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The Rizzuto family along with their allies in the Cuntrera-Caruana clan were major players in the economy of Venezuela via their holding company of Aceroes Prensados, which owned much real estate, ranches, trucking companies, factories, hotels, shipping, service providers and building contractors whose assets in Venezuela in the 1980s were ...
Vito Rizzuto (Italian: [ˈviːto ritˈtsuːto]; 21 February 1946 – 23 December 2013), also known as "Montreal's Teflon Don", [1] was an Italian-Canadian crime boss alleged to be the leader of the Sicilian Mafia in Canada. He headed the notorious Rizzuto crime family based in Montreal, Quebec.
The Rizzuto family had prior ties to Lebanon. In the 1970s, they began trading arms for hashish with the Phalange, a right-wing Lebanese militia fanatically committed to upholding Maronite Christian supremacy in Lebanon. [4] The Rizzuto family was one of the group's main suppliers during the Lebanese civil war. [8]
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]
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.
Considered to be one of the most intimidating leaders of the Rizzuto family, Del Balso was the man most assigned to "talk" to debtors. [3] After Rizzuto was arrested in 2004, a committee of caretaker leaders for Vito Rizzuto was formed of Del Balso, Nicolo Rizzuto, Paolo Renda, Rocco Sollecito, Francesco Arcadi and Lorenzo Giordano. [4] [5]
Nicolo Rizzuto (Italian: [nikoˈlɔ rritˈtsuːto]; February 18, 1924 – November 10, 2010) was an Italian-Canadian crime boss and founder of the Rizzuto crime family, the Sicilian Mafia organization based in Montreal, Quebec.
Caputo served as the Toronto agent of Montreal's Rizzuto family and was described by the journalists Peter Edwards and Luis Nájera as "among the crėme de la crėme of the greater Toronto area Mafia world". [1] When Vito Rizzuto visited Toronto in the early 2000s, he was always the guest of honor at Caputo's restaurant. [3]