Leonardo Rizzuto and Stefano Sollecito are among those charged with the first-degree murder of Lorenzo LoPresti.

For the third time in less than two decades, the Rizzuto organization has been hit by a major investigation into organized crime. During a press conference held at Montreal police headquarters ...

Leonardo Rizzuto, seen in 2019, is among those who filed a motion requesting a transfer from Rivière-des-Prairies to the Montreal Detention Centre. (Credit: Allen McInnis) Some of the men with alleged ...

MONTREAL - A scholar who has spent the better part of a decade studying the Italian Mafia had some simple and frank advice on Tuesday for Superior Court Justice France Charbonneau and her ...

MONTREAL — Vito Rizzuto was born a mobster and born to be a mobster. Raised in a gangster clan, his smooth personality and targeted ruthlessness helped him become the most powerful and feared ...

Mafia expert and former undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone, better known as Donnie Brasco, is expected to share knowledge of the criminal underworld to Montreal officials as early as Monday, the ...

Maude Hebert-Chaput of Montreal's Sacre-Coeur Hospital says Rizzuto died of natural causes early on Monday. Authorities considered Rizzuto the head of Canada's most powerful criminal organisation when ...

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A drive-by shooting on a Laval highway just north of Montreal left Leonardo Rizzuto—son of the late Vito Rizzuto, who once led the Montreal mafia—with mild injuries. Sûreté du Québec, the provincial ...

Francois “Chico” Tremblay (Marc Legault) is an upwardly mobile gangster. After spending years of his young life in and out of prison, he’s sick of being stuck in the lower rungs of the Montreal mob, ...

Some of the men with alleged ties to the Montreal Mafia, arrested five months ago in Project Alliance, were transferred from the Rivière-des-Prairies Detention Centre after shots were fired near the ...