Bill Warner Sarasota Private Investigations Claims Angelo Figliomeni Mafia Boss in Toronto Has Paw Prints all Over Banking and Councillors.

Canadian Mafia attempting to “infiltrate” government agencies, political positions such as Councillors and departments, a report obtained by Global News suggests. The Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC) reported in 2022 -2023 that 29 organized Italian crime groups reportedly have “influence and access” within the public sector, while at least 369 groups are believed to be trying to gain a toehold in government politics. Angelo Figliomeni Italian ’Ndrangheta Mafia Boss in Toronto Area Has His Paw Prints all Over Banking and Local Politicians Such as Councillors. The Italian mob “infiltration” is primarily taking place within local and “regional” governments from Toronto to Township of Georgian Bay with Councillors of direct Italian heritage elected, the CISC suggests, and groups “may be using the benefits of this access for interprovincial or international criminal activities.” The CISC report notes that public sector corruption, criminal (Mafia) “infiltration” can boost the cost of government projects by up to 50 per cent, while also damaging public confidence in institutions. TORONTO Canada is a cesspool filled with organized crime (Mafia), are major real estate developers backing local Italian politicians such as Councillors. Canada’s organized crime groups (Mafia) must have been really into HGTV growing up, with real estate being a top interest. Mafia financial crimes such as mortgage and real estate fraud are amongst the top 3 activities in Toronto. In my interaction with men from Toronto and Alberta Canada, I find them to be thugs and grafters. Only thing Toronto Canada is good for is al-Qaeda terrorists and the Italian mob, dirtbags all!

Angelo Figliomeni is the head of Italian ’Ndrangheta Mafia in the Greater Toronto Area he has his paw prints all over Banking and Politics, be careful who you vote for, check out Italian politicians. The Toronto-area Siderno group has included the Coluccio, Tavernese, DeMaria, Figliomeni, Ruso, and Commisso crime families; Carmine Verduci was also linked with the 'Ndrangheta group, Anthony Graziano was a go between Toronto and the NYC mob. “The Canadian security intelligence apparatus, inclusive of the police, does not have the same protections and the same benefits that our international partners have when it comes down to investigating transnational organized crime threats,” said Calvin Chrustie, a retired senior federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. Stephen Schneider, a criminology professor at St. Mary’s University in Nova Scotia, said Italian authorities are “frustrated” by the fact that alleged ’Ndrangheta members have found security in Canada. But there’s little they can do. Figliomeni was previously convicted on weapons charges in Italy and still faces charges there, where court documents show he was wanted for “mafia association.” But he is safe in Canada, where the “mafia association” charge is not an extraditable offense. In fact, it doesn’t even exist in the Canadian legal code. A faction of the ’Ndrangheta based in Toronto allegedly relied on relationships with staff at two major Canadian banks to facilitate their financial activities. Now, a joint investigation from OCCRP, The Toronto Star, and Italy’s la Repubblica newspaper reveals how two major Canadian banks were allegedly infiltrated by Figliomeni and his associates. Reporters obtained court records from Project Sindacato, and spoke with law enforcement and banking sources close to the investigation. They also scoured court documents from Italy, where police worked on a parallel investigation in collaboration with their Canadian counterparts. In addition to Martino at RBC, reporters uncovered evidence that Figliomeni’s associates had contact with two TD Bank employees. Police alleged that one of the TD employees was “fully aware of the money laundering endeavors” of the Figliomeni group. Neither of them were charged.

