The motive for why two brothers from Montreal were killed on a rural farm five years ago involves a conflict that dates back even further, after Mob boss Vito Rizzuto was extradited to the United States and convicted of racketeering.
After Rizzuto pleaded guilty in 2007 and was incarcerated in the U.S., the organization he controlled for decades was suddenly left without a leader, and the group came under attack in 2010 and 2011. When he was released and returned to Montreal in November 2012, he appeared to regain control of the Montreal Mafia until he died of cancer a year later.
For years, the Montreal Mafia was led by men of Sicilian origin. The informant said the Scoppa brothers were of Calabrian origin and, throughout 2016, sought to eliminate as many people on the Sicilian side of the Montreal Mafia as possible. While testifying, he carefully recalled who was on a hit list the Scoppa brothers kept on encrypted Blackberry devices.
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