Italian Canadian crime family based in Montreal, Quebec, founded in the 1970s by Nicolo Rizzuto. It operates primarily in southern Quebec and Ontario, involved in racketeering, drug trafficking, illegal gambling, loan sharking, extortion, weapons trafficking, and murder. The FBI considers it a faction of the Bonanno crime family, while Canadian authorities view it as independent. After internal power struggles and deaths of key members, the family is currently led by Leonardo Rizzuto.
CRIMENET has extracted 104 linkages for this organization, including 61 cooperative ties across 15 organizations, 38 conflicts across 9 organizations, 5 other connections and footprints in 2 countries.
the Rizzuto family employed the fishermen to use their boats to smuggle drugs from Turkey into Montreal
The Rizzuto family along with their allies in the Cuntrera-Caruana clan were major players in the economy of Venezuela via their holding company of Aceroes Prensados, which owned real estate, ranches, trucking companies, factories, hotels, shipping, service providers and building contractors whose assets in Venezuela in the 1980s were worth $500 million.