Much like the American CIA that uses mercenaries, cutouts, and has an intelligence division of CIA agents at every American Embassy and Consulate worldwide, so does Saudi Intelligence aka Saudi General Intelligence Presidency (GIP). CIA personnel are stationed at all U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide, operating under diplomatic cover as part of a "station" led by a Chief of Station (COS). These officials, often including case or operations officers, gather foreign intelligence, cultivate sources, and sometimes conduct technical surveillance through the Special Collection Service (SCS). Saudi Intelligence aka Saudi General Intelligence Presidency (GIP) does the exact same thing at it's embassies and consulates worldwide and in 1998, 1999, 2000, and up to Sept 2001 in the run up to the 9/11 attacks, Prince Turki al-Faisal Al Saud was the boss! The General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), or Al Mukhabarat Al Aammah, is Saudi Arabia's primary intelligence agency established in 1955 to handle national security, counterterrorism, and foreign intelligence.
Just prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Prince Turki was removed from his post as chief of Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Intelligence Service GIP, a position he held for 25 years. Most explanations for Prince Turki Al-Faisal abrupt departure revolved around his controversial ties to Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. Prince Turki himself admitted to meeting with bin Laden several times during the 1980s. Since the mid-1990s, Prince Turki Al-Faisal had anchored the King Abdallah faction, and under his leadership (Prince Turki Al-Faisal) Saudi intelligence GIP had become difficult to distinguish from al-Qaeda. In particular, Saudi intelligence GIP had served as Osama bin Laden's nexus to the Wahhabi network of charities, foundations, religious clerics (Imams) and other funding sources. Prince Turki (GIP boss) was instrumental in arranging a meeting in Kandahar, Afghanistan, between the head of Iraq's terror network, Faruk Hejazi, and Osama bin Laden in December 1998.
Saudi spies Omar al-Bayoumi & Abdulaziz al-Hijji were leaders of 9/11 hijackers support network in San Diego and Sarasota Fl. FBI documents reveal that a senior Saudi official and influential former ambassador to the U.S., Prince Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud secretly paid Omar al-Bayoumi a monthly stipend in exchange for intelligence information in the late 1990’s and leading up to Sept. 11, 2001. FBI reports describe Bayoumi as a “cooptee,” or part-time agent, of the Saudi intelligence service, but say he reported to the kingdom’s powerful ambassador to Washington, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.
Pince Bandar then forwarded the information provided by Omar al-Bayoumi to the GIP boss Prince Turki Al-Faisal of Saudi General Intelligence Presidency for further vetting and investigation, the documents allege. A court affidavit filed on 3 February 2015 claims that Zacarias Moussaoui was a courier between Osama bin Laden and Turki bin Faisal Al Saud in the late 1990s, and that Turki introduced Moussaoui to Bandar. Zacarias Moussaoui stated on oath and wrote to Judge George B. Daniels that Saudi royal family members, including Prince Bandar, donated to Al-Qaeda and helped finance the 11 September attacks (9/11).
Although Saudi officials insist that Omar al-Bayoumi merely volunteered at a
local mosque, the British evidence points to his deeper collaboration
with the Ministry of Islamic Affairs. The Saudi royals had established
the ministry in 1993 as part of a governing pact with the powerful
clergy. In return for political support, they gave the clerics effective
control over domestic religious matters and funded their efforts to
spread their fundamentalist Wahhabi brand of Islam overseas.
According to the 9/11 commission report, Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders began discussing their “planes operation” in the spring of 1999. A videotape taken from Omar al-Bayoumi’s Birmingham home by police after the 9/11 attacks is even more at odds with the image he conveyed to the FBI and the 9/11 commission. The video follows Bayoumi as he tours Washington, D.C., with two visiting Saudi clerics early in the summer of 1999. “We greet you, the esteemed brothers, and we welcome you from Washington,” Bayoumi says on the video. Later, standing before the camera, he reports as “Omar al-Bayoumi from Capitol Hill, the Capitol building.” But the video’s timing is noteworthy. According to the 9/11 commission report, Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders began discussing their “planes operation” in the spring of 1999. Although they disagreed on which U.S. landmarks to strike, the report states, “all of them wanted to hit the Capitol.”
The two Saudi clerics who joined Bayoumi on the trip, Adel al-Sadhan and Mutaeb al-Sudairy, were so-called propagators — emissaries of the Islamic Affairs ministry sent to proselytize abroad. U.S. investigators later linked them to a handful of Islamist militants. Most notably, Sudairy, whom Bayoumi describes as the emir, or leader, of the Washington trip, spent several months living in Columbia, Missouri, with Ziyad Khaleel, a Palestinian-American al-Qaida member who delivered a satellite phone to bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1998. The Qaida leader used the phone to coordinate the deadly bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, FBI officials have said.
