Big Mafia Takedown Presents a First: Undercover Agent Videotaped Being Inducted Into Bonanno Family
Giuseppe (Joe) Violi, right, Domenico (Dom) Violi, sons of Paolo Violi. Early last Thursday morning, following coordinated raids in New York City and within and beyond the GTA, 13 alleged members of organized crime were arrested as part of "a sweeping investigation into the fentanyl trade," the RCMP said. Four mobsters tied to the Gambino and Bonanno families were arrested. Seventeen (identified below) were named in the indictment altogether; five escaped the predawn raids in Canada and are lamming it in the Great White North. They face Canada-wide warrants and one of the five "in the wind" is a descendant of a notorious Ndrangheta family based in Hamilton . His father and grandfather were both bosses. The arrested in Canada include members of the Todaro crime family, established by the now-deceased Joseph (Lead Pipe Joe) Todaro, Sr., who took over after the death of Stefano (The Undertaker) Magaddino. It would seem probable that the probe...