‘From this day forward, you’re a member of the Bonanno family. Congratulations.” With those words, paid police agent was initiated into the Mafia in Canada in case that leads to convictions in the U.S. and Hamilton, including against Giuseppe and Domenico Violi, Hamilton brothers whose father Paolo Violi was killed in a war with the Rizzuto crime family of Montreal.

Domenico Violi was hit with an eight-year prison term for selling drugs to a police agent posing as a Bonanno family member. Now the agent’s deep in witness protection and Violi heads off to prison. Decades ago, Violi’s father Paolo was undone by an undercover police officer who lived above his headquarters.

Vito Rizzuto’s name surfaces in a complaint by a Toronto woman against Toronto Police Service. Story concerns casino in Dominican Republic where Rizzuto popped up in 2013. Rizzuto had a place there after he was released from prison in the fall of 2012 More to come.

Leonardo Rizzuto, son of Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto, says he was targeted by police because of the family name. His dad died five years ago of reportedly natural causes after serving time in American prison for his role in three gangland hits in New York.

Happy, happy day! Bad Blood goes international as Netflix Original. Season One begins December 7. Take a bow Mark Montefiore, Michael Konyves, Kim Coates.

Statistics suggest it’s getting tougher and tougher to solve murders. Why do some killers – especially mob ones – get away with it?

Prosecutor calls for lengthy prison term for Giuseppe Ursino, GTA ‘Ndrangheta boss convicted of cocaine trafficking. Sentencing hearing will continue into new year.

Police have busted a ring that smuggling handguns across the border – including 25 in the gas tank of a rental SUV bound for Toronto. Guns went to street gangs and individual criminals, police say.

Police in Montreal placed a bug in law office to hear mobsters geographically carving up Montreal in post-Vito Rizzuto days. Gregory Woolley, Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito overheard in police operation called Project Magot.

Murderer Randolph Brown was in my 2010 book, The Bandido Massacre. He was one of four men who beat drug dealer Shawn Douse to death. I particularly remember the sad and dignified presence of Douse’s father at the court case. Now judge has ruled that Brown must serve out his sentence in maximum security facility.