Two weeks before the 9/11 hijackers’ arrival in LA, for example, the records show calls among Bayoumi, Thumairy and the Islamic Affairs director at the Saudi Embassy in Washington. Bayoumi and Thumairy also made a number of calls around that time to a noted Yemeni American cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, who later emerged as an important al-Qaida leader in Yemen. It has long been known that Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in 2011, had some contact with Hazmi and Mihdhar in San Diego and met the same two 9/11 hijackers after moving to a mosque in Falls Church, Virginia. New evidence filed in the court case points to a more significant relationship. Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki appears to have met 9/11 hijackers Hazmi and Mihdhar as soon as they arrived in San Diego. Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki knew the hijackers were part of the al-Qaeda network.
"Mi
Casa Su Casa", Saudi Abdulaziz al-Hijji rolled out the red carpet at
his home in Prestancia Sarasota Fl for the three 9/11 pilots who trained
at nearby Venice, especially for Ziad Jarrah, 26, and his wife Aysel
Senguen, 27, in Jan 2001. A 2002 memo from an FBI field agent with the
Southwest Florida Domestic Security Task Force noted “many connections”
between the Saudi al-Hijji’s at Prestancia in Sarasota Fl and three of
the pilot hijackers — Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah and Marwan al-Shehhi,
according to the Herald-Tribune.
The three learned to fly planes at Huffman Aviation and Florida Flight
Training Center (FFTC) in the nearby city of Venice. It appears that
Ziad Jarrah was to have had a Hamburg GR partner in Venice Florida
C05416972. The FAA issued Ziad Jarrah a private pilot certificate on
July 30, 2000. In or about August 2000, Ziad Jarrah (9/11 pilot flight
#93) attempted to enroll al-Qaeda terrorist Ramzi Binalshibh in the
'Florida Flight Training Center' (FFTC) flight school in Venice Florida,
his visa application was denied 4 times. Ramzi Binalshibh sent a
deposit to the Florida Flight Training Center but failed on multiple
occasions in the year 2000 to obtain a US Visa.
Sarasota support network for 9/11 hijackers was Abdulaziz
al-Hijji met frequently with the 9/11 hijackers while in Sarasota up to end of Dec 2000. Abdulaziz
al-Hijji's father in law is Esam Ghazzawi the guy who owns the house were al-Hijji stayed and who was adviser to Saudi royal Prince Fahd bin Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud whose cousin was Prince Turki Al-Faisal the boss of the Saudi
Arabia’s General Intelligence Presidency (GIP) foreign spy agency.
Prince Fahd bin Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud received his bachelor’s
degree in political science from the University of California in San
Diego CA. Prince Fahd pursued his higher studies in the United States
for six and a half years. Sarasota Saudi Abdulaziz
al-Hijji a spy for the Saudi Arabia’s General Intelligence Presidency (GIP) rolled
out the red carpet at his home in Prestancia Sarasota Fl
for the three 9/11 pilots who trained at nearby Venice Fl, especially
for Ziad Jarrah, 26, and his wife. Sarasota Saudi Abdulaziz al-Hijji was
a spy for the Saudi Arabia’s General Intelligence Presidency (GIP)
while in the USA. Sarasota-area support network for 9/11 hijackers is
rich Saudi Arabian businessman with ties to the kingdom’s ruling House
of Saud. Esam Abbas Ghazzawi, son of a former Saudi ambassador, stepped
from the shadows when he posted a website publicizing his
extravagant design work for Saudi royalty and details about his
background. Esam Abbas Ghazzawi a Saudi businessman with long-standing
ties to the Saudi royal family specifically identified as a former
advisor to the late Prince Fahd bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Prince
Fahd bin Salman (1955–2001), son of King Salman, and Prince Turki Al-Faisal
(son of King Faisal), are both prominent grandsons of Saudi Arabia’s
founder, King Abdulaziz. They are cousins, with Prince Turki being a
senior royal (former intelligence chief of GIP) and Prince Fahd being a
former governor/businessman.
