 Welcome into the original gangsters podcast breaking news quick hitter edition. We're going to go back up to the great white north and shed some context and analysis into this ongoing feud between the Hells Angels and the residual mob as we've been calling it here on on the on the OG and a gangster report. It's a war within a war within the great Montreal mob war that erupted in the late 2000s. At one point, for a long time, the Razudos and the Hells Angels were formed an alliance. And in the last couple of years, we've seen that alliance fall apart. And now the two organizations are in a public war with each other. And you have Marty Robert, the top Hells Angel in Montreal, allegedly trying to stage a hostile takeover of the residual mob and there's been a lot of questions of where this all came from. A lot of the reporting started in 2023, a little bit in late 22. The assumption was this all kind of had percolated in 22 and broke out in 23. That's not what happened. This entire war within a war can trace back to the March 2019 murder of a Niagara region Hells Angel by the name of dirty Diaz Michael. I'm going to butcher this guy's name but Michael Diabattru Schulde, who went by the nickname dirty Diaz was a collector for the Niagara Hells Angels was working as a part of the Hells Angels was working in concert with the residual mob in a big sports gambling operation. It was believed by the risottos that dirty Diaz was stealing. And without going through proper channels the way that would normally occur in a an alliance of sorts when you have two groups working together. They don't really necessarily act autonomously. In this case, Leonardo risotto, the head of the risotto mob took over for his dad miscalculated this it looks, it looks like. He decided to put a hit according to my sources. He decided to put a hit on dirty Diaz without contacting the Hells Angels without letting them know that they were going to do some house cleaning. And according to my sources dispatched a four person hit team from Montreal to Toronto to the Toronto area to assassinate dirty Diaz. Now, three of those four men in that hit team were convicted of the murder at trial in the winner of 2022. Mark Issa L. Curry, the alleged getaway driver in the dirty Diaz hit was murdered in retaliation, allegedly, a couple weeks ago, right before Christmas, was murdered leaving a banquet hall in suburban Montreal, gone down in the parking lot. And according to my sources, it was a gift from the Hells Angels. And it was a message to Leonardo risotto that we're still hunting you. And old debts are being called in old markers. So it looks like everything started to fray in the spring of 2019 and I don't think it broke out into the open until 2022 23, but we can now trace all of this acrimony between the risotto mob and the Hells Angels. So after almost 30 years of a partnership. It all fell apart in a suburb of Toronto in March, 2019 dirty Diaz was leaving the Huff gymnasium where you just worked out. He was hit in broad daylight. And there was a Ontario police unit doing surveillance on dirty Diaz because Diaz had come up in the operation Hobart case. So he had a surveillance unit on him, like 24 seven, the surveillance unit watched the hit. It was very brazen, very public. He was leaving the gym took fire ran back into the gym was screaming for people to call 911 and then eventually took six point blank shots to the head and neck in the vestibule of that gym. It looks like that hit team had come up and spent a couple days casing their target. It looks like they had spent almost a month on making plans. His, his Jeep dirty Diaz's Jeep grand Cherokee had a tracking device device on it a GPS tracking device that the hit team had allegedly put on his or put attached to his car about a month before his murder. And I'm told that the blowback the response from the Hells Angels when they they heard what had happened with with Diaz was they went through the roof. And they saw this as a major sign of disrespect. And it was really the beginning of the end. And I think in my my analysis of this is it speaks to how Leonardo Rizzuto doesn't have his finger on the pulse when it comes to doing business and having a relationship that benefits both parties with people like the Hells Angels Leonardo Rizzuto is more refined than his dad was his dad was somebody that although was very polished, very, you know, the quintessential mafia Don, but he was somebody that could get along with everybody. He was a mafia politician, and he was able to communicate and do business the Hells Angels on the level. I'm told that the Hells Angels look at Leonardo Rizzuto and think that he thumbs their nose at him that he thumbs their nose at them that he looks down upon them that thinks that he's better than them that he's a more sophisticated better criminal than the Hells Angels and this has not this tonality hasn't played well with the Marty Robert group. And his decision to order a murder of a Hells Angel without the permission of the Hells Angels while in the middle of a alliance that was aiding you. Remember, Leonardo Rizzuto and the Rizzuto Empire was under siege there was an insurgents there still is, and the Hells Angels came to their defense. This is the fact that you would order a murder of one of the Hells Angels men without going through proper channels without getting me okay you know flies in the face of any mutual respect that was afforded before. And the fact that I like I'm saying that the curry was acquitted of being the getaway driver claims that he just happened to be with these guys that decided to carry out a hit and that he had no knowledge of the hit before it was going to take Hells Angels call bullshit on that, but you know he's living with a an ex on his back, he was living as a target for for a good year and a half before they finally got him. And dirty Diaz was somebody that might have been a younger guy he was only 32 years old, but Marty knew him. Chick del Basso knew him who was an Italian that was working very close with the bikers who eventually got in the middle of this dispute and was assassinated back in June. But more importantly, Teflon Rob Barletta, who was one of Marty's top war generals, who was a boss of Hells Angels chapters in London, Ontario as well as Niagara. He liked dirty Diaz a lot, and he was incredibly upset by this murder I'm told, and he has been somebody that has not forgotten it and has been in Marty's ear that this has to be avenged. All alleged all coming from my sources none of this is been proven in a court of law, and that what happened in December with L Curry could be a result of Rob Barletta wanting to exact personal vengeance on the person that killed dirty Diaz or was a part of the team that killed dirty Diaz. So I just wanted to keep people in the loop here. The Canadian press, they've talked about the Diaz murder. They've reported on L Curry's murder, but they haven't put all the pieces of the puzzle together and I just want to contextualize and, you know, and fatally say that all of this craziness in 2022-23 now into 24 can be traced back to the spring of 2019 and the murder of a Hells Angel Niagara chapter enforcer named dirty Diaz. We will keep you updated with all the most breaking news up in the Great White North when it relates to this war within a war. I'm Scott Bernstein, OG pod out.