Italian Canadian crime family based in Montreal, Quebec, established in the 1940s by Vincenzo Cotroni. Considered a branch of the Bonanno crime family, it controlled territory in Quebec and Ontario. An internal war in the late 1970s led to the rise of the Rizzuto faction. The family declined after Vincenzo's death in 1984 and his brother Frank's in 2004.
CRIMENET has extracted 39 linkages for this organization, including 18 cooperative ties across 9 organizations, 16 conflicts across 5 organizations, 5 other connections and footprints in 3 countries.
On 4 April 1997, Frank Cotroni was sentenced to seven years in prison after he and his son pleaded guilty to plotting to import 180 kilograms of cocaine from Colombia.
The recordings of an oblivious Violi revealed much about the operations of the Mafia in not only Canada, but also the U.S. and Italy as well.
In the 1950s, the Cotroni family formed a strong connection to the New York -based Bonanno crime family... Galante planned to make Montreal a pivotal location in the importation of heroin from overseas for distribution in New York and across the United States via the French Connection.