State records show that Ghazzawi and his
American-born wife, Deborah, owned the home at 4224 Escondito Circle in
Sarasota that became the focus of an FBI investigation after neighbors
reported that its occupants — Ghazzawi’s daughter Anoud and his
son-in-law Abdulaziz al-Hijji — had abruptly moved out and returned with
Ghazzawi to Saudi Arabia about two weeks before the terrorist attacks –
leaving behind their cars, clothes, furniture and other personal
belongings. Authorities later obtained security records from the gated
community and determined that cars driven by 9/11 hijack leader Mohamed
Atta and other terrorist figures visited the al-Hijjis’ residence. A
heavily-censored April 2002 FBI report released to Florida Bulldog in
2013 amid ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation says FBI
agents found “many connections”
to “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001.”
The FBI, however, kept those findings secret from both Congress and the
9/11 Commission.
Sarasota Private Investigator Bill Warner, True Crime Stories, Bill Warner Investigations Sarasota Fl
UPDATE; March 10, 2026, Terrorists fire shots at US Consulate in Toronto in ‘absolutely unacceptable’ attack. Nothing good comes out of Toronto Canada. Shots were fired at the US Consulate
in Toronto early Tuesday in the latest attack on an American diplomatic
outpost amid the ongoing war with Iran. At a late morning news
conference, Toronto police
said they were looking for two men in a white Honda CR-V. Investigators
believe the men stopped in front of the consulate around 4:30 a.m. and
fired shots from a handgun at the building.
The 8 Toronto Crooked Cops arrested are directly linked to Mafia Bosses Angelo Figliomeni and Vincenzo DeMaria. Toronto Mob Town; Court files indicate that Angelo Figliomeni, alleged boss of the Toronto wing of Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta mafia, conspired with multiple Toronto-area police officers. Toronto is now witnessing the biggest police corruption scandal in the city’s long history. Italian Convictions: Angelo Figliomeni previously fled Italy, where he was convicted in the 1990s for weapons possession and mafia association; he remains wanted by Italian authorities for an outstanding 20-year sentence. The 'ndrangheta is Italy's most powerful mafia group. It is believed to be the number one trafficker of cocaine into Europe and in recent years has made inroads into Germany, Canada and USA. In 2025 and 2026, President Trump has taken a hardline stance on Canada's border, characterizing it as a major national security threat due to illegal immigration and drug trafficking. He has used the threat of 25% tariffs on Canadian goods to compel increased security measures, including a "strike force" to fight fentanyl, in a broader economic pressure campaign.
It's all about the cocaine. Originating in Calabria, in southern Italy, the secretive group consists of dozens clans that answer to senior leaders. Italian police said "for the first time" they discovered that suspected Canadian 'ndrangheta members were authorized to meet and take decisions in Canada, rather than in Italy. As seen in the Netflix doc; Mafia: Most Wanted Toronto Canada.“No corner of society is immune from the reach of organized crime, but when organized crime penetrates the Toronto police service, the harm goes far beyond the immediate wrongdoing.” This is a twisting tale that runs from Toronto Canada to Mexico’s murderous Sinaloa Cartel and the cocaine empire.
UPDATE Feb 4th, 2026 CTV Toronto Mafia News; York Regional Police announce the results of ‘Project South,’ a lengthy investigation into organized crime and corruption. Eight Toronto police officers have been charged in connection with a York Regional Police organized crime (Mafia) and corruption probe of the Toronto mafia. The investigation began in June 2025 and is described as a "lengthy" probe into a "horrendous" organized crime network. Sources told CP24 that the Toronto officers charged, with drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit murder, four of whom have been suspended without pay, worked in 11 and 12 Divisions as well as one officer from the Guns and Gangs Unit.
As of February 5, 2026, multiple Toronto Police Service officers—with reports indicating at least seven to nine officers, plus a retired officer—have been arrested and charged in a major organized crime and corruption investigation dubbed Project South. The case of former Toronto cop John Madeley is allegedly connected to the arrests of at least nine other Toronto Police officers, sources say. CP24 has confirmed through multiple sources the names of two of the officers charged in this investigation: Tim Barnhardt, of 12 Division, and Rob Black. “This is one of the darkest days in the history of the Toronto Police Service.” At a joint press conference, Jim MacSween , chief of the York Regional Police, said the investigation — known as Project South — uncovered allegations that serving and former Toronto police officers unlawfully accessed and shared confidential information, accepted bribes and participated in drug trafficking. The pay to play politicians are next!
Seven Toronto police officers and one retired officer have been arrested and charged. Here is a breakdown of those charges: Const. Timothy Barnhardt, 56 — 17 charges, including conspiracy to obstruct justice, conspiracy to commit public mischief, and numerous drug trafficking charges. Sgt. Robert Black, 42 — four charges, including conspiracy to obstruct justice and possession for the purpose of trafficking (cocaine).
