Canada's Most Powerful Mafia Boss Came Home to Nothing But Names

Canada's Most Powerful Mafia Boss Came Home to Nothing But Names On May 20, 2010, a 70-year-old man left a funeral home in Montreal, called his wife to say he was picking up steaks for dinner, and vanished 300 metres from his own front door. His car was found at the curb, windows down, keys in the ignition. No blood. No struggle. No body. Eight years later a court declared him dead on the basis of nothing but time. 🚬 His name was Paolo Renda, and he was the consigliere of the Rizzuto organization — the family that ran the Montreal underworld for three decades. The one man who might have stopped what happened next was 3,000 kilometres away, in a federal prison in Colorado, reading about the destruction of his own family in the newspapers. This is the story of Vito Rizzuto: the "Teflon Don" who kept Sicilians, Calabrians, biker gangs and street crews at the same table for almost thirty years without a war — and of the three years it took to take all of it apart while he sat in a cell. His son. His counsellor. His acting boss. His 86-year-old father. All of it, one after another, and nothing he could do about any of it. A full documentary on the rise and collapse of the Rizzuto family, Project Colisée, the 2.5% construction skim, the pre-stamped customs cards at Trudeau Airport, the 1978 murder that founded the organization, and the unsolved disappearance that ended it. 🇨🇦 Nothing here glorifies organized crime. Where the record is unproven, the video says so — and a lot of this record is unproven. 📌 What do you think Vito should have done with his last year? Tell us in the comments. #VitoRizzuto #MontrealMafia #TrueCrime #OrganizedCrime #Mafia #Documentary #Canada #ColdCase #RizzutoFamily #CrimeDocumentary SOURCES 📚 CBC News — reporting on the disappearance of Paolo Renda (2010) and his declaration of death (2018) CBC News — coverage of the killing of Nicolo Rizzuto Sr., November 2010 Montreal Gazette — reporting by André Cédilot and Paul Cherry on the Rizzuto organization, the Violi murder and the 2009–2013 killings National Post — coverage of Vito Rizzuto's release from FCI Florence and his return to Canada, October 2012 The Globe and Mail — reporting on Project Colisée wiretaps and the Consenza Social Club recordings CTV News Montreal — testimony before the Charbonneau Commission on the 2.5% construction skim Global News — profiles of the Rizzuto family and Cattolica Eraclea RCMP — Project Colisée, November 2006 (public case summaries) United States District Court, Eastern District of New York — Vito Rizzuto guilty plea, May 2007 Coroner's report, Quebec — death of Giuseppe De Vito, July 2013 "The Sixth Family" by Lee Lamothe and Adrian Humphreys "Mafia Inc." by André Cédilot and André Noël