Mob Town Toronto Ont. --Until the mid-1980s, there were at least four major Mafia-style groups in Toronto. The Toronto-area Siderno group has included the Coluccio, Tavernese, DeMaria, Figliomeni, Ruso, and Commisso crime families; Leaders are based both in Calabria and Ontario. Carmine Verduci and Cosimo Stalteri were also linked with the 'Ndrangheta group. A Mafia-owned company is awarded a lucrative contract by the City of Toronto. Mob backed politicians, be careful who you vote for, check out Italian politicians from Toronto to Township of Georgian Bay. Elected Canadian officials are public figures and as such are open to criticism by the Media, and me. A cabinet minister intimidates a mayor over a proposed housing development, and on and on it goes in Toronto. Toronto has emerged as a global hub for the Italian Ndrangheta mafia dealing drugs and money laundering and with money comes power, with power comes ventures into politics for the ultimate power trip. The Commisso clan is involved in extortion, money laundering and international drug trafficking using family ties in Italy, Canada, the United States and Australia and as claimed, backing politicians in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) at all levels to gain and edge over the police. Anthony Graziano was an American mobster and consigliere in the Bonanno crime family in New York City. Anthony Graziano was directly linked to Gerlando "George from Canada" Sciascia who also had close ties to the Bonanno crew in Montreal, which included Vito 'Ratso' Rizzuto, it was all connected. Gerlando "George from Canada" Sciascia was a major narcotics trafficker in Canada. "Graziano Clan" names like Anthony Graziano, Joseph Graziano, and Carmine Graziano linked to Organized Crime and Politics in Canada. Up next on the Toronto mob scene was the Wolfpack which took in other members, most notably the Alkhalil family; Johnny Raposo of Toronto; Martino "Lil Guy" Caputo of Niagara-on-the-Lake; Shane Maloney of Montreal's West End Gang; and Nick Nero, a drug smuggler from Niagara Falls. The Wolfpack, gang was active in Toronto throughout the 1980s and 1990s, is one of the most notorious Canadian mafia organizations. The Wolfpack leaders used encrypted texts on the Pretty Good Privacy system to communicate, and wrote frankly about plans to commit murders. Martino Caputo had no criminal record and was one of Toronto's most successful businessmen, who owned and operated the well regarded Savourie restaurant from 1996 to 2004. Woodbridge or St. Clair Avenue West in Toronto and East York, are where the homes for Toronto-area Mafiosi are located.

After six years, police are still looking for the final suspect in a pair of Hamilton mob murders — and while police believe the 32-year-old Hamilton man is still alive, the country where he may be is still unclear. Daniel Tomassetti has been wanted in connection with the shooting death of notorious mobster Angelo Musitano and Mila Barberi, an innocent bystander killed in a botched mob hit. Tuesday marked six years since Barberi's death. The secret of the ’Ndrangheta’s mafia success is secrecy itself or, as they call it, omertà. If there is evidence (there is) organized crime has a firm grip in Toronto Ontario's politics and economy, former Premier Dalton McGuinty said he wants to hear about it in 2013, he was clueless. Former RCMP chief superintendent Ben Soave told a French national television network that organized crime has infiltrated Toronto Ontario at least as much as it has in Montreal Quebec, if not more. The Canadian equivalent of the FBI is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or RCMP. Toronto Ontario has the same organized crime groups involved in corruption, and they are probably even more active than in Montreal Quebec former RCMP boss Ben Soave said in 2013. Then Premier Dalton McGuinty was responding to a joint investigation by the Toronto Star newspaper and CBC's French-language investigative program Enquête, which turned up information that what’s thought to be the mightiest branch of the mob, the Calabrian Mafia or 'Ndrangheta, has extensively infiltrated his Toronto province's business and political spheres in 2013. Former Premier Dalton McGuinty seemed clueless about the Toronto mob in 2013. It did not get better with time, currently in 2023 far left liberal Justin Trudeau is Canada's 23rd Prime Minister and the mob has flourished in Toronto, bigger than ever. Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC) 2021 Report on Organized Crime reveals they identified thousands of organized crime groups. The report also reveals these organizations have infiltrated everything from real estate to government. And people say their local government in Toronto isn’t accessible. Clearly they are, you’re just not a big enough criminal to access them.

