Posted on 11/25/2011 4:58:55 AM PST by AtlasStalled
Salvatore "Sal the Ironworker" Montagna, the former acting boss of the Bonanno crime family who was deported by the United States to his native Canada in 2009, was whacked yesterday in Montreal, QB Canada as reported by The Gazette.
Warning: Graphic Video
The Bonanno family from NYC has deep long-time ties with the Rizzuto family in Montreal, and reputed boss Vito Rizzuto currently is serving time at the supermax facility in Florence, CO on a 2007 racketeering conviction involving the 1981 New York City murders of three Bonanno capos during an internal power struggle.
When Vito gets out of the pokey in October 2012 he'll face a changed landscape with which he will be powerless to deal.
Over the last few years several Rizzuto clan members and associates -- including patriarch Nicolo Rizzuto and his grandson Nick Rizzuto Jr. -- have been slain.
One theory put forward to explain the ongoing blood bath is that the Calabrian Mafia is attempting to wrest control from the Sicilian Mafia over the Montreal underworld. The police also believe that Montagna was pushing to become the top dog among the Sicilians. To further complicate matters some sources believe that Montagna had allied himself with the Calabrian clans in Ontario and NYC.
It's unknown at this time whether Montagna was whacked by the Calabrians or his own paisanos.
Montagna was known in Montreal for shaking down contractors for five percent of their profits, and the alleged corruption of the construction industry by the Montreal Mafia and dirty politicians is the subject of both an ongoing criminal investigation and public inquiry. Last September a government-commissioned report concluded that organized crime was obtaining public contracts in a bid rigging scheme which provided kickbacks to government officials in the form of campaign contributions.
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Canadian gangsters, eh?
Provided kickbacks to government officials in the form of campaign contributions.
Sound like anyone we know in D.C.?.
This is the hit that was depicted in the movie "Donnie Brasco" - where Sonny Black took out Sonny Red.
Interesting (and not a very graphic video...police doing compressions on the chest of the victim on a snow-covered riverbank). Thanks for posting.
This is our territory, ya hoser!
Are there any honest people left
Sound like anyone we know in D.C.?.
It sounds like almost every office holder at every level of government.
They’re all part of the same hypocrisy, are they not? From the movies, but certainly not inaccurate.
I don’t do Mafia Wars on Facebook.
“...and there was nothing we could do about it.”
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
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