Montreal Mob War Reaching Into the US?
Vito Rizzuto, right, seems to be tying up some lose ends. First, consider the mysterious death of a man in Florida who is believed to have been part of a small group of Montreal Mafiosi -- all of whom were "cursed," it would seem -- that early last year tried to negotiate who would fill a leadership void caused by the murders of high-level mobsters related to Vito Rizzuto, who was still finishing his sentence in a U.S. prison. Then just this weekend, there occurred the slaying of a low-level associate who once kidnapped a soldier in Rizzuto's family. In October, Domenico Arcuri Sr., a man with past ties to the Rizzuto organization, died in an accident on a construction site in south Florida, about which the medical examiner noted “the context is worrisome,” the MontrealGazette.com reported.