Photo credit the front page of the Toronto Sun: A hitman shot and killed Eddie 'The Hurricane' Melo a former professional boxer and mob enforcer in 2001. Melo's real job was as the agent for the Cotroni mob family in Toronto, bringing in strippers and video game machines from Montreal to various Toronto bars. In 1993, a Toronto police report listed Melo as a member of the Toronto Siderno Group. Years ago, most underworld settling of accounts was committed by made members or close associates. No outsiders. Ever. That hasn’t been the case in the slew of gangland rubouts that has rattled the Toronto Ontario underworld over the past three years. The bitter battle for control of drugs, gambling and construction rackets has even seeped into Mexico where Ontario mobsters have been found shot to death in ditches. Or have simply just disappeared. The latest installment in the bloody saga played out in front of Domani's restaurant on Roncesvalles Ave. At about 4 p.m., the owner of the Domani Restaurant (permanently closed), Paolo Caputo, 64, was taken out with a pair of slugs. Despite published reports, Caputo’s links to organized crime are fairly tentative, experts told the Toronto Sun, in spite of a couple of brushes with the cops. His brother, however, is in the clink for the Little Italy murder of a cocaine rival. “If Caputo was a ‘Ndrangheta family boss in Toronto he was a real sleeper,” James Dubro told the Sun. “I think it was definitely a message thing.” He added: “But sleeper bosses do happen: People you least suspect actually being quietly and secretly a cell leader.” Cops and observers have been aware for some time that the mob has turned to street gangs to do their dirty work. Guns, dope or dough is their reward. “We have noted in several cases the use of what appear to be street-gang associated gunmen for TOC (traditional organized crime) ‘hits’,” Toronto Police Det.-Insp. Hank Idsinga told the Sun.
photo credit national post. POLITICS AND THE MOB IN TORONTO: July 3rd, 2023 - Convicted killer Vincenzo DeMaria, 69, is fighting deportation to Italy where he will be tried for murder. Vincenzo 'Jimmy' DeMaria, denies allegations pointing to him as an influential member of a powerful global group called the 'Ndrangheta in Toronto, in reality he is the Boss of Bosses. The York Region baker, businessman and convicted killer Vincenzo (Jimmy) DeMaria says he wasn’t a bit worried when he heard Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto wanted him dead. Around the same time police warned that Rizzuto wanted him dead, DeMaria’s family bakery, Angel's Bakery & Deli on Rogers Road, in York Region was torched in 2012. Vincenzo (Jimmy) DeMaria said he is related by marriage to some members of the Figliomeni family who also face Mafia-related charges in Italy. Commisso 'ndrina is a powerful clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organization in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina is based in Siderno, but also has a branch in the 'Greater Toronto Area' in Canada as part of the Siderno Group. Former RCMP chief superintendent Ben Soave said that Ndrangheta organized crime has infiltrated Toronto Ontario's business and political spheres. The Commisso clan is involved in extortion, money laundering and international drug trafficking using family ties in Italy, Canada, the United States and Australia and as claimed, backing politicians in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) at all levels to gain and edge over the police. Police hands are tied in Toronto when dealing with the mob. The Canadian equivalent of the FBI is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or RCMP. Organized crime groups committed 36 murders in 2019 and 42 in 2022 in the Greater Toronto Area, the highest number of any area in Canada.

