A professor and a man who served prison time for Canada’s biggest securities heist share thoughts on last week’s $20-million theft from Pearson International Airport. Time is not on the side of authorities, retired crook says.

Martino Caputo, 49, has been hit with child support, spousal support and nanny fees for a baby born as he serves a life term for a murder committed in a cocaine deal gone wrong with the Wolfpack Alliance. He says he makes $50,000 yearly behind bars through legal but lucky sports bets.

Giuseppe (Joe) Violi was turned down for full parole but gained day parole after pleading guilty in massive cocaine conspiracy case, in which paid police agent was granted membership in New York mob.

Canada’s spy network warned Western governments to brace themselves for conspiracy theories and sometimes violent attacks as the pandemic began, according to newly-unsealed documents stamped “TOP SECRET,” “Confidential” and ‘SECRET/ CANADIAN EYES ONLY.”

I had the chance to discuss why major drug cases sometimes collapse with Steve Paikin of The Agenda on TVO.

The early years of the pandemic were very healthy ones for organized criminals who specialized in financial crimes, according to a government report obtained under Access to Information Act.

Domenico Cugliari, formerly of the GTA, was deported to Italy over allegations of ties to ‘Ndrangheta, the Mafia strain from Calabria. He was in Canada for three years.

It was fun doing this podcast with Raju Mudhar of The Toronto Star’s This Matters on Robby Alkhalil of the Wolfpack Alliance.

The fate of Matthew Dupre, a Canadian Forces veteran and alleged underworld hitman, is now in the hands of the federal justice minister. Dupre says he wants to be sent from a Canadian jail to Thailand to face charges he helped carry out the underworld of a gangster who was deported from Canada.

Matthew Dupre is now in a Canadian jail, where he denies he’s a killer-for-hire for the Wolfpack Alliance. His lawyer says the Canadian Forces veteran wants to be sent to Thailand to face murder charges – even if it means risking a death sentence.