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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
Another board member, Frank Campoli was the first cousin to Giovannia Rizzuto (the wife of Vito Rizzuto) and was a guest at the wedding in 1995 of Nick Rizzuto Jr. [30] Giovannia Rizzuto and her three adult children, namely Nick Rizzoto, Leonardo Rizzuto and Libertina Rizzuto, collectively owned shares worth $1.6 million in OMG. [31]
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]
Vito Rizzuto (1946–2013) Antonio Rotolo; S. Antonio Salamone (1918–1998) Antonio Salvo (1929–1986) Ignazio Salvo (1932–1992) Benedetto Santapaola;
Vito Rizzuto: 04307-748: Deceased. Released and deported to Canada on October 5, 2012, after serving about five years of a ten-year sentence; died on December 23, 2013, of natural causes. Rizzuto was the boss of the Italian-Canadian Rizzuto crime family, based in Montreal.
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.
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 ...