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The global pandemic is a sea change for organized crime groups globally. The smart ones are seizing opportunities while the weakest fall to the wayside. Socially distanced funerals after mob hits, improved delivery systems for drugs and an explosion of crime on the Internet are all part of the new reality.

The shooting of Michael Costa, 35, on Thursday evening has a complicated backstory, that includes a B.C. mobster in witness protection who was murdered, an affair with a mobster’s wife and a cop who was disciplined for lying.

Jimmy De Maria argued that he shouldn’t be deported to his birthplace of Italy because of Covid-19 and it worked.

Alfonso Caruana – once called the Wayne Gretzky of the Canadian mafia – has lost an Italian court battle appealing an 18 year sentence. He claimed in Ontario he was a $400 a week car wash worker, despite driving a late model Cadillac and Mercedes.

There were armed guards with dogs outside the illegal casino and waiters in tuxedos and more guns inside. Police give details of organized crime casino bust in GTA.

Mihale (Big Mike, Rookie) Leventis pleaded guilty this week in New York to playing a senior role in a Wolfpack-connected drug smuggling ring. His younger brother Anastasios (Tassos) Leventis was murdered in broad daylight in Toronto in January 2017.

There were guard dogs, a private chef, a swimming pool, wine cellar and high stakes gambling at a Markham mansion that was recently busted.

The lifeless body of Michael Graham Cudmore, 39, of Hamilton, was found in a rural Mexican ditch. He was a suspect in the 2017 murders of Hamilton mobster Angelo Musitano and Mila Barbera, a Vaughan veterinary assistant. Cudmore’s the second person connected to the murders to be found dead in Mexico.

“Debwewin” is the Ojibwe word for truth but it’s not just any truth. It’s supposed to be from the heart and to help in healing. I learned about that from Sam George while writing about the death of his brother Anthony (Dudley) George, an unarmed Stoney Point man who was shot to death by a…

A Milton factory owner faces multiple charges after the RCMP charged him with supplying chemicals and equipment for the illegal manufacture of fentanyl and methamphetamine.