 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm Scott Bernstein. Right now we're going to do a quick hitter filling everybody in on what's going on up in the Great White North. The assassination of Greg Picasso. Willie a couple weeks ago has got everyone up there in a stir. You know the latest body to drop in this mafia war, underworld conflict that's been going on well over a decade. And that's like you have all these mini wars within a war. I wouldn't even call them battles. I mean, since you know the late 2000s you have these mini wars that break out within the bigger war. And the last year, year and a half that looks like the bodies that have Chit Del Basso, the Frank Francesco Chit Del Basso the mafia lieutenant was killed back in June. And now Greg Picasso Willie it looks like this is now the most elated slice of this pitting. The Ruzudo crime family against the Hell's Angels it appears. Former allies have now turned enemies. So I want to give an update on what I found out. First off, what hasn't been reported in the mainstream press is that Greg Willie was being stalked and intimidated. Really from mid 2022. He had warnings from the RCMP that murder contracts were on his head. Willie is a fascinating figure in the history of the North American underworld. I let a Haitian gang, a street gang in Montreal as a teenager and gain the respect of both the Hell's Angels in Mambouche, who was the godfather of the Hell's Angels in the 90s and then Vito Ruzudo and the Italian Sicilian mafia in Montreal. They both took a liking to him and trusted him and he was a goal between he became a member of a biker game known as the Rockers which was a support club for Mambouche and the Hell's Angels and their big biker war against the rock machine and the banditos in the 90s and early 2000s. He was allied with the Ruzudos and quite a few criminal affairs. He was the consummate mob politician. It seems like he might have miscalculated in some of that politicking here. We know that he was also one of the first black, if not the first black fully patch member of the Hell's Angels so his loyalty in theory should have ultimately resided with the Hell's Angels but from what I'm hearing that was one of the big reasons that he was murdered. Is that he wasn't showing the loyalty to the Hell's Angels and guys like Marty Robert right now was the most powerful biker in Ontario. He's the modern day Mambouche, the leader of the Quebec Hell's Angels and he is him and Leonardo Ruzudo, Vito Ruzudo's son and successor are the main kind of puppeteers here. They appear to be on the same team at some points in this and then trying to kill each other in other points of it which is difficult to keep up with all the machinations and changing in relationships and who's allied with who. But Greg Woolley, they called him Picasso. He was nicknamed by by Mambouche and Vito Ruzudo because they said he turned crime into an art form. So what's being reported in the Montreal press over the last couple weeks is that all of this violence over the last year is tied to a fight between the Hell's Angels and the Ruzudos over sports gambling and that a lot of this is linked to attempts on it kind of all started, the acrimony all started in 2022. Chit Del Basso, who was a former Ruzudo lieutenant that had jumped in bed with the Hell's Angels was going to try to kill the Ruzudos. He was averted some assassination attempts then him and allegedly the Hell's Angels try to kill Leonardo Ruzudo in March they fail at that at that point. Hell's Angels do an about face and it looks like they had then Chit Del Basso killed in June in Montreal. Del Basso was murdered after going to a meeting with Marty Robert at a health fitness center on West Island. So from what I'm being told, the attack on Woolley came from the Hell's Angels came from his own people. And that they have been intimidating him over the last year to stop being so, I guess, in cahoots with the Italians in their running of this sportsbook and who's going to take complete control over it. They managed to coexist in all the major sports gambling in Quebec and parts of Ontario throughout the 2000s. Greg Woolley was one of the people that made the alliance. When the Ruzuda Empire started to crumble, when Vito Ruzudo had to go off to prison and serve some prison time, and the Ruzudos needed the Hell's Angels more than ever. It was Greg Woolley that arranged a meeting in a cemetery in like a mausoleum where the Hell's Angels and the Ruzudos came together and formed a greater alliance than they had already had. Again, that's all falling apart. But Greg Woolley had his house in suburban Montreal shot up, had it had multiple cocktails thrown at his residence. This has all happened in the last year. There was some form of confrontation at a biker rally I hear back in the summer where the Hell's Angels in a show of force was telling Greg Woolley that he better get on board with them and told the line with the Angels. And stopped working with the Ruzudos, stopped doing business with them and I guess give up the part of the sports book that he had taken control of or ran with the Ruzudos. He wasn't a man that was easily intimidated and he was gunned down in November going to his doctor's office, getting out of his Lamborghini. So I just wanted to report that, A, this is something that looked like it was in the making for the last year just as Chit Del Baso was coming under attack in 2022 it looks like Greg Woolley was as well. And that this appears to, again, just like with Del Baso, the Del Baso assassination come. It appears to be coming from the Hell's Angels and Marty Robert and his intention of consolidating all the rackets in Montreal, sports gambling, loan sharking, drugs, labor racketeering under his banner. And the one thing that he did about a year ago that people are pointing to about two years ago was bring Teflon Rob Barletta over from London, Ontario, and brought him in to work with in the construction rackets with the Italians as well as sports gambling which I guess he is known as an expert in. And Barletta has been one of the people with Marty Robert that has been getting people online. They attended Chit Del Baso's funeral together. We shall see what happens but those are the two things I wanted to report. I'll keep you updated on what's going on up in the Great White North with this ever-evolving mafia war, Greg Woolley, Picasso, the latest casualty. Scott Bernstein, OG Pod, out.