84-year-old Nick Rizzuto, and five of his associates pleaded guilty Thursday to gangsterism, extortion, and importing and trafficking drugs.The six men were arrested in a police dragnet in November 2006 and faced more than 60 charges backed by a mountain of evidence.Police said they recorded more than one million of their conversations by wiretap and on 191 occasions photographed them dividing up bundles of cash at a cafe in Montreal's north end where Rizzuto and his captains held court.
Rizzuto, along with Paolo Renda, Francesco Arcadi, Lorenzo Giordano, Francesco Del Balso and Rocco Sollecito will be sentenced on October 16.His son Vito Rizzuto, once believed to be Canada's top mafioso, was arrested in 2004 and is serving a 10-year sentence in the United States for his role in the murders of three captains in the notorious Bonnanno clan of New York, in 1981.The elder Rizzuto came to Canada in 1954 from the Sicilian town of Cattolica Eraclea. During a criminal underworld power struggle in the late 1970s, he was forced into exile.He returned to Canada in 1993 after serving a sentence for cocaine possession in Venezuela.
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