MOB HIT: Antonio “Tony Scratch” Fiorda was shot and killed outside an upscale Etobicoke restaurant in 2019. “Tony Scratch” was a veteran mobster and enforcer who provided security for some of Toronto’s powerful Mafia figures. Antonio Fiorda, 50, went by the simpler name Tony, but was known on the street by a more memorable nickname: “Scratch.” The targeted daylight attack on Fiorda in the parking lot of a busy strip mall across the road from Sherway Gardens, a large shopping mall further highlights the instability in Canada’s underworld, both in Toronto Ontario and Montreal Quebec. Fiorda, of Maple, north of Toronto, was considered a trusted insider in what police call the Commisso crime family. In 1996, Fiorda was charged after Toronto police seized an AK-47 assault rifle, a pipe bomb and other explosives from a North York home, a charge he disputed. He did prison time for that and vowed to never return. Toronto Police announced that Saaid “Postman” Mohiadin a Toronto rapper has been charged with first-degree murder of Antonio “Tony Scratch” Fiorda, while Jordan Thompson, 18, is charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder, they were paid $60,000 for the hit. Italian authorities say Canada, especially Toronto Ontario, has become a base for the Calabrian Mafia, or ‘Ndrangheta particularly for money laundering and drugs because Canada is perceived to have a lax approach to dealing with the Mob. Italian anti-Mafia prosecutor Roberto DiPalma revealed to a joint Radio-Canada/Toronto Star investigation that Canada may have become a place where Mob figures can hide, hoping that Canadian justice won’t touch them. “It is 10 years since we told the Canadians to pay attention because ‘Ndrangheta is very present in Canada, mostly in Toronto,” said prosecutor Nicola Gratteri. “We did not have good collaboration with the Canadian police.”

There are more Italian mobsters in Toronto Canada than all of New York City and Staten Island combined. Toronto wiseguys like “Fat Jimmy” DeMaria, Cosimo "The Quail" Commisso, Pasquale "Pat The Whale" Musitano and Giacomo "The Shark" Cassano are/were the real deal killers straight out of Calabria Italy. ‘The less you know the better it is for your health’. Giacomo Cassano, 46, of Toronto, on the run since 2019 remains wanted by Toronto police. A high ranking Mafia fugitive in Toronto fought for years to avoid being exactly where he is now, arrested in Italy, Domenico 'the blade' Cugliari, an alleged member of the ’Ndrangheta crime family, married a Canadian woman while living in Toronto, but will now face trial in Italy. Former Toronto mob boss Carmine Verduci was shot to death outside the Regina Sports Café in Woodbridge, Ontario on April 24, 2014. Carmine Verduci was allegedly part of a group that became involved with Salvatore Montagna, head of the Bonanno crime family of New York City. Anthony Graziano was consigliere in the Bonanno crime family directly linked to Gerlando "George from Canada" Sciascia, it's all connected. The Calabrian Mafia or 'Ndrangheta is a prominent Italian Mafia-type organized crime syndicate based in the peninsular region of Calabria and dating back to the 18th century. It is considered the most powerful organized crime group in the world. 

Giuseppe "The Master" Commisso, supreme boss of Siderno owns a  laundry mat that serves as cover for him. Toronto Canada is one of the strongholds of the ’Ndrangheta crime family, along with countries such as Germany, Australia and the United States. Giuseppe "The Master" Commisso, supreme boss of Siderno directly links to Rocco Remo Commisso who has for decades been named as a part of the mob in Canada and is a brother of crime boss Cosimo "The Quail" Commisso. In 1993, Cosimo Commisso was arrested, and later convicted of five murders and three attempted murders between May 1989 and July 1991, and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998. After 26 years in prison, on January 9th 2019, the Court of Appeal of Naples acquitted Commisso in a review process. Bosses of the ’Ndrangheta have been in Canada for decades, hiding in plain sight among friends and family. Many are Canadian citizens, others are avoiding prison or rivals in Italy, usually in the Toronto area. The Toronto-area Siderno group has included the Coluccio, Tavernese, Vincenzo “Fat Jimmy” DeMaria, Fingers Figliomeni, Ruso, and Commisso crime families; Carmine Verduci was also linked with the 'Ndrangheta group whose leaders are based both in Calabria, Italy and Toronto Ontario. The Commissos are one of the 'Ndrangheta's biggest and most important clans, involved in the global cocaine business and money laundering out of Toronto. 

