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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]
The Rizzuto family is sometimes referred to as the Sixth Family. [398] In 1988, Nicolo Rizzuto was convicted of cocaine trafficking and his son Vito Rizzuto became boss of the family. [401] Vito Rizzuto was arrested in January 2004, and extradited to the United States on murder charges in August 2006.
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.
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]
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]
BB Paulekas shows family photos including his father, Vito, who was once known as "the first hippie" or "king of the hippies." Vito Paulekas and his group of dancers, known as the Freaks, helped ...
After Vito Rizzuto was arrested in 2004, a committee of caretaker leaders for Rizzuto was formed with Sollecito being one of them. [2] He was arrested on November 22, 2006, along with dozens of others including Nicolo Rizzuto, Paolo Renda, Francesco Arcadi, Lorenzo Giordano and Francesco Del Balso, as part of Project Colisée. [3]