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Rizzuto was born in Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, Italy, in 1924, and immigrated to Montreal in 1954 with his wife, son and daughter. He married into the mob through his wife Libertina Manno's family, beginning as an associate in the Sicilian faction of the Calabrian Cotroni crime family , which had most of the control in Montreal.
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
Nicolo Rizzuto married Libertina Manno during the early 1940s, the daughter of a Sicilian Mafia leader, Antonio Manno. [7] Rizzuto emigrated from Sicily with his family to Montreal in 1954. [8] In the 1970s, Rizzuto was an underling in the Sicilian faction, led by Luigi Greco until his death in 1972, [9] [10] of the Calabrian Cotroni crime ...
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]
Paul Sorvino as Nicolo Rizzuto (season 1): patriarch and founder of the Rizzuto family; Enrico Colantoni as Bruno Bonsignori (season 1): Rizzuto family consigliere; Brett Donahue as Nico Jr. (season 1): Vito's oldest son; Maxim Roy as Michelle (season 1): Vito's confidante; Tony Nappo as Gio (season 1): soldier of the Rizzuto family
After Rizzuto was arrested in 2004, a committee of caretaker leaders for Vito Rizzuto was formed of Giordano, Nicolo Rizzuto, Paolo Renda, Rocco Sollecito, Francesco Arcadi and Francesco Del Balso. [ 10 ] [ 11 ]
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]