Top Mob Hit Man Sam "Iceman" Calautti gunned down at a Vaughan Canada GTA stag party April 25, 2021. He was the prime suspect in a string of his own mob killings “He was a stone-cold killer,” said retired RCMP Staff Sgt. Larry Tronstad — but the hit man had enemies. The hundred or so stragglers who remained outside the Terrace Banquet Centre in Vaughan didn’t do a thing when the hit man approached Salvatore (Sam"Iceman") Calautti’s sleek black BMW X6 after the bookie’s stag. Calautti and his long-time associate James Tusek didn’t seem particularly concerned either as the gunman walked closer, around 1 a.m. on Friday, July 12, 2013. Whatever the reason, the gunman got up close to the BMW before he opened fire, killing Sam "Iceman" Calautti and Tusek before either of them could manage a single shot. A police source said he wondered if the killings were set up by someone Calautti trusted. “It’s hard to think someone snuck up on him. Sam "Iceman" Calautti was the type of guy who always carried a gun.”

The three main Italian mafia-style groups — the Cosa Nostra, Camorra and Ndrangheta (Toronto) — operate worldwide but keep a very low profile outside of Italy, making it difficult for law enforcement agencies to detect these organized crime groups. There are five main New York City Mafia families, known as the Five Families: the Gambino, Lucchese, Genovese, Bonanno, and Colombo families. The Italian American Mafia has long dominated organized crime in the United States. Accused Toronto Mafia boss Vincenzo “Fat Jimmy” DeMaria (he owns a bakery) says ethnic profiling and anti-Italian stereotypes are behind efforts to deport him from Canada for organized criminal activity.

Mob Guy Shot and Killed July 2nd 2018: Investigators with the York Regional Police Homicide Unit are gathering video cam and home security video along the street since the shooting, hoping for hard physical evidence. Police have not yet released any suspect information in the murders of Cosimo Ernesto Commisso, 33, of Woodbridge and Chantelle Almedia, 26, of Toronto. Commisso was related to Cosimo 'The Quail' Commisso of Siderno, Italy, considered by police there to be an ‘Ndrangheta organized crime boss. Anthony Graziano was an American mobster and consigliere in the Bonanno crime family in New York City. Anthony Graziano was directly linked to Gerlando "George from Canada" Sciascia who also had close ties to the Bonanno crew in Montreal, which included Vito 'Ratso' Rizzuto, it was all connected. Toronto-area police say more than two dozen people were arrested and millions of dollars in luxury items have been seized in what they're calling the force's largest organized crime take down. York Region Police Chief Eric Jolliffe says the arrests followed an 18-month investigation involving a family from Italy that was allegedly operating a criminal organization in the Greater Toronto Area for about three decades. Jolliffe says the investigation, dubbed 'Project Sindacato', was launched after the force noticed a spike in crime in Vaughan, north of Toronto, and involved about 500 officers from eight police forces across the province.

(photo credit the hamilton spectator). Mob Guy Shot and Killed July 13, 2020: Pasquale (Pat The Whale) Musitano was killed Friday, but Mafia experts say the notorious Hamilton mobster was living on borrowed time long before the fatal shot was fired. Close calls and brushes with death had stalked the scion of the Musitano crime family for years. He survived one shooting that peppered his home with bullet holes in 2017, and another, just over a year before his death, that sent him to hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. "He was a dead man walking," said Antonio Nicaso, a Mafia expert who teaches courses on organized crime at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont. "In the world of the Mafia, revenge does not lapse. Revenge does not have a statute of limitations." Ultimately, the 52-year-old couldn't escape those who were gunning for him. On Friday, he was shot and killed outside a strip mall in Burlington, Ont., west of Toronto.

Canada is so pervasive within the 'Ndrangheta Crime Family that when a gangster in Calabria Italy speaks of "America," he really means Canada. Cosimo Commisso is/was boss of one of 10 'Ndrangheta clans in Ontario, based in Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa and London. Anti-Mafia prosecutors in Italy probing a powerful international crime network say they have uncovered the new face of the Mafia in Toronto, alleging there are seven dominant mob families in the city, each with a boss who sits on an influential board of control. The clans in Canada climbed “to the top of the criminal world,” Italian prosecutors say, by becoming masters of the global drug trade by establishing a “continuous flow of cocaine” from Argentina. “In the city of Toronto there existed seven crime families whose members were mostly of Calabrian origin,” says the prosecutors’ report, a document similar to an affidavit used by authorities to authorize arrest warrants, which was translated from Italian by the National Post. 

