 All right, welcome into another episode of the original games podcast. This is going to be a quick hitter episode with some breaking news. I'm Scott Bernstein, your your host, along with my co-host and partner in crime, Jimmy Bucciolato, the doctor. Hey, new world order for life. Showed out wrestling from the 90s. And Jimmy and I on an aside, Jimmy and I spend a lot of nights texting back and forth about about the the rock and wrestling era of the 1980s when we were child in our childhood about Hulk Hogan and the macho man and Ricky the dragon. We've been in studio a long time. Today's were a bit slap happy at this point. So we are going to talk about the recent arrests that have been made in the last 24 hours in the attempted assassination of Montreal, Mafia Don alleged Montreal Mafia Don Leonardo Rizzuto, who survived a attempted hit back on March 15 of this year. He was driving in on the on a highway in the affluent area of Laval, which is the is like kind of the Beverly Hills of Montreal. It's where all the lot of the highest level criminals live out there as well as just, you know, people in high society in general. And that afternoon, he was shot was shot at while he was driving on the express. We ended up diverting into a off ramp and pulled into a funeral parlor parking lot had been shot in the leg, but was attacked by matching Porsche sports cars, one black, one red. The shots came from the black car. That was three months ago. And there were arrests made within a couple of days of the attack. And then those two guys that were arrested back in March, they were let go. And now they have been officially indicted as the shooters, as the co-conspirators in the attempted assassination of Leonardo Rizzuto. Their names are Kevin Roche, Brune and Steve. Well, tell me, isn't it Steve Emanuel? I don't just a manual. I thought it was Steve Bartholomew's nickname. I don't know. OK. Well, Bartholomew and Roche Brune. This is the most recent, at least, you know, legal machination of this longstanding mob war up north of the border. Leonardo Rizzuto's you're right. I'm sorry. It is Steve Emanuel's middle name. Yeah. And. Rizzuto is kind of the last man standing in his. He's not only one of the last man standing in the Rizzuto crime family organization, he's one of the last man standing in his actual blood family. Yeah, right. He has lost his his grandfather, his uncle and his brother in the warfare that erupted after his dad was extradited to serve prison time in the United States back in 2009. His dad came home in 2012, lived about a year and then succumbed to a battle of cancer. We kind of talked about it on here. I think Leonardo Rizzuto is like the real life Canadian Michael Corleone. He was not pegged to be a mob boss, even though he was born into a mafia dynasty. He went to law school and. Either was or is a practicing attorney and was just like Michael Corleone in the in the Godfather story had was forced for the sake of keeping the organization that his father had built alive. He was forced to step into the role as boss. And in this case, it looks like, you know, over the last. Decade or so, Leonardo Rizzuto has been forced to do the same thing. I don't think 20 years ago when Leonardo Rizzuto was in his 30s, many people would have predicted that he would in his early 50s would be would be leading this. What's left of this crime family? Yeah, similar to the film, there's this crisis where he feels obligated. But I agree with you. I don't think there was any evidence that prior to that he was being groomed or something to or socialized to step into those to that role. So I don't know about Bartolome. But we know that Rose Brune has direct ties and convictions to this Canadian mafia war that's been raging for the last decade and a half. He was convicted back in 2017 of another attempted assassination of a Montreal mafia figure that was in the Rizzuto crime family. His name was Marco Peezy. And Peezy was very close to the group of guys that took over the family after Vito Rizzuto died. There was like a couple years between Rizzuto's death and when Leonardo Rizzuto took over the family. At first, the family, I believe there was like a like a panel. Then at some point, Skunk Giordano and Saucito were running things. They were killed in the same kind of six or seven weeks in 2016. And a couple either weeks or months after that. Marco Peezy survived an assassination attempt. Kevin Rose Brune, who was just indicted on the Leonardo Rizzuto attempted murder, was convicted of the attempted murder of Marco Peezy and had to go do two or three years in prison. And again, Peezy was connected to Pancho Contrera, the DeMolo brothers and a guy named Tony. I'm going to butcher the name Tony Colaccio, Colaccio Colaccio. And Contrera, they're related to Rizzuto's. Well, and then the Contrera is like another that's not a clan. It's always transatlantic ties to Venezuela, Italy. And has always been aligned with the Rizzuto's. Peezy had been indicted with a lot of these guys. Within the upper ranks of the Rizzuto crime family. So he's a veteran of this war, even though he's only 30, 32 years old. I believe. So, you know, let's unpack this a little bit. I don't want to go too long on this, but this is all we did. A quick hitter episode. And then we did a longer episode. So there's been two episodes where we've talked about this in the last couple of months, where. There's like a war within a war going on right now in Montreal, a former ally of Leonardo Rizzuto. Francesco Del Basso, who goes by the nickname or went by the nickname. Chit was one of Vito Rizzuto's top enforcers, a guy that struck fear everywhere he went for 20, 25 years. And there's news