More gratuitous Rizzuto chatter

   Ze biggest whodonit in years in Montreal is clearly the ongoing wipeout of the Rizzuto family.
   Today a Toronto paper took a stab in the dark and implied that Sal Montagna, who moved back to Montreal last year after being deported as the alleged Bonnano family boss in New York, could somehow be orchestrating the killings. He's in the photo at left. I added the Jesus is my coach crest on his shirt because I thought it might dis align the calumny of the unlikely allegations.
   This logic of course would suggest that Montagna, a Sicilian, would be involved in assassinating fellow Sicilians, not the likeliest of scenarios.
   Another explanation that an insider suggested to Coolopolis is that the killings are a direct result of the sentence that Vito Rizzuto was given in the States. He received a mere 10 years in prison in in connection to a murder which he was directly involved in. Many on the inside assumed Vito would be sentenced to a much longer stay in the pigpen, particularly for racketeering. When a mobster gets what's perceived to be a short sentence, it's a red flag to other mobsters. A series of Mafia arrests ensued and some suspect that the brotherhood put one plus one together and came out with a window.
   The Cosa Nostra suspected that Vito Rizzuto had rolled over. That is to say, Mafiosos suspected Rizzuto of making a deal with cops to sell out some of his fellows Men of Honour in exchange for a lighter sentence. This, according to that argument, led to the death of his father in his kitche and son on Upper Lachine and brother in law in parts unknown. Of course snitching is the number one problem in the gangs nowadays.
   Montagna earned respect in his mileu for refusing to testify. But then Paolo Violi did the same in the 70s and it did him not good at all.
   In a similar vein - when Frank Cotroni was sentenced to a seven year bid for cocaine in the USA it was believed that he co-operated with authorities. The Mafia expressed their displeasure by killing his 42 year old son Paolo Cotroni with three bullets after he arrived home in his blue Corvette in August 1998. Paolo had nothing to do with any Cosa Nostra nonsense but the mob wanted Frank, then 67, to suffer the loss of his son. They allowed Frank to die a natural death.
   The end of the story has already been written. After Vito is no longer in the picture, there will be a sit down and all soldiers loyal to the Rizzutos will be loyal to the new man in charge. Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.