Retired constable, John Madeley Sr., 55 — 11 charges, including breach of trust by public officer and possession of prohibited weapon. His son, Const. John Madeley Jr., 29 — two charges: breach of trust by public officer and unauthorized use of computer.
Sgt. Carl Grellette, 49 — four charges, including conspiracy to obstruct justice and breach of trust by public officer.
Const. Saurabjit Bedi, 38 — six charges, including conspiracy to obstruct justice and conspiracy to traffic in substance.
Const. Derek McCormick, 57 — six charges, including obstruction of justice and multiple counts of theft under $5,000.
Const. Elias Mouawad, 24 — two charges: breach of trust by public officer and unauthorized use of computer.
Investigators also allege that civilian suspect, Brian Da Costa, played a central role in a sophisticated drug trafficking network involving the export of cannabis and fentanyl and the importation of cocaine. Da Costa was allegedly exporting cannabis to Europe and police said they seized a quantity of fentanyl as well. When police officers arrested Mr Da Costa on January 23, 2026, officers seized 169 pounds of cannabis and one pound of fentanyl, which believed was destined outbound for a European location.
Police have linked Angelo Figliomeni to a sprawling property empire. ‘Tell Me What You Need’: Wiretaps Caught Alleged Toronto Mafia Boss Speaking With Property Developer. Legal documents that reporters obtained from the case show that police also believed the group was laundering money through real estate in the Greater Toronto Area. Since then, Figliomeni and some of his associates have continued to buy up high-priced assets. Over the past three years, Figliomeni has purchased two homes in the York Region, north of Toronto, worth a combined $3.5 million, bringing the total number of properties in his name to eight, as of November 2024.
Canadian Mafia attempting to “infiltrate” government agencies, political positions such as crooked Councillors and departments, a report obtained by Global News suggests. Canada is a constitutional monarchy with King Charles III as the Head of State, and it has a Prime Minister who is the Head of Government. The Prime Minister of Canada is Mark Carney. He was sworn in as the 24th Prime Minister in March 2025 and is the Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. 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 FigliomeniItalian ’Ndrangheta Mafia Boss
in Toronto Area Has His Paw Prints all Over Banking, Real Estate and crooked local
Politicians. The Italian mob “infiltration” is primarily taking place within local and “regional” governments outside Toronto. 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 criminal cesspool filled with organized crime (Mafia)crooked politicians and Islamic terrorists particularly in the Mississauga area.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.
There's a major U.S. immigration policy shift under the Trump administration requiring most non-citizens, including Canadians staying over 30 days, to register with U.S. authorities, a rule effective April 11, 2025, with penalties for non-compliance, though many already documented individuals like Green Card holders, those with I-94s are considered registered, but still must carry proof. ("Canadian citizens can live and work in the U.S. using an E-2 Treaty Investor Visa by making a "substantial" investment in a new or existing U.S. business"). This "Alien Registration Requirement" (ARR) mandates carrying proof of status and reporting address changes, with registration done via USCIS, creating new burdens for some Canadians.
Beginning Dec. 26, 2025, all non-Americans—including Canadians—who stay in the U.S. longer than 30 days must register with US Govt! Mandatory registration for non-Americans, including Canadians, staying over 30 days starts Dec. 26, 2025, reflects a significant, existing U.S. immigration law (Alien Registration Act of 1940, part of the INA) that was newly enforced and broadened in 2025 by the Trump administration, requiring registration for many, particularly those entering by land without an I-94, but generally not impacting short-term visitors with standard visas or I-94s.
Key aspects include creating a USCIS account, potentially submitting Form G-325R, getting biometrics, and carrying proof, with failure to comply carrying criminal penalties.The E-2 Treaty Investor Visa: For Canadians who make a substantial investment, e.g., buying or starting a restaurant, auto repair shop, clinic and own at least 50% of the U.S. business, allowing them to live and work in the U.S..
In my business interactions with two men, one from Toronto Canada and one from Alberta Canada who own a business in Sarasota Fl and who live part time in Sarasota Fl with homes in Alberta and Toronto, I find them to be thugs and grafters that I had to file lawsuits on! These are the same kind of deadbeats (Canadians) that come to Florida every winter and cheat and chisel every chance they get, they are well known for stiffing wait staff in Florida restaurants with a 5% tip or less for service.
