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Nicola Rizzuto (February 18, 1924November 10, 2010), also known as Nick Rizzuto, was the leader of the Sicilian faction of the Bonanno crime family in Montreal, Quebec who later pushed out the Calabrian faction. Rizzuto was born in Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, in 1924, and immigrated to Canada in 1954 when the family settled in Montreal.〔 (Hit 'signals war' ), National Post, November 9, 2010 〕 Nick's son Vito Rizzuto, before his death on December 23, 2013, was allegedly the godfather of the Sicilian Mafia in Canada. ==Early life== Rizzuto was born in Sicily in the town of Cattolica Eraclea. In 1925, his father Vito immigrated to the United States of America with his brother-in-law Calogero Renda and 4 others. Vito's wife stayed with her son Nicola in Sicily. In 1933, Vito was murdered in New York by rival gangsters forcing Nicola to grow up with a stepfather. Nicola married a girl named Libertina Manno, during the early 1940s, the daughter of a local Mafia leader. In 1954, Nicola took his new family and settled in Montreal, Canada. He was able to form his own crew with help from several other Sicilian relatives and associates living there.〔 Rizzuto had ties to organized crime in Canada, the United States, Venezuela and Italy. He began his Mafia career in Canada as an associate of the Cotroni crime family that controlled much of Montreal's drug trade in the 1970s while answering to the Bonanno crime family of New York. He was, however, more closely linked to the Sicilian Mafia, in particular the Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan, who came from the same region in the province of Agrigento.〔(The Rothschilds of the Mafia on Aruba ), by Tom Blickman, Transnational Organized Crime, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 1997〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicola Rizzuto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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