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Canada Ping!
Posted on 05/10/2013 2:47:33 PM PDT by MarkBsnr
Two senior members of the Canadian mafia have been murdered in Sicily and their bodies incinerated, victims of what police suspect is a vicious turf war in Canada which has spilled over into the Cosa Nostra's Italian heartland. After an anonymous tip-off, the bodies of Juan Ramon Paz Fernandez and Fernando Pimentel were discovered near a rubbish dump in the countryside outside Palermo on Thursday. Police described the double killing as an "old-fashioned" gangland hit. Spanish-born Fernandez, 57, a notoriously tough enforcer for Montreal's Rizzuto clan, was expelled from Canada last year for the third time after serving a 10-year sentence for conspiracy to murder a fellow mobster. He resurfaced in Palermo, where he was suspected of teaming up with the Cosa Nostra to build drug-trafficking links between Sicily and Canada. Pimentel arrived in Palermo a few weeks ago to join Fernandez, who was allegedly working as a martial arts instructor as cover for his mob activities. Nicknamed Joey Bravo in Canada, Fernandez was a feared right-hand man of Sicily-born Vito Rizzuto, who allied with New York's Bonanno family to build an unrivalled mafia empire in Canada in the 1980s, handling drugs, loan sharking, gambling and contract killing. In the midst of a turf war allegedly pitting the clan with a breakaway faction, Rizzuto was jailed while rivals murdered his father and son, the latter buried in a gold coffin which was paraded through Montreal's Little Italy. Fernandez stayed loyal to Rizzuto while he served his own time in jail in Canada, and was suspected by police of continuing to run operations through criminal associates. He was also suspected of being behind the murder of drug dealer Constantin "Big Gus" Alevizos in 2008.
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When they pull a body out of lake Ontario....arms tied up by a hockey stick and feet weighed down by a pair of curling stones.
And a bottle of Labatt's in their pocket.
That would be my understanding of it.
And you would be correct.
“I always wondered if the US government gave the Italian/Sicilian Mafia the rights to the US drug trade and the US government would turn a blind eye”
Wait, you’re saying they didn’t?
Nope, otherwise there wouldn’t be Mexican, Russian and islamic, whoever drug cartels.
I know a lady who lived in southern Manhattan in the 1970's. Down the block was a chapter of the Hells Angels. The Angels did not want a heavy police presence in the area, so the word was out that no street crime would be tolerated. The neighborhood was VERY safe.
Similar dynamics apply to the Mafia. Plus, their families, and friends of family members live in the area, and it's easier to just put out the word that unsanctioned thuggery will not be tolerated.
Buddif it were le matin in Kebec, da fellow might also 'av h'in 'is poches two eggs side by each facing da sun, a pair of toasts, and bacon parallel, là!
(sarc: My best Jean Chretien imitation!)
To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.
Canada Ping!
Buddif it were le matin in Kebec, da fellow might also 'av h'in 'is poches two eggs side by each facing da sun, a pair of toasts, and bacon parallel, là!
(sarc: My best Jean Chretien imitation!)
Not bad at all. Now that I reside in sunny (ha!) Iowa, I am rethinking my move from Canada to the land of Ronald Reagan which has transposed to the land of Osama bin Barack.
To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.
Me too, please and thank you.
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Boy oh boy. I see the Muslim in Chief here, and compare him to Steven Harper, and the differences in unemployment rates (and their trends), and I really sometimes think about going back.
Reading, PA NEVER had it so good when the Mafia ran it (years and years ago). Same with Scranton. Now, the politicians are the crooks.
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