Together, all these activities made up about $10 billion in organized crime revenues. Other activities included white collar crime (e.g., insurance and construction fraud, illegal bankruptcy) Īrson bank robbery motor vehicle theft computer crime and counterfeiting. The joint committee calculated that organized crime revenue came from pornography prostitution īookmaking gaming houses illegal lotteries and other gambling as well as loan sharking and extortion. The report claimed that organized crime figures had interests in Canada’s textile, cheese and disposal industries, as well as vending machine companies, meat companies, home-insulationĬompanies, auto body shops and car dealerships, among others. The committee was formed in response to a 1980 report by the British Columbia Attorney General’s Organized crime in Canada took in about $20 billion annually. In 1984, a joint federal- provincial committee of justice officials estimated that
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Into the Mafia the widely publicized report of the 1974 Waisberg Commission into construction violence in Ontario Īnd a series of mob killings in Montreal. This was thanks to various court cases, as well as Quebec inquiries Only in the 1970s did the existence of a highly organized criminal network in Canada become known to the public. The creation of the American Witness Protection Program also encouraged Mafia defectors and informers to cooperate with the police and prosecutors. Then, in the 1970s, wiretaps allowed police to document Mafia leaders discussing their hierarchy and operations in the (named after the chief witness, Mafia member Joe Valachi). The first was the revelations of the United States Senate’s “Valachi” hearings in 1963 There have been many crime gangs in Canada whose membership was based mainly on ethnicity, including Irish Jewish Ĭhinese Jamaican Haitian Vietnamese Somali and others.įor a long time, many scholars did not believe organized crime was highly structured, or capable of sophisticated operations. In North America, just about every major national or ethnic group and every segment of society has been Or “the Mob.” The Mafia is the best known and most documented group. There is more to organized crime in Canada than the Italian criminal association known as the Mafia In the middle, in the dark suit, is Montreal's Vito Rizzuto. Murdered Canadian gangster Gerlando Sciascia, left, looks for his car keys while Joseph Massino, right, waits to get into a car in New York in 1981.
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