Mar 17 2007
Spotlight on Canada’s ‘quiet don’
Lamothe has authored several books on organized crime, including the 2001 bestseller Bloodlines: The Rise and Fall of the Mafia’s Royal Family.
Humphreys covers organized crime for the National Post and is the author of The Enforcer, a bestselling 1999 biography of Hamilton-based mob boss Johnny (Pops) Papalia.
The Sixth Family traces Rizutto’s life from his birth in Sicily in 1946 to his extradition.
With a reporter’s eye for details and a novelist’s gift for storytelling, the two authors lay bare the Rizutto family’s inner workings and international connections.
Terry Pender is a city hall reporter at The Record.
THE SIXTH FAMILY
Vito Rizzuto, whose face graces the cover of The Sixth Family, used to be known as the “quiet don” - until last summer when the alleged crime boss from Canada was extradited to the United States to face numerous charges in connection with a 1981 multiple slaying. Then in November, a takedown by Canadian police led to the arrest of more than 70 people linked to the Rizzuto network, most of them in Montreal.
For years the Italian Mafia in North Amercia was led by five major families. In their book, authors Lee Lamothe and Adrian Humphreys describe the creation of the Montreal network by Rizzuto, who not only heads the “sixth family,” but is now “one of the biggest names in global crime.”
TERRY PENDER (Mar 17, 2007) http://www.therecord.com/NASApp/cs/
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