 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick hitter edition going right back up to the great white north Big bust in LA last week federal grand jury indicted a Montreal mafia figure known as Roberto Scoppa Bobby Scoppa from the infamous Scoppa brothers Is the number one defendant in operation dead hand that dropped out of a federal court in Los Angeles? Last week in the court filings we see some connections between Scoppa and are one of our favorite people to cover here at the og pod one of the most consequential crime lords in the 21st century a guy that His profile and ambition seemed to get bigger Every minute Marty Robert the top Hell's Angels shot caller in Quebec Montreal captor boss. It looks like according to those court filings Marty Robert and Bobby Scoppa traveled to Columbia together down in South America I Stated a resort in Cartagena Kind of a beach town resort town in Columbia in the first two weeks of January 2019 Scoppa has addressed this in the media a couple of years ago Said that it was Happen, you know just kind of happenstance and wasn't coordinated They both happen to be At this resort with their families and bumped into each other and it was nothing more than a coincidence When I'm hearing I know what authorities are hearing in in Canada and what's being implied in the court filings Is that they were there, you know scouting? securing cultivating narcotics Wholesale narcotics connections And it's interesting when you start to you know kind of peel the layers back and you look for the You know the story within a story or game within the game you start looking at the timelines here We all know that at this moment in 2024 Marty Robert is on the warpath and Staging a attempted hostile takeover of the rizudo mob now the Sicilian mafia in Canada his former allies the Hell's Angels and the rizudos work together for 30 plus years in Tandem and at some point in the last couple years if not going further back to possibly 2019 the relationship started to fray and by late 2022 early 2023 It broke open into violence and now we have both camps kind of in bunker mode. There have been a number of murders attempted murders and The scoppers just like Marty Robert, not necessarily at the time But you know the scoppers were a part of the rizudo organization and then as that organization began to Crater from within when Vita rizudo got extradited to the United States to serve as prison term And then eventually came home Passed away in 2013 2014. It looks like the scoppers who represent the Calabrian wing of that group or did It looks like Andrew Scoppa took somewhat of a leadership role acting street boss type role in 2014 and then According to sources and government documents was pushed out shortly thereafter and then declared war on the rizudos his former Organization is his former tenants and whatnot and I've had a hit list and they killed the Vita rizudos two successors sauce Solicito and Skunked your Dono which led to the current boss Leonardo rizudo Vito's son taking power and He's at the you know other side of this thing against Marty and It doesn't it I should say it makes sense If Marty knew back then that things had started to fracture and it looks like from reporting that That's when when the chinks in the armor and that alliance that had been there for three decades really started to show that you know your Your enemies enemy is your friend so it It's interesting to see again when you put it in a timeline Marty with this with one of the Scoppa brothers And this is before Andrew and Salvatore are murdered in subsequent months after that trip to Columbia But that Marty is in Columbia with a member of the Scoppa crew It looks like he was Forseen this possible fallout with with the rizudo clan and but still needed that European Italian mafia connection for the Hells Angels drug activities So just something to keep an eye on for Everybody knows Marty robert is public enemy number one in Canada doesn't seem to bother him. He's cool as a cucumber Leonardo rizudo on the other hand. We're told is You know, he's laying real low and has been in you know Kind of semi-hiding for the last five or six months But Bobby Scoppa who right now is the lead defendant in operation Deadhand and Marty robert took a trip to Cartagena, Colombia in January of 2019 to allegedly secure a drug connection I'll I'll bring it everything that's going down in Canada and the Marty robert mafia Hells Angels war were always on top of it here at OG pod as well as Gangster report our companion web magazine. Please always like subscribe share OG pod on all your socials spread the word We'll be back with another long-form edition soon and we'll always have these quick hitters rolling out Scott Bernstein OG pod