The Italian authorities allege that the seven primary ‘Ndrangheta families in the Toronto area are led by: Vincenzo Tavernese, 44, of Thornhill; Cosimo 'Fingers' Figliomeni, 45, of Vaughan; Antonio Coluccio, 40, of Richmond Hill; Cosimo 'The Quail' Commisso, of Toronto; Angelino Figliomeni, 47, of Woodbridge; Vincenzo “Fat Jimmy” DeMaria, 56, (he owns a bakery) of Mississauga; and Domenic Ruso, 65, of Brampton. Cosimo Commisso, whose ethnicity is Calabrians, told the Post “If somebody commits a crime, so be it. Charge me and if I am guilty I will pay. I always take the consequence of my actions. I don’t blame nobody for my actions. I have an extensive criminal record. I did my time. I came out, 21 years ago, 1989, I did my 10 years of parole". The Italian probe targeted the ‘Ndrangheta as it has eclipsed Sicily’s Cosa Nostra as Italy’s most powerful and richest Mafia organization, dominating Europe’s drug trade.

Police and federal authorities have alleged for years that Vincenzo “Fat Jimmy” DeMaria, 56, of Mississauga is a leading member of the ’Ndrangheta, the proper name of the Mafia formed in the Italian region of Calabria, which is one of the world’s most powerful crime groups. To reduce the danger Vincenzo “Fat Jimmy” DeMaria poses, Karri-Lynn Hennebury, an IRB member adjudicating his case, ordered him not to communicate directly or indirectly with several alleged or accused mobsters and mob associates who live in Canada and Italy. The list includes “Fat Jimmy” DeMaria’s brother, Giueseppe (Joe) DeMaria; his cousin, Michele Carabetta; and Luigi Vescio, owner of a chain of funeral homes in the Toronto area (you stab em we slab em), all of whom face charges in Italy for Mafia association after warrants were issued last year. DeMaria is also banned from communicating with two brothers in Vaughan, north of Toronto: Angelo Figliomeni and Cosimo Figliomeni. Authorities in Italy deem them Mafia fugitives. York Regional Police said Angelo was the head of the Figliomeni crime family when he was arrested last year in Project Sindacato, a large anti-Mafia probe. Police and federal authorities have alleged for years that Vincenzo “Fat Jimmy” DeMaria is a leading member of the ’Ndrangheta. DeMaria was also told to steer clear of Rocco Remo Commisso, who has, for decades, been named as a leading mob figure in the Toronto area, and Francesco Commisso, named as a mobster from Italy known as “The Chosen”. All of those men live in or around Toronto.

A May 2018 news report explained the Siderno group's initial involvement in Canada. "Siderno's Old World 'Ndrangheta boss sent acolytes to populate the New World" including Michele Racco who settled in Toronto in 1952, followed by other mob families. According to investigators in Italy, by 2010, Toronto's 'Ndrangheta had climbed "to the top of the criminal world" with "an unbreakable umbilical cord" to Calabria. The report stated that there were seven senior 'Ndrangheta bosses in the Greater Toronto Area, some on the Camera di Controllo, the "board of directors". By mid-2019, Police in Italy and in Canada were convinced that "the ’Ndrangheta’s Canadian presence has become so powerful and influential that the board north of Toronto has the authority to make decisions, not only in relation to Canada’s underworld, but also abroad, even back in Siderno Italy."

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Sarasota Private Investigator Bill Warner Claims St Pete Uhuru Boss Omali Yeshitela Front For Russia Interference in US Elections

GUILTY! 3 U.S. Citizens and 3 Russian Intelligence Officers Charged with Conspiring to Use U.S. Citizens as Illegal Agents of the Russian Government. “Russia’s foreign intelligence service (FSB) allegedly weaponized our First Amendment rights – freedoms Russia denies its own citizens – to divide Americans and interfere in elections in the United States,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.A federal grand jury in Tampa, Florida, returned a superseding indictment charging four U.S. citizens and three Russian nationals with working on behalf of the Russian government and in conjunction with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to conduct a multi-year foreign malign influence campaign in the United States.

