Archive for May 2023

Former Canadian Forces soldier Matthew Dupre got his request – he was flown to Bangkok to face charges he’s an international hitman. Thai authorities say they’ve taken death penalty off the table.

Claudia Iacono of Montreal was the daughter-in-law of mafiosi Moreno Gallo, who was murdered in Acapulco in 2013 during war with crime family of the late Vito Rizzuto. Claudia was just shot dead, a month after someone tried to murder Vito’s son. Does the unwritten rule of not harming women really exist? A chat on…

Vincenzo (Jimmy) DeMaria told his deportation hearing that he’s a victim of anti-Italian profiling as he fights to stay in Canada.

Jimmy DeMaria came to Canada as a nine-month-old. Now 69, and a convicted killer, he faces deportation as he never took out Canadian citizenship. He told an admissibility hearing that he knows nothing of the ‘Ndrangheta or any other organized crime group.

There was plenty of interest south of the border in the attempted hit recently on Leonardo Rizzuto. I spoke with the Original Gangsters Podcast in Michigan about it recently.