The former judge determined Saputo was so closely linked to Bonanno that allowing him to do business in New York was not in the public interest. In 1980, a retired New York judge reviewed the police evidence as part of an administrative hearing. The evidence, gathered by federal and state law enforcement officials in the 1970s, details personal and financial dealings between Saputo and Joseph Bonanno, considered one of the founding members of the American Mafia. "We respected the law, kept our distance from criminal organizations, and avoided crossing the wrong people," Saputo writes in Entrepreneur: Living our dreams.īut between 19, Saputo maintained a clandestine relationship with one of the most powerful gangsters in the U.S., according to police evidence uncovered by Enquête, Radio-Canada's investigative program. He devotes an entire chapter to disputing the claims. The 82-year-old businessman has repeatedly denied those allegations, most recently in a memoir published last year. He told Postmedia: “Was it connected to the Rizzuto struggle or the Montreal war or something else? We don’t know that.Lino Saputo turned his family's humble cheesemaking business into a multibillion-dollar global dairy empire and became one of the 10 richest people in Canada in the process.īut while amassing his $6.5-billion fortune, Saputo has also been dogged by allegations of having ties to powerful Mafia figures in both Canada and the United States. Reports suggested that Domenico Violi became the first Canadian to become underboss of The Arm - the Buffalo crime family that was previously the domain of Stefano “The Undertaker” Maggadino.Įven legendary Mob watcher and Queen’s University lecturer Antonio Nicaso was somewhat mystified by the deadly events in La Belle Province. In 2002, a Halton Regional Police intelligence report suggested the brothers were fixed up with the Luppinos. When the Violis fled back to the Hammer, they may have been biding their time. How the Sun covered the hit on mobster Pat Musitano in July 2020. Powerplays, shifting allegiances, and if you ask corpulent criminal Pat Musitano, revenge served ice cold. In the intervening 45 years, a lot has happened in Canadian gangland. “We’re looking for other suspects, for sure,” said Jean-Sebastien Caron, Montreal Police major crime unit chief.Ĭlarke is “related to a multitude of events of violence,” Caron added but backed away from previous police statements suggesting the slaying was a gangland settling of accounts. Now, cops say that on Tuesday, OPP detectives arrested 28-year-old Joel Richard Clarke, of Brampton, in Milton and charged him with first-degree murder in the death of Iacono. He had been the primo suspect in the attempted rubout in March of Mob scion Leonardo Rizzuto of those Rizzutos. On Monday, suspected hitter Francesco Del Balso was shot to death outside the Monster Gym in suburban Dorval. Dave Sidaway/Postmedia Photo by Dave Sidaway / Montreal Gazette Now, it appears to be Montreal’s return to the spotlight.Ī Montreal police officer stands next to the body of mobster Francesco Del Balso, who was shot and killed outside Monster Gym in Dorval on Monday June 5, 2023. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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