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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
Vito Rizzuto was arrested on January 20, 2004, in Montreal, for his involvement in the May 5, 1981, gangland killings of three rival Bonanno crime family captains (Alphonse Indelicato, Philip Giaccone and Dominick Trinchera) and was sentenced to a 10-year prison sentence on May 4, 2007, after being extradited to the United States. [37]
In the early 2000s, Vito Rizzuto is the boss of the Rizzuto crime family and is at the peak of his influence and power, while he keeps City Hall and the police in his pocket, and maintains peace with the bikers, the Irish, the Haitians and other Montreal gangs despite a botched hit on Vito which his right-hand man Declan Gardiner "takes care of."
Juan Ramon Paz Fernández (23 December 1956 – 9 April 2013) was a Spanish gangster active in Canada and Italy who served as the right-hand man of Vito Rizzuto, the boss of the Montreal-based Rizzuto crime family.
In the early 1990s, Mora along with Johnny Papalia and Carmen Barillaro borrowed $7.2 million from Vito Rizzuto and the trio refused to pay back the loan to Rizzuto. [172] On September 11, 1996, Mora was murdered as he pulled his gold-colored Cadillac into the driveway of a farm in Vaughan. He was shot four times in the head. [172]
Raynald Desjardins (born October 2, 1953) [2] is a prominent organized crime figure in Montreal, and a former associate of the Rizzuto crime family.In 2010, he was part of a violent effort to take control of the Rizzutos' operations. [3]
The Rizzuto family has allegedly worked closely with the Bonanno crime family out of all five New York Five Families. [1] The DeCavalcante crime family , which is based in North Jersey , across the Hudson River from the Five Families, and famously served as the inspiration for the hit TV show The Sopranos , are at times also referred to as the ...
Nicolo Rizzuto was born in Cattolica Eraclea, in the province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy, on February 18, 1924.His father, Vito Rizzuto Sr. had been convicted on 23 June 1921 by an Italian military court of theft after he was caught stealing from the Regio Esercito. [1]