 Welcome into the original gangsters podcast another quick hitter edition I'm your host Scott Bernstein. Today I want to give some updates on the murder investigation into the Montreal Mafia leader Francesco Chit Del Basso's gangland slain back in June. We have some information that's come in, shout out to Paul Cherry and the National Post and what they've done in some of their reporting, but it's come out now that Chit Del Basso was on his way to meet the Hell's Angels at the Monster Gym in West Island part of Montreal the afternoon that he was killed in June 2023. We had been reporting here at original gangsters podcast as well as at the gangster report that Chit Del Basso's palace coup earlier this year where he tried to take out allegedly try to take out Rizzuto crime family godfather Leonardo Rizzuto was a power play backed by the Hell's Angels. We know that the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club has been deeply interwoven into the history of the Montreal Mafia dating back to the 70s and 80s. Vito Rizzuto Leonardo's father cemented a lot of those ties even further during his reign and what we heard initially was that the Hell's Angels were back in Chit Del Basso's play when it fell flat and Rizzuto avoided assassination in that highway shooting back in March. We've had two guys arrested in that and we now believe that the Hell's Angels who had backed that play were now trying to make amends with the Rizzuto's and it seems like killed Chit Del Basso as a way to make things copacetic again that they made a mistake. We've heard that the order might have came in from across the border in America that the bosses in New York and out in California were upset with the optics, how it looked that the Hell's Angels looked to be supporting an attempt to an insurgent, an attempt to oust the Rizzuto's finally from the throne after a dozen years of warfare over in Canada, attacking the Rizzuto crime family, but it's now come out conclusively that Chit Del Basso who had been really laying low in the aftermath of that failed assassination attempt on Leo Rizzuto and would only have come out and got out into the open to be murdered, he would have only trusted a very few people at this point and it seems like one of those people was a Hell's Angel that drew him out into the open and he was killed in the parking lot of the Monster Gym going to meet a member of the Hell's Angels and this further I think shows us this nexus point between bikers and mobsters where they can benefit from each other and then there's always this kind of changing loyalties this is happening in real time it looked like Chit Del Basso had gotten the Angels and particularly Marty Robert who's the kind of the on the marquee right now for the Montreal Hell's Angels he's the guy that seems to have the most power over there and he knew a lot of the attendance he knew Chit Del Basso and it seems like he wanted to again we don't know this for sure but it seems like Marty Robert was at the forefront of the decision making I think I'm possibly on both fronts we don't know I'm just what I'm hearing from from my sources in law enforcement over there I know that Marty Robert and the Hell's Angels are under investigation for other things and this could possibly play into that investigation we could have dug tailing investigations so I just wanted to report that you know we now know it's not just speculation that the Hell's Angels played a role in this it seems like the investigators the the RCMP seems to have now nailed down the fact that Del Basso was going to meet the Hell's Angels the afternoon he was killed in June 2023 we'll keep you updated I just wanted to drop that in there and I'll see you next week Scott Bernstein OG pot