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After booze, what was the main source of income for organized crime in Canada? -
Answer Illegal gambling
Where did the phrase "Octupus of Bookmarking" come from? - Answer In 1938, the
Toronto Daily Star ran a series entitled "Canada in the bookies' web," which
investigated the "vast octopus of bookmaking" that spread from Montreal to Vancouver.
- Up until the end of the Second World War, the illegal gaming industry in Canada was
characterized by pure competition; no one individual or group dominated.
What did Charlie Lucky Luciano do? - Answer In 1933 he created a governing Mafia
Commission in the U.S.
United States and Canada were divided into 24 separate regions, each of which would
be under the jurisdiction of a particular Mafia family.
What was the significance of international pipelines? - Answer International pipeline for
drugs smuggled into the United States.
Throughout the 1930s, Canada's coastlines and official maritime ports were
well-travelled entry points for opium exported from Asia and morphine and heroin
processed in Europe.
The other name for French Connection - Answer The criminal syndicate behind what
would be called the French Connection was L'Union Corse.
Until the mid-1970, the world capital for heroin production and distribution was ... -
Answer Marseilles.
* The hub for the conversion of Turkish opium and Lebanese morphine into heroin.
What was the significance of Montreal? - Answer Quebec's cultural, commercial, and
linguistic ties to France, the subservience of the Mafia in the province to the American
Cosa Nostra, as well as Montreal's inviting seaports and close proximity to New York,
made the city a major entry point for heroin being shipped into North America.
Significance of Palermo? - Answer A major turning point in the development of the
international heroin trade, and Canada's role in the trade, was the meeting hosted by
,Lucky Luciano in Palermo.
Attending the meeting were a delegation of American Mafia leaders, most notably Joe
Bonanno and his underboss Carmine Galante, as well as Sicilian Mafiosi, Gaetano
Badalamenti and Tommaso Buscetta.
Palermo connection to Joe Bonanno - Answer The FBI believed it was at this meeting
that Joseph Bonanno was convinced to participate in the Cosa Nostra's international
heroin trafficking network.
In the late 1950s, members of the Bonanno Family in New York and Montreal became
much more active in organizing the importation and distribution of heroin, which
significantly increased Montreal's role as a North American access point for
European-processed heroin.
What was the significance of Apalachin, NY? - Answer The Palermo meeting was
followed a month later by a summit of Cosa Nostra leaders from every corner of America
and Canada. Held at Mafia associate Joseph Barbara's country estate in the town of
Appalachian in upstate New York, it has been asserted that one of the purposes of the
meeting was to hammer out the details for the distribution of the heroin in America and
Canada by the different Mafia families.
What was the The Nixon administration's impact on heroin? - Answer persuaded Turkey
to ban the cultivation of opium in exchange for subsidization of alternative crops. That
same year, an official agreement was reached with French authorities to crack down on
the extensive heroin processing and trafficking network based in Marseilles
The result of these measures was a major reorganization of heroin trafficking: Turkey
was replaced as the chief supplier of heroin by the "gold triangle" of Thailand, Burma,
and Laos and the "golden crescent" of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.
What was the significance of Gaetano Badalament's role in heroin trafficking? - Answer
Badalamenti was highly receptive to the partnership, recognizing the American market
for heroin would generate untold profits for the Sicilian families.
He made a decision behind the back of his American Mafia partners that escalated the
role of Canada in the new global heroin trafficking hierarchy even further.
What did Tommaso Buscetta do? - Answer Badalamenti instructed Buscetta to create a
parallel pipeline from Sicily to Montreal, Windsor, Toronto and, from there, into the
United States.
Both networks would pass through Canada en route to America.
Who was Harry Davis? - Answer Many of the city's gambling and bookmaking operations
were run by Jewish gangs.
The most powerful gambling boss was Harry Davis.
, Who was Harry Ship? - Answer Another prominent Jewish Gangster was Harry Ship,
called the King of Montreal Gamblers.
East European immigrant Jews (Harry Davis, Barney Sulking, Harry Feldman and Max
Shapiro).
Indebted to Frank Erikson, one of the biggest and wealthiest American bookmakers,
Harris lost his prominente role in Quebec.
Erikson had several silent partners, such as Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, and Frank
Costello.
Two Montreal-based criminals with ties to Costello and Luciano took over Harris'
rackets: Luigi Greco and Frank Petrula.
Which Mafia groups were where? - Answer Montreal Mafia = New York's Bonanno
Family.
Southwestern Ontario = Detroit's Zerilli Family.
The rest of Ontario's underworld = Buffalo's Magaddino Family.
Who was Frank Petrula? - Answer Gambler Frank Petrula brought a huge amount of heat
on his associates when police raided his home in 1954 and found a notebook that
contained a list of municipal politicians and journalists who were bribed a total of
$100,000 to defeat then mayoralty candidate Jean Drapeau, who was a reformer against
the Mob. Petrula was never forgiven for this sloppiness, and it was feared he might start
co-operating with authorities. Soon, he was missing and presumed dead.
Who was Vic Cotroni? - Answer He invested one million dollars to defeat Drapeau in
1957. Sarto Fournier was elected mayor of Montreal.
A friend of the mayor, dr. Ruben Lévesque, founder of the Committee of public morality,
was attacked and beaten.
What did John F. Kennedy think about gangsters fleeing to Canada? - Answer that
meant his administration was doing a good job on the battle against organized crime
Who was the replacement of Vic Cotroni? - Answer Paul Violi
Nick Rizzuto
Montreal War - Answer The war started on Valentine's Day in 1976 with a gun blast
killing Pietro Sciara, considered to be Paul Violi's consigliere.
What was the consortium? - Answer A strategic alliance between the Rizzuto Crime
Family, the Irish Mob (West End Gang), the Hells Angels and the Street Gangs.
The Violi Brothers - Answer The brothers are the sons of Paolo Violi and grandsons of
Giacomo Luppino, both once considered major leaders of the 'Ndrangheta, or Calabrian
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