Mafia Inc.: The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada's Sicilian Clan

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Random House of Canada, Aug 7, 2012 - True Crime - 544 pages

Updated and available for the first time in English, Mafia Inc. reveals how the Rizzuto clan built their Canadian empire through force and corruption, alliances and compromises, and turned it into one of the most powerful criminal organizations in North America. Relying on extensive court documents, police sources and sources in the family's home village in Sicily, Montréal journalists André Cédilot and André Noël reconstruct the history of the Rizzuto clan, and expose how its business extends throughout Canada and the world, shaping the criminal underworld, influencing politicians and bending the will of business leaders to their own self-satisfying ends.

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Contents

Foreword
1
Corpses
5
Vendetta
27
From Cattolica Eraclea to Montreal
51
Sicilians and Calabrians
77
Assassinations
101
The Narcobourgeoisie
127
Hash and Coke
153
Jailed
327
Illustrious Relations
347
Operation Colisée
371
Tentacles
407
Collapse
437
Epilogue
479
Chronology
495
Glossary
501

From Venezuela to Italy
177
Operation Compote
201
The Money Trail
225
Project Omertà
249
Conquering Ontario
277
Mafia
301
Bibliography
503
Acknowledgements
513
Photo Permissions
517
Index
519
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About the author (2012)

ANDRÉ CÉDILOT was a justice reporter at Montréal's La Presse for 35 years, with a special interest in Italian mafia and organized crime. Often interviewed as an authority on these subjects, he regularly acts as a consultant for documentaries and television series.

ANDRÉ NOËL has been an investigative reporter at La Presse for over 20 years. His work has won him several prestigious awards in Québec and across Canada. He often writes with André Cédilot about the mafia. In the course of his career, he has published six books on a wide range of subjects. The author lives in Montréal, Québec.

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