UPDATE  December 16, 2024, GUILTY; The Uhuru Three and their supporters walked out of federal court chanting, “not one day. Not one dime.” This comes two years after the FBI raided the Uhuru house in St. Petersburg. That raid led to the arrest and conviction of founder Omali Yeshitela (Black Panther), members Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel. The U.S. government said the three conspired with the founder of the anti-globalization movement of Russia. They were convicted of that charge but acquitted of the more serious charge of acting as agents of a foreign government. HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — The Uhuru Three and their supporters walked out of federal court chanting, “not one day. Not one dime.” This comes two years after the FBI raided the Uhuru house in St. Petersburg. That raid led to the arrest of founder Omali Yeshitela, members Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel.

Among other conduct, the superseding indictment alleges that the Russian defendants recruited, funded and directed U.S. political groups to act as unregistered illegal agents of the Russian government and sow discord and spread pro-Russian propaganda; the indicted intelligence officers, in particular, participated in covertly funding and directing candidates for local office within the United States.

Moreover, from at least November 2014 until July 2022, Ionov allegedly engaged in a years-long foreign malign influence campaign targeting the United States. As a part of the campaign, Ionov allegedly recruited members of political groups within the United States, including the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement (collectively, the APSP) in Florida, Black Hammer in Georgia and a political group in California (referred to in the superseding indictment as U.S. Political Group 3), to participate in the influence campaign and act as agents of Russia in the United States, including the following indicted defendants: 1). Omali Yeshitela, (ex-con Joe Waller) a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and St. Louis, Missouri, who served as the chairman and founder of the APSP, he is former Black Panther member.
2). Penny J. Hess, a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and St. Louis, Missouri, she served as the leader of a component of the APSP;
3). Jesse Nevel, a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and St. Louis, Missouri, who served as a member of a component of the APSP;
4). Augustus C. Romain Jr., aka Gazi Kodzo, a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Atlanta, who served as a leader of the APSP and a founder of Black Hammer in Georgia.

One focus of Ionov’s alleged influence operation was to create the appearance of American popular support for Russia’s annexation of territories in Ukraine. For example, in May 2020, Ionov allegedly sent a request he stated was from “Russia, the Donetsk People’s Republic” – an apparent reference to a Russian-occupied region in eastern Ukraine – to Yeshitela and members of other U.S. political groups to make statements in support of the independence of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, a Russian-backed breakaway state in eastern Ukraine. Ionov later allegedly touted to the FSB that Yeshitela’s video-recorded statement of support was the first time that “American nonprofit organizations congratulated citizens” of the occupied region.

COMMUNISTS IN ST PETE FL: The UHURU movement in St Pete is a Pro-Communist organization run by ex-Black panther Chairman Omali Yeshitela aka ex-con Joe Waller. Bubba Clem and his co-hosts called on the FBI to investigate and shut down the Uhuru Movement 12 years ago, about time! The Uhuru Movement is a worldwide organization, under the leadership of African People's Socialist Party, Communism. A Tampa-based grand jury formally charged a Russian national with spearheading a multi-year influence campaign using U.S. political groups to spread pro-Russian propaganda and interfere in elections, including those in St. Petersburg. The jurors' 24-page indictment was unsealed Friday, detailing a conspiracy prosecutors say played out over seven years. Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, who is a resident of Moscow, faces a charge of conspiring to have U.S. citizens act as illegal agents of the Russian government, according to a DOJ news release.

