 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick hitter edition breaking news up in Canada two big headlines over the last couple of days here in the first week of September 2023. First you had the arrests of two people related to one of the mob war murders that's uh you know the bodies that have been dropping in the great white north over the last 12 to 15 years. Um 2020 murder of a Hamilton Ontario mob associate Giorgio Barresi who was tied to the Musetanos and uh that crew in Hamilton uh he was murdered in the spring of 2020 in his driveway in that stony creek section. Hamilton he had been arrested with Fat Pat Musetano back in the 2000s or late 90s on a bookmaking case but had kept his nose clean in terms of law enforcement um in in the decade or so uh prior to his murder. Investigators believe the murder is tied to this epic biblical Canadian mob war that's been raging since the late 2000s. Two arrests this week of Toronto residents that are charged with the murder of Barresi guy named Jamal Kemen and another guy named Sorosa Mota both from Toronto and are now facing first degree homicide charges in relation to the Barresi murder that came down this week and then another body dropped. This one in the Dominican Republic Giuseppe Lopez who is a affiliate relative of Serifino Oliveirio who goes by the alias Sergio Lopez and Oliveirio is a kind of a sub runs kind of a sub unit of the Rizzuto crime family in northern Montreal a lot of real estate development companies restaurants bars and according to RCMP intelligence report back when Vito Rizzuto was the godfather uh in the 90s and 2000s he used to use the Lopez crew or the Oliveirio crew to launder uh drug and gambling proceeds but Serifino himself uh Oliveirio averted an assassination attempt a couple years ago but it looks like either his brother or his cousin Giuseppe Lopez uh was caught in the crosshairs of this ongoing conflict and was killed in the Dominican Republic uh there have been a number of murders that are now kind of the body counts hit the triple digits at this point a number of those murders have taken place outside the the borders of Canada um Mexico Italy Sicily now the Dominican Republic uh so all it's been Vito Rizzuto left Canada to go serve time in an American prison in 2009 that's when you know the the roof caved in um so it's been 14 years and bodies are still dropping no end in sight so an arrest in the Giorgio Barresti murder that is tied to the Ontario um part of this war started in Montreal and then bled over into Ontario first in Toronto and then to Hamilton where the Musetano brothers had been in charge for about 20 years had taken power uh by force by killing Johnny Papalia Johnny Pops in 1997 as pretty young men that went to prison came out and uh were the overlords there but as the mob war in Montreal spread the Musetanos were you know caught in the middle of it because Vito Rizzuto had been one of their backers and co-signers uh he died in 2013 of an aggressive form of cancer after coming back to Canada after being in prison for for for three years and it left the Musetanos exposed both the Big Ang and Fat Pat uh were murdered between 2017 and 2020 Fat Pat who was close to Giorgio Barresti was murdered about three months or four months after Barresti Barresti died in or was killed in March of 2020 and Fat Pat uh was killed in a Burlington Ontario uh strip mall in in June of 2000 so we're keeping tabs on what's going on in Canada uh the day to day warfare uh is in the headlines and we're keeping up with it check back at either GangsterReport.com or check back at the original Gangster's podcast for all the most breaking news on what's going up in the Great White North for Benny behind the glass and for Jimmy who'll be back in a long term uh long-form podcast later this week I am Scott Bernstein, OGPod out