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" Found religion? Maybe. But it doesn't erase the past, if he did. " --Canadian Mafia expert James Dubro on Pat Musitano's alleged religious transformation The boss of a Calabrian crime family in Hamilton, a Canadian port city about 41 miles west of Niagara Falls, was shot multiple times on Thursday morning and remains in critical condition. Peel Regional police on Thursday investigate the Musitano shooting. Pasquale (Pat) Musitano is still clinging to life at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto where he was brought Thursday morning. He was reportedly shot at least four times, including once in the head, at around 7 a.m. Thursday. A witness described the shooting as "very unsettling and terrifying. And quite brazen in broad daylight." The Hamilton Spectator broke the identity of the victim; law enforcement remains tight-lipped about the incident, neither naming or confirming the name of the victim Mafia vi olence in Hamilton and su...

While the man gunned down in Hamilton wasn't a mob boss (his job description was  entrepreneur ), sources tell organized crime investigators that the shooting was "Mafia retaliation" for the unsolved 2017 murder of gangland boss Angelo Musitano. Albert Iavarone  Albert Iavarone was a Hamilton entrepreneur and real estate agent, and someone hid in his bushes last night and shot him dead as he walked toward his Ancaster home. Iavarone had links to associates in organized crime. "The killer hid in bushes and lay in wait for Albert Iavarone to return home Thursday night," Det. Sgt. Peter Thom told The Hamilton Spectator today . The 50-year-old was shot around 10 p.m. as he walked from his car, which was parked outside 32 Sunflower Cres. in Ancaster's quiet Scenic Woods neighbourhood. Surveillance footage revealed that a male suspect arrived in a silver vehicle, parked and hid in bushes for an “extended period of time” until Iavarone returned home. ...

A “well-known Mafia boss” who lived in Hamilton was shot dead last night, according to Hamilton’s Homicide Unit, which is investigating. Hamilton Police investigating a homicide on Sunflower Crescent in Ancaster early Friday morning. The shooting happened around 10 p.m. Thursday on Sunflower Crescent, near Highway 403 and Mohawk Road. A source with the Hamilton police department told CityNews that “the victim appears to be a well-known mafia boss who lives in the neighbourhood.” The neighbourhood of Scenic Woods is an affluent area with many large, single family homes. Two cars remained in the driveway behind the police tape at the scene around 8 a.m. this morning. This is the fifth homicide in Hamilton this year. Police said the victim, a 50-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene. Montreal Cosa Nostra boss Vito Rizzuto who died in December 2013. Neighbors reported hearing several gunshots and then saw a vehicle speeding away from the scene. Polic...

Ken Murdock once played a pivotal role in mob politics in Hamilton, a tough town on Ontario's Great Lakes waterfront. Mob hit man Ken Murdock, who was paroled two years ago. He was sentenced to "life" for killing mob boss Johnny "Pops" Papalia and was a suspect in the killings of two close Papalia associates on the orders of his longtime employers, the Musitano crime family , one of three key crime families in the Hamilton region. The other two were the Luppinos and Papalias .

Who killed Angelo Musitano yesterday, shooting him numerous times as he sat in his pickup truck in the driveway of his home? The answer might have something to do with someone shot to death 20 years ago this very month, specifically, a mob boss named Johnny Pops. The Musitanos allied with Vito Rizzuto. Angelo paid the ultimate price. That could mean the shooter worked for the same group responsible for gunning down the remnants of the Sicilian Mafia clan formerly run by Vito Rizzuto.

The Musitano brothers who once employed Murdock and were Rizzuto allies. Canadian hit man Kenneth Murdock is out on parole, the National Post's Adrian Humphreys has reported. Murdock played a pivotal role in mob politics in the Hamilton area of Toronto, where he was sentenced to "life" for killing mob boss  Johnny "Pops" Papalia and two of his close associates on the orders of his long time employers,  the Musitano crime family , one of three key crime families in the Hamilton region. The other two were the Luppinos and Papalias . According to Murdock himself, shortly after the hit on Johnny Papalia in 1996, the Musitanos had considered taking out the three brothers who together ran the Luppino family, presumably in a move to dominate Hamilton, a key city in the Ontario province in terms of historical organized crime. At the time, the Musitanos were backed by Vito Rizzuto, who also would eventually make a move from Montreal to take over Southern Onta...