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The International Kingpins: Montreal's Rizzuto Family

2023/1/3
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Danny Gold 和 Sean Williams: 本集讲述了蒙特利尔里祖托家族的崛起、发展和衰落。该家族通过其复杂的国际网络,控制了蒙特利尔的犯罪活动,并与世界各地的犯罪组织建立了联系。他们参与了毒品走私、敲诈勒索、网络赌博等多种犯罪活动,并通过家族联姻和广泛的合作关系,建立了强大的势力。在维托·里祖托的领导下,该家族达到了顶峰,统一了蒙特利尔各个帮派,并与纽约五大家族以及其他国际犯罪组织建立了合作关系。然而,随着维托的入狱以及家族内部和外部的冲突,里祖托家族的势力逐渐衰落,最终走向没落。 Danny Gold 和 Sean Williams: 本集还详细介绍了里祖托家族与其他犯罪组织的关系,例如与纽约五大家族、委内瑞拉的Contrera Caruana家族、地狱天使摩托车帮以及爱尔兰西区帮的关系。这些合作关系帮助里祖托家族扩展其犯罪活动,并控制了蒙特利尔的毒品市场。此外,本集还探讨了加拿大政府对里祖托家族的调查以及对该家族成员的逮捕和审判。这些行动对里祖托家族的势力造成了重大打击,并导致了蒙特利尔黑帮战争的爆发。

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Vito Rizzuto, son of Niccolo Rizzuto, becomes a key figure in Montreal's underworld by aligning with international crime groups and uniting warring factions, but faces internal conflicts and law enforcement scrutiny.

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International organized crime has rarely seen a figure as powerful and connected as Vito Rizzuto, Montreal's underworld king. When his father Nic left Italy for Montreal with his 8-year-old son, Nic was a small-timer looking to capitalize on his family connections and Sicilian upbringing. With the Calabrians and Sicilians at each other's necks in Canada's vice capital, Nic eventually worked his way to the top of Montreal's underworld in no small part due to his in-law mafioso contacts in drug trafficking hubs like Venezuela and Sicily. Montreal's heroin king partnered with New York's La Cosa Nostra while paving the way for his son Vito to take over, and Vito proved to be even more capable than his father, doing business with organized crime groups everywhere from Lebanon to China to Venezuela and uniting Montreal's warring factions into a massive unified front...before it all came crashing down.

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