Rizzuto was, in fact, closely involved with the hits on the Papalia family, so close that one of his right hand men was seen by law enforcement meeting with Musitano family leaders after each of three key hits went down in the late 1990s. It was then that the third family in Hamilton, the Musitanos, worked with Rizzuto family boss Vito when he first tried to consolidate power there in the late 1990s.
Consider that violence for control of Southern Ontario didn't commence until Giacomo's death, at age 88, in 1987, when Johnny "Pops" Papalia assumed control. The most well known of them was Vincenzo, who died a natural death and never saw the inside of a jail cell. Luppino had many children, but none ever rose far in the criminal underworld. Giacomo was more of a negotiator, and a not very violent boss. In Southern Ontario, perhaps even to a greater extent than in Montreal, there was a precarious balance of power due to all the crime families and other organized crime rings riddling the area, especially the key port town of Hamilton.
This balance of power by Bonanno established two decades of peace and prosperity.Īs for Magaddino's Ontario group, he named Giacomo Luppino as the Buffalo crew's long time representative, as noted in Andre Cedilot and Andre Noel's "Mafia Inc.: The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada's Sicilian Clan. In the 1950s, after Galante went to Montreal to "organize" things, Bonanno appointed a two-man panel to oversee his interests he favored Ndrangheta boss Vic Cotroni and named the Sicilian Cosa Nostra boss Luigi Greco as Cotroni's lieutenant.īonanno "gave Cotroni the edge," as Lee Lamothe and Adrian Humphrey's reported in "The Sixth Family." Galante had been using his connections in Canada to control the importation of drugs to America for distribution on the streets of New York and other major cities in the country. Following Repeal, narcotics replaced booze.Ĭarmine Galante, the mental dullard with the low IQ, was among the first to recognize the vital benefit Canada - specifically, Montreal - provided the narcotics trade he was consumed with a passion to capitalize on his discovery until his brutal gangland death on Knickerbocker Ave. There were great benefits to having affiliated mobsters in Canada during Prohibition, when crime families made fortunes. Paolo Violi, slain Ndrangheta chief in Montreal. Chalk it up to American law enforcement the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) need a Canadian version of the RICO act, it would seem.) (Canada's crime families were historically subservient to their American brethren, though today this has changed relationships likely still exist if they are mutually beneficial in fact we'd wager the Mafia in Canada, including both the Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra, is larger and more powerful than the American Mafia. Southern Ontario, including Toronto and the waterfront steel-making town of Hamilton, were placed under the control of Bonanno's cousin, Stefano Magaddino. Quebec, including the key city of Montreal, fell under the purview of Joseph Bonanno.
The American Mafia's Commission in 1931 decreed how Canada would be carved up.
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