo, transl. Gospel) and killer of the Locale of Piscopio, 2016. It was April 24, 2014, on a Thursday, and it was broad daylight (2 pm). Carmine Verduci ( above ) was alone in a parking lot just outside a café, the Regina Sports Café, in an industrial and retail plaza of Woodbridge (community in the City of Vaughan, north of Toronto). Evidently, he was tailed since, at that very moment, he was approached by a single gunman who shot him seven times, killing him. Then the shooter walked away. A short distance away, he reached a car where an accomplice was waiting for him behind the wheel. Then the car disappeared leaving no traces. The police, alerted by...

Vito Rizzuto drove around the streets of Montreal  in an armored car  and brazenly sent his assassins across the world to kill those who defied him. The Godfather of Montreal, Vito Rizzuto, died one year ago of complications from lung cancer. In this group count traitors and Calabrian mobsters from Toronto. Vito's bloody street war to annihilate any and all rivals and defectors didn't end with his death in December 2013. So said a law enforcement source quoted in the Toronto Sun , which further noted that Rizzuto's death last December at age 67 failed to "stem the vendetta." The Rizzuto crime family still has some “Calabrian Mob opportunists and Sicilian traitors” that it needs to deal with, the source said. Although Rizzuto was challenged, he retained his power. “The ground was never lost,” the source said. On Dec. 1, after months of relative peace within Montreal’s Mafia circles, one of its Calabrian members was fatally shot in a restaur...

Vito Rizzuto: are the powers controlling his family continuing to take the historical step of finally consolidating power in Southern Ontario? Either a  local newspaper in York , a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada, doesn't see the big picture regarding the mob war in Canada or many in the media and law enforcement have been getting it wrong... This blog holds the former belief. The article, reporting on a string of murders in the region, speculates on whether two recent killings are part of underworld unrest in the Hamilton/Toronto area that has so far claimed the lives of Carmine Verduci , Sam Calautti and James Tusek . The article then makes a distinction between the killings there and the ongoing Montreal war between the Ndrangheta and the Sicilian Cosa Nostra; in other words, it describes them as separate events. We have long believed, along with many media outlets and law enforcement sources, that there is one larger war that has escalated beyon...

Scene of the murder: Canadian police investigate Verduci  slaying while experts ponder its larger significance.  YorkRegion.com : Quebec is the place where the mob makes much of its drug money. Ontario is the place where the mob hides that money. This is mob expert Antonio Nicaso's simple diagnosis about why Ontario has historically been less violent, territorial and generally more peaceful than it's neighbour when it comes to gangland wars . The major difference in Quebec is the Port of Montreal, which gives anyone controlling it a way to bring cocaine into North America. "In Ontario, it's not about territory for the mafia; it's about investment," he said. "For that reason, they have to keep this place as peaceful as possible. You don't want to raise the alarm of people in Ontario. You don't want to associate Ontario with fear or violence. This is traditionally the difference between Ontario and Quebec."

Verduci alerted Italy to the Ndrangheta's presence in Canada. According to Adrian Humphrey's  National Post  story, Carmine Verduci, 56, the hit man shot several times outside Regina Sports Café near Toronto, has the distinction of being the man who "accidentally alerted" Italian police to the existence of a “Canadian cell” of the Ndrangheta. An investigation showed he was the ’Ndrangheta’s transatlantic messenger: He “had the task of travelling between Italy and Canada, acting as a carrier of news between the Italian group and the Canadians,” prosecutors said.  Following him, wiretapping his cellphone and tracing emails, authorities linked at least 40 people who were either Canadian citizens or current or former residents of Canada.