Business or Blood by Peter Edwards

Author:Peter Edwards [Edwards, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-345-81378-7
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2015-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

While the elder Rizzuto was meeting his fate, Antonio Coluccio quietly slipped back into North America from the United Kingdom with his bodyguard/driver. In November, he arrived in New York City, then travelled to Niagara Falls, NY. His visitors there included an Ontario man specializing in high-level money management who had been close to Vito.

Early in January 2011, vandals firebombed the Complexe Funéraire Loreto in Saint-Léonard. They did little actual damage, but attacking the Rizzuto-owned business was a powerful public statement nonetheless. It was open season on Vito’s family.

Just a few months later, Big Joey Massino made history by becoming the highest-level rat in the history of La Cosa Nostra when he testified against his successor, Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano. In the course of his testimony, Big Joey calmly explained how he hadn’t really wanted to kill Vito’s friend and associate George (George from Canada) Sciascia back in 1999, after the Montrealer broke mob protocol and criticized a Gambino family member. Big Joey made it sound as though he was just a worker doing his job. “As much as I didn’t want to kill him, I had to kill him.” News of this latest Bonanno defection brought a screaming headline in the New York Post: NOMERTA! MAFIA BOSS A SQUEALER. The April 13, 2011, story began: “There isn’t a hunk of cheese big enough for this rat.” If anything, it was confirmation that Vito—despite his family’s desperate need for friends—had been right in his decision to pull away from the Bonannos.

On March 31, 2011, police found the body of Antonio Di Salvo in his home on Perras Boulevard in Rivière des Prairies. The forty-four-year-old had been a low-profile member in the Rizzuto group, with ties to Francesco Del Balso and Compare Frank Arcadi. The assassination occasioned no real surprise, despite Di salvo’s peripheral association. How could anyone be shocked by a murder after Nicolò was gunned down in his own house, at the feet of his wife and daughter no less? This was a fight to the death, but it was still impossible to identify all of Vito’s enemies. The family’s attackers remained in the shadows, and some still posed as friends.

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