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Another board member, Frank Campoli was the first cousin to Giovannia Rizzuto (the wife of Vito Rizzuto) and was a guest at the wedding in 1995 of Nick Rizzuto Jr. [30] Giovannia Rizzuto and her three adult children, namely Nick Rizzoto, Leonardo Rizzuto and Libertina Rizzuto, collectively owned shares worth $1.6 million in OMG. [31]
Vito Rizzuto was born in Cattolica Eraclea, in the province of Agrigento, Sicily on 21 February 1946. [2] In 1954, on Vito's eighth birthday, he immigrated with his family to Canada, docking at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia before moving on to Montreal, Quebec. [3] [4] Vito was the first child of Nicolo Rizzuto and his wife
Rizzuto had two grandsons by his son Vito and his wife Giovanna Cammalleri, Leonardo Rizzuto and Nicolo "Nick" Rizzuto Jr., and a granddaughter, Maria Rizzuto. On December 28, 2009, Nick Rizzuto Jr. was shot and killed near his car in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, a borough in Montreal.
Leandro Rizzuto Jr. was born on March 20, 1962, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Leandro Rizzuto and his wife Rita Rizzuto. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Rizzuto studied marketing at Arizona State University from 1980 to 1982, but left to work for the family businesses.
Nicolo Rizzuto Jr. was gunned down on December 28, 2009, followed by the disappearance of his brother-in-law Paolo Renda on May 10, 2010. Renda was the Rizutto crime family consigliere at the time of his murder. Finally, Nicolo Rizzuto Sr. was killed by a sniper on November 10, 2010. [58] [65]
During Project Colisée, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police videotaped Arcadi visiting the Consenza Social Club 616 times to see Nicolo Rizzuto between 2004 and 2006. [2] On March 9, 2005, Thierry Beubrun, a member of Woolley's Crack Down Posse, shot dead a Rizzuto family soldier, Mike Lapolla, and in turn was shot dead by other Rizzuto family soldiers. [21]
In March 2023, Del Balso was a suspect in the March 15 attempted murder of Leonardo Rizzuto. [26] Several days later Del Balso attempted to flee Canada on a flight to Italy at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport but was arrested and his passport was confiscated; he was released without being charged. [26]
His son, Stefano, and Vito Rizzuto's son, Leonardo, are believed to be the heads of the Mafia in Montreal, who were both arrested and charged with drug trafficking and gangsterism in November 2015. [1] [7] On February 19, 2018, they were released from prison, acquitted of charges of gangsterism and conspiracy to traffic cocaine. [8]