coming out that I might have known, but I didn't know it as much as I know now. The first, there's the belief that Del Basso was behind the attempt. On on Rizzuto and that. I think they can link him to renting the cars, which is really a company that's not smart. The conventional wisdom right now is that these two guys that just got indicted were working on behalf of Del Basso. Del Basso, it turns out, was. Attacked twice. Before the Leonardo Rizzuto. Attempted hit, according to these court records, Del Basso avoided assassination once in November of 22, once of January of 23. He was prevented from leaving the country in the in the days after Rizzuto survived the March 15th attack. And then earlier this month, Del Basso is killed. In the parking lot of his gym in the West Island section of Montreal. So there's quite a bit of drama that has erupted in a drama filled shooting conflict that's been going on now for for almost 15 years. It doesn't look like it was in the end in sight. We've talked on here and I've written about it on gangsterreport.com that there's the belief by investigators that Del Basso was being supported in his efforts to get rid of Leonardo Rizzuto by the Hells Angels. Who had had a long time relationship with Vito Rizzuto. So there's so many moving parts here. And it's kind of emblematic of what's been going on since the 2000s. If you look at the time frame, I mean, this is we admit this is speculative or trying to decode because the story is still unfolding. But if you look at the time frame, it seems like if Del Basso was behind the Rizzuto hit, which I believe seems like he was that that may have been more of a defensive yeah, measure on his part. Then we were initially like a coup d'etat kind of like he was trying to take over. But but now that we know that there were those two other attempts on his life, this might have been retaliation in a way. If kill the guy that's trying to kill you, right? Get him first before he gets you. Right. And I think there is. Some reporting right now in Montreal, I don't want to take credit for it. That is saying that. Del Basso, who used to be close, not just with Vito Rizzuto, but was very close to Leonardo Rizzuto for the same exact age. They're both fifty three or Del Basso was fifty three. I was told by people that are close to situation that back in the nineties when. When when Rizzuto was just a mafia prince and wasn't really a mobster, that Vito Rizzuto trusted to Del Basso to bodyguard his kids and watch their backs and that when Del Basso came out of prison after doing time for the Rizzuto crime family. According to this new reporting, the people that were leading the crime family at that time, I'm not sure where Leonardo Rizzuto played in this. Blocked his return, wouldn't give him back his rackets. It seems like they tried to marginalize. Right, which. If you're just doing the math in your head, probably played a role in things to the reaching a boiling point in the last six months. Well, when he was on the streets, it sounds like he had a lot of action with gambling, extortion, loan sharking. And so when he gets out of prison, he expects to earn again. And it seems like he was being marginalized. And it seems like, again, we're decoding, things are unfolding that he was trying to then carve out his own space independent of the Rizzuto organization and that that didn't go over well with the Rizzuto. And he was facing a case when he died for extorting his priest. I mean, I didn't misspeak there. His wife had given to the church or maybe she hadn't, according to Chet Del Basso last fall, fall of 22, you went to the priest of his church and said, you know, my wife had given money in the collection plate last Sunday and she didn't mean to give that money. It was a mistake. And you better give me back the money that she gave and oh, you can't give it back to me. So I'm going to come and I'm going to charge your points and every week I'm going to come collect money. This is his own church, his own Monsignor of that. So, you know, last thing I'll say, and then we'll sign off and we'll we'll keep in tabs on the situation. What I found interesting, and if you're reading between the lines here, Rose Brune and Bartholomee have their attorneys push off their pleas. And this wasn't a situation where they were. If they had just been arrested and they didn't know they were being investigated or they didn't know that they were. The top targets in this case and they were picked up on Monday and they went in front of a judge to plea a couple hours after their arrest. It would make sense to me that their attorneys would have to say, you know, listen, we got to see what's going on. But these two alleged assailants have known that they've been the target of law enforcement since March. So your ducks have already been in a row, if you know, conventional wisdom. What do you have to think about? Again, I'm speculating. I'm not saying that Rose Brune and Bartholomee are considering cooperating, but it's suspicious to me that they wouldn't just plead not guilty when they're hauled in in front of a judge after three months of an investigation. Well, also, just something at the macro level with the criminal justice system in Canada, attempted murder. You got to get a slap on the wrist anyhow. So I don't I don't know what look of the attempted murder that Rose Brune cop to back in 17 he was out by 2020. Right. So we'll keep tabs on it for you. But two arrests have been made in Montreal this week. Kevin Rose Brune and Steve Bartolomee have been charged in the Leonardo Rizzuto attempted assassination for March two thousand twenty three for O.G. 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