KEEP CANADIANS IN CANADA; In February 2025, Canadian hockey fans in Montreal and Toronto and other cities loudly booed the U.S. national anthem and flag during 4 Nations Face-Off games. These actions were protests against U.S. tariffs and political rhetoric. The tense atmosphere led to on-ice brawls and retaliatory boos from American fans. UPDATE 'KICK THEIR ASS'; the U.S. and Canadian men's hockey teams will play each other in the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina Italy, where they are both top medal contenders with full NHL player participation allowed. While they are in different preliminary groups for 2026—USA in Group C and Canada in Group A—they are likely to meet in the knockout stage. The men’s hockey Winter Olympics tournament begins on Feb. 11, 2026, with the final on Feb. 22, 2026.
A dirtbag from Toronto Canada arrested and convicted of sex crimes in USA, Jan 31, 2026; A Canadian national pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after admitting he sexually exploited over 100 young girls by creating an online persona and targeting them on social media. Ramanan Pathmanathan, 40, of Toronto, Canada, pleaded guilty to the production of child pornography and to coercion and enticement of a minor. Pathmanathan was arrested on Dec. 3, 2025, after being temporarily surrendered to the United States, where he has remained incarcerated pending trial. As part of this plea agreement, Pathmanathan admitted that for seven years, up until the day of his arrest in Canada, Pathmanathan sexually exploited over 100 minor females. Pathmanathan posed as an American teenage boy while communicating with the minor victims over popular social media platforms. The victims ranged in ages from 11 to 17-years-old and were located all over the United States. While video chatting with the minor victims, Pathmanathan persuaded and coerced the children to engage in sexually explicit acts and, without their knowledge or consent, Pathmanathan screen recorded the minors while engaged in such behavior — collecting the videos of his abuse. For these charges, Pathmanathan faces a maximum penalty of life in prison, with a mandatory minimum of 25 years in prison, in addition to fines and a period of supervised release.
Update on Money laundering by organized crime in Alberta, Canada, an ongoing issue, driven largely by drug trafficking and facilitated by complex schemes involving shell companies, cash-intensive businesses, and online transactions. Law enforcement, such as the RCMP's Integrated Money Laundering Investigative Team (IMLIT) and Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT), has actively investigated and prosecuted cases, uncovering large-scale operations and seizing millions in illicit proceeds.
Angelo Figliomeniis 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.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, 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.” Court
files indicate that Angelo Figliomeni, alleged boss of the Toronto wing
of Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta mafia, was in contact with multiple Toronto-area
real estate developers. Police have linked Figliomeni to a sprawling
property empire.
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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UPDATE; March 10, 2026, Terrorists fire shots at US Consulate in Toronto in ‘absolutely unacceptable’ attack. Nothing good comes out of Toronto Canada. Shots were fired at the US Consulate
in Toronto early Tuesday in the latest attack on an American diplomatic
outpost amid the ongoing war with Iran. At a late morning news
conference, Toronto police
said they were looking for two men in a white Honda CR-V. Investigators
believe the men stopped in front of the consulate around 4:30 a.m. and
fired shots from a handgun at the building.
Ramanan Pathmanathan a dirtbag from Toronto Canada
arrested and convicted of sex crimes in USA, Friday Jan 30, 2026; Ramanan Pathmanathan - one of the most prolific alleged child predators and sextortionists FBI Houston has ever encountered. Ramanan Pathmanathan a Canadian
national pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia after admitting he sexually exploited over 100 children by creating an online persona and targeting them on social media. Ramanan Pathmanathan, 40, of Toronto, Canada, pleaded guilty to the production of child pornography and to coercion and enticement of a minor. Pathmanathan was arrested on Dec. 3, 2025, after being temporarily surrendered to
the United States, where he has remained incarcerated pending trial.
Criminal Background: Ramanan Pathmanathan was previously sentenced to 12 years in prison in Canada in 2022 for similar offenses (child sex offenders never cured). As
part of this plea agreement, Pathmanathan admitted that for seven years,
up until the day of his arrest in Canada, Pathmanathan
sexually exploited over 100 minor females. Pathmanathan posed as an
American teenage boy while communicating with the minor victims over
popular social media platforms. The victims ranged in ages from 11
to 17-years-old and were located all over the United States. While
video chatting with the minor victims, Pathmanathan persuaded and
coerced the children to engage in sexually explicit acts and, without
their knowledge or consent, Pathmanathan
screen recorded the minors while engaged in such behavior — collecting
the videos of his abuse.For these charges, Pathmanathan faces a maximum
penalty of life in prison, with a mandatory minimum of 25 years in prison, in addition to fines and a period of supervised release.
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