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Through his work, Savoie came to know a prominent Montreal lawyer, Sidney Leithman, who usually defended gangsters. [6] Although it was a major breach of ethics on the part of both men, Leithman and Savoie started to trade information, with Leithman informing on his own clients, while Savoie told Leithman much about what the RCMP knew about Montreal gangsters. [6]
At the time of her arrest in February 2015, the police found she had two bags of cash totalling $60,000 in her possession. [201] The willingness of drug dealers to pay Mongeau a "cut" of their profits shows that Boucher still had influence in the Montreal underworld despite being in prison since 2002. [201]
Another arrested during the 2001 raids was the Montreal restaurateur Salvatore Brunnettii. The police found evidence that Brunnettii had between December 2000 and March 2001 laundered $70,000 in drug money for the Angels, while at Brunnettii's home the police found 3,000 US dollars and 10,000 Canadian dollars in his safe, along with an illegal ...
The raids took place in Montreal, Laval and Longueuil in Quebec, and Ottawa and Kingston in Ontario. Items seized included 11 kg of hashish , 41 kg of cocaine , 2,300 crack rocks, 225 kg of marijuana , mix match of pills including speed, viagra, and ecstasy, computers and other electronic devices, Kevlar vests, $60,000 cash and 25 weapons and ...
Cazzetta join the Montreal chapter of the Hells Angels in 2005. [25] He would rise to lead the Hells Angels in Quebec. [26] On 3 June 2009, 600 police officers arrested 46 persons in the Montreal area and on the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve. Included in the crackdown were Cazzetta and his "right-hand man", Daniel "Putin" Leclerc.
As part of an investigation into James Slattery's private prison empire, The Huffington Post analyzed thousands of pages of court transcripts, police reports, state audits and inspection records obtained through state public records laws.
Harry Davis (born 1898 in Romania, [1] died on July 25, 1946, in Montreal [2]) was a Montreal gangster and the city's last "edge man" (a strictly Montreal term used to signify the go-between for gamblers, politicians and police, the ‘edge’ was the undisputed boss of all vice in the city) [3] back when the ‘Jewish Mafia’ ran the city.
In June 1999, a 16-year-old inmate sexually assaulted a female staff member who was left alone in an unlocked building at the Charles H. Hickey, Jr. School outside of Baltimore, according to state court documents. Problems at Hickey became so dire that the Justice Department initiated an investigation.