MONEY TALKS CITIZENSHIP WALKS: Pro Russia Communist sympathizer comrade Akile Anai aka Eritha Akile Cainion (uses two different names), who ran for mayor and is now the leader of the St. Pete Uhuru group, led a press conference. Comrade Eritha Cainion defended Russia, saying the U.S. and other "world Colonial powers have been collaborating against Russia for well into the early 1900s." Comrade Akile Anai aka Eritha Akile Cainion has prior arrests for disorderly conduct and resisting the Police without violence. 

Comrade Akile Anai aka Eritha Akile Cainion, who ran for City Council of St Pete in 2016 and 2017, needs to get on the next boat to Cuba where she will fit right in. Apparently the Russian Govt was financing a local UHURU candidate for City Council of St Pete in 2017. Gee I wonder who that was? “We can have relationships with whoever we want to make this revolution possible,” said Eritha “Akile” Cainion, later adding, “We are in support of Russia.” Omali Yeshitela, a longtime leader of the St. Petersburg Uhuru Movement, said he and his wife were handcuffed and taken out of a home in St. Louis at gunpoint Friday morning. Many innocent people who have escaped the Uhuru Organization have been mentally scarred even to the point of suicide. Omali Yeshitela and his UHURU organization have a long track record of mentally abusing, scamming, harassing, and slumlording, the very people they say they fight for, the poor Black.

The FBI confirmed its raid Friday morning at the headquarters of the Uhuru Movement in St. Petersburg is connected to the alleged conspiracy. Agents carried out a court-authorized warrant at the Uhuru House, located at 1245 18th Ave. S., which is the Florida-based headquarters of a Black international socialist group. They were seen carrying out unidentified boxes for hours. The Uhuru House is home to the Uhuru Movement, which is part of the African People's Socialist Party, according to The Associated Press. 60′s Radical Penny Hess Leader of Omali Yeshitela’s APSC In St Pete Writes “The bullet not the ballot is the best way for the black man in America to gain power”. The African Socialist Party’s ultimate aim, however, is worldwide socialist revolution and the “onward progress of communism” to liberate black people everywhere.

FBI Raids Uhuru House St Pete Links to Russia and Interfere with US Elections, Bubba the Love Sponge and PI Bill Warner told you they were Communists 12 Yeas Ago. On February 25, 2010, Clem played clips of Chairman Omali Yeshitela speaking at a rally in St. Petersburg after the police murder of Hydra Lacy, an African who allegedly killed two cops and wounded another during the police invasion of his home on January 24, 2011. "Article 2 of the African People’s Socialist Party platform calls for the immediate exemption of all blacks from U.S. taxes. The sixth article calls for the immediate release of all “Africans” from U.S. prisons. All blacks are in prison “due to decisions, laws and circumstances which were created by aliens and foreigners for their own benefit and as a means of genocidal colonialist control".

Bubba Clem and his co-hosts called on the FBI to investigate and shut down the Uhuru Movement. “The Mayor should be going to speak to the FBI,” said one of Clem’s co-hosts. They also called on the IRS to investigate the Uhuru Movement’s financial records. After playing the clip of the Chairman speaking, Clem said, “Wouldn’t you just love it if the boys rolled up during one of these little meetings and they just cuffed and stuffed him?”  Chairman Omali Yeshitela went on to speak on our “communist core” as a Party. He said “communism is the destruction of a social system built on exploitation.”

“Private Investigator” Participates in Campaign of Attack Against Uhuru Movement. It has also come to the attention of Uhuru News that a private investigator named Bill Warner has been spying on the Uhuru Movement. Warner is based in Sarasota, FL and runs a blog to document his work as a private investigator. In the past week, Warner (who you can learn more about here) has posted a blog entry about the Uhuru Movement at least once a day, including personal details about the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party. 

On the day before the Sunday community meeting at the Uhuru House, referenced in the above mentioned LEOAffairs post, PI Bill Warner photographed the Uhuru House with a police car sitting right outside and posted it to his blog indicating his role in working with the police in the attack on the movement. On February 28, 2011, Todd “Bubba” Clem interviewed Bill Warner on his show and said that he thinks the Bubba show should hire Bill Warner as their private investigator.

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