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Vito Rizzuto (1946-2013) was the leader of the Rizzuto crime family in Montreal, Quebec, and allegedly the Sicilian Mafia in Canada. He was involved in several murders, drug trafficking, racketeering and money laundering, and was extradited to the US in 2006.
Dec 23, 2013 · Vito Rizzuto, the Montreal-based Mafia boss who became an underworld figure of global stature and the most influential crime lord Canada has known, died a death that was most unexpected: of...
Dec 30, 2013 · Vito Rizzuto, the reputed Mafia boss of Canada, whose dapper outfits and ability to avoid prison led the authorities to call him the John Gotti of Montreal, died on Dec. 23 in Montreal....
- Nicolo Rizzuto and The Calabrian Cotroni Mob Family
- Vito Rizzuto and The ‘Three Capos’ Murder
- Vito Rizzuto’s Arrest and The Dissolution of His Criminal Empire
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In 1954, Nicolo Rizzuto and his family packed their things and left Sicily for Montreal. He already had a job lined up, too — with the Montreal mob, at the time led by Vincenzo “Vic” Cotroni. Nicolo Rizzuto wasn’t new to the criminal underworld, either. His wife, Libertina Manno, was the daughter of a Sicilian Mafioso named Antonio Manno, and, acco...
When Vito Rizzuto took over control of his father’s empire, he was put in charge of a multi-million-dollar organization at the forefront of Montreal’s criminal underworld. The Rizzuto crime family didn’t discriminate when it came to crime: They had their hands in everything from construction fraud, drug trafficking, and gambling to money laundering...
For 20 years after the “Three Capos” murder, Vito Rizzuto seemed untouchable. He was the head of Canada’s largest criminal organization, his illegal businesses netting him billions of dollars as he dined with politicians and other powerful officials. But in January 2001, Rizzuto’s once-impregnable empire was dealt its killing blow: a group of offic...
Learn about the life and crimes of Vito Rizzuto, the son of a Sicilian mobster who rose to power in Montreal's underworld. From his involvement in the infamous "Three Capos" murder to his feud with the Calabrian faction, Rizzuto was a notorious drug trafficker and a fugitive from justice.
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Vito Rizzuto was a Sicilian-Canadian mobster who led the Rizzuto crime family, a faction of the Bonanno family, in Montreal. He was imprisoned for murders in 2007 and released in 2012, after which he died of natural causes in 2013.
Oct 5, 2017 · If there ever was a truly Canadian mobster, it was Vito Rizzuto. By bringing together the gangs of Montreal, the now-deceased mob boss orchestrated perhaps the greatest criminal empire in...
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Feb 1, 2015 · While serving time in a Colorado jail for his role in the murder of three men, Montreal mobster Vito Rizzuto learned his son had been killed.
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