THE RIZZUTO EMPIRE: How a Sicilian Conquered Canadian Organized Crime

Описание: "My son, my father, my revenge."

If Vito Rizzuto could have summed up his life in three words, that's how he would have done it.

On December 28, 2009, his son Nicolo Jr. was shot six times in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood. On November 10, 2010, his 86-year-old father Nicolo was killed by a sniper's bullet in his Cartierville kitchen. His brother-in-law, Paolo Renda, mysteriously disappeared.

Vito was 2,000 miles away, in the supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. He was serving time for a triple murder committed in 1981 in Brooklyn. He was powerless. He brooded. He planned his revenge.

When he was released in October 2012, after five years in prison, he had only one thing on his mind: reclaim his throne and avenge his family. Within six months, bodies piled up. The revenge was methodically executed.

But fate had other plans. On December 23, 2013, Vito Rizzuto died of lung cancer. He was 67 years old.

🔎 In this video:

The origins: from Cattolica Eraclea to Montreal's Little Italy

The clan wars of the 1970s and the birth of the "Sixth Family"

The 1981 Bonanno massacre: the original sin

The Rizzuto empire: drugs, money laundering, absolute power

The extradition and years in supermax

The revenge: the hit list

The death of the last godfather

The legacy: where is the Montreal Mafia today?

💬 Debate:

Will there ever be another godfather like Vito Rizzuto in Montreal?
Was Vito's revenge legitimate in the Mafia's code of honor?

📢 Sources:

"Business or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War" by Peter Edwards and Antonio Nicaso

"The Sixth Family" by Lee Lamothe and Adrian Humphreys

RCMP and FBI archives

CBC, CTV, Global News reports

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