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What is known as the Papalia family began as the group headed by Rocco Perri and his common-law wife Bessie Starkman in the 1920s. [8] Antonio Papalia was a bootlegger with early Picciotteria values, [9] who immigrated to Canada from Delianuova, Calabria, Italy, in 1912, through New York City before moving on to Montreal, Quebec then New Brunswick in the coal mines, before finally settling on ...
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The Canadian journalists André Cédilot and André Noël wrote that this was a "major mistake" as Rizzuto decided to wipe out the Papalia family's leaders. [ 10 ] In 1995, the police tapped Mora's phone, and heard him talk about a wedding reception he was planning to attend at the Sutton Place Hotel in Toronto. [ 3 ]
Howard Chard (1924 – 16 April 1983), better known as "Baldy" Chard, was a Canadian professional boxer and gangster who served as the principle enforcer of the Papalia family in Toronto. Boxer [ edit ]
Barillaro was born in Italy and immigrated to Canada with parents at the age of nine. [2] He grew up in Niagara Falls, and joined the Papalia family. [2] In 1931, when the Commission was established, dividing up North America into territories controlled by various Mafia families, much of southern Ontario was assigned to the Magaddino family of Buffalo, New York, to whom the Papalia family of ...
Musitano was unhappy with the way that his family was subordinate to the Papalia family, which in turn was the Canadian branch of the Magaddino family. [158] Both Papalia and his right-hand man Barillaro were "made men" in the Magaddino family, and Musitano needed the "protection" of a more powerful family to avoid retaliation from the Buffalo ...
Alberto (Italian:; 1922–November 1961) and Vito Agueci (Italian: [ˈviːto aˈɡwɛːtʃi]), also known as the Agueci brothers, were Sicilian mafiosi who were involved in the French Connection heroin smuggling ring from Europe into the United States and Canada during the late 1950s and early 1960s, closely connected to Hamilton, Ontario mobster Johnny Papalia and the Buffalo crime family.
Papalia (Italian pronunciation: [papaˈliːa]) is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adam Papalia, Australian sportscaster; Anna Papalia (born 1978), American author and educator; Carmen Papalia (born 1981), Canadian artist; Melanie Papalia (born 1984), Canadian actress; Paul Papalia (born 1962), Australian politician