 Welcome into the original gangsters podcast. I am your host Scott Bernstein. This is a quick hitter episode that I want to talk about breaking news out of Canada and the continuing drama that's going out on up there with the risotto mafia as well as the hell's angels and the dovetailing between those two organizations. Major Montreal Hell's Angels shot caller Robert Teflon Rob Barletta had his mansion burned down last week. I think it was in the neighborhood called Saint Jerome and a suburb of Montreal. He has been kind of a nomadic presence in Canadian Hell's Angels politics over the last 20 years and was summoned to Montreal in the last handful of years to ramp up you know the power base in Montreal with Marty Robert who's the president of the Montreal Hell's Angels and Barletta was brought there personally by Marty. Investigators right now are thinking that this could have been an attack on Barletta by the risotto mob and continuing fallout from the you know this 2023 tit for tat it started with the attempted assassination of risotto mob don Leonardo risotto reputed mob mob don Leonardo risotto and continued into the summer with the June 5th assassination of Francesco chit del basso and the the what what informants are telling the RCMP right now is that initially chit del basso was in a internal dispute within the risottos with Leonardo who was his former friend ally he had once been a bodyguard for Leonardo had worked for veto risotto Leonardo's dad chit had who was the most powerful mafia done canada's ever seen was in a collector in a bookie loan shark and in the last 10 years since veto died it appears that a chit and Leonardo fell out more recently there were some attempts on del basso's life in late 22 maybe early 23 and then there was an attempt made investigators believe it it came from del basso with backing from the Hells Angels to kill Leonardo risotto now we're I'm being told I think investigators are being told that the Hells Angels are doing an about face wanting to maintain their long-standing ties to the risotto mob going you know back to the veto risotto days and that they might have killed chit del basso as a way to make things right after backing his power play marty robert was seen meeting with chit del basso minutes before del basso was gunned down in the parking lot of the monster gym in west island in June 5th now both marty robert and teflon rob barletta were at chit del basso's funeral but both from what I'm being told are being investigated for possibly playing a role versus their their their suspects persons of interest in the del basso murder investigation rob barletta again just to kind of give a little background on him has only been in montreal for a couple years and started his career in toronto as a Hells Angel was dispatched to london ontario to take over or I should say to found he founded the london london Hells Angels chapter and became the president of the london london Hells Angels chapter and then he eventually went to niagra became the boss of the niagra uh Hells Angels and then ended up in montreal so you know kind of called by uh marty robert and and the powers that be in the Hells Angels to bring reinforcements for what was looked at as a possible war with the rizudos uh within the bigger canadian mafia war and that's where we stand right now rob barletta had his mansion burned down last week I guess it was the third time that he has survived a arson attack uh I was as well as a number of attempts on his life that's how he's gotten the nickname teflon and moved to montreal from london he got his I think he got a strip club liquor license revoked uh ran a strip club in london called uh like flesh gordon's like flash gordon flesh gordon's um but now he's in montreal uh he's become somewhat of a right hand man to marty robert you know there's a lot of this story left to be written but the attack on on barletta um is major news and we'll we'll keep updated uh keep you updated on it and we'll see what happens out in montreal going forward for og pod i'm scott bernstein out