Cleaning up blatant corruption in Montreal and cities in province

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This has been going on for quite a while and I wonder if this is not part of a worlwide clean up that has started.

In different cities in the province of Quebec, there was very ingrained corruption working like this:
All repairs and construction contracts are being revised:

2-3% of all contracts value $ in the cities going to the mafia
2-3% of all contracts value $ going to some cities administrators and engineers making the public appeals for contracts - some had been intimidated by the mafia, death treats etc, others have only been paid off by the mafia.

Meanwhile, taxes were increasing while the cost of public work was 30% higher in Montreal when compared to elsewhere.

The cities and neighboroods in each city were divided between different mafiosi groups for construction contracts while non mafiosi groups could never get the main well paying contracts. Additional costs were bargained in advance with brown envelopes to cities administrators in order to be accepted.

The Quebec government has had a death ear when the cities were asking for help.

The ministry of Transport of the province would be involved as well.

Some are talking of other fields were corruption may still happen as well in contracts handling.

An inquest is going on where main witnesses that have been caught and would be sued are giving up names in order to avoid jail terms. Some of these witnesses are city administrators, others are mafia people or their close friends.

Mayor Vaillancourt of Laval (a city of more than 1 million inhabitants) would have received direct bribes

In Montreal, the mayor would not have received bribes but his main right hand helper would have.

So tonight, the Mayor of Montreal just quit,

not being able to run the city anylonger because he has lost the trust of the people, not having been able to stop the corruption.

Newspapers titles:

Embattled Montreal mayor may resign after corruption inquiry testimony claims he knew about illegal financing

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11/05/embattled-montreal-mayor-could-resign-after-corruption-inquiry-testimony-claims-he-knew-about-illegal-financing/

Montreal suspends engineer following corruption allegations

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/11/05/gilles-vezina-engineer-suspended.html


Montreal firms raided by anti-corruption squad handed contracts

City of Laval continues to award contracts ahead of anti-corruption bill's passage

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/11/02/construction-laval-anti-corruption-raids.html

Quebec corruption probe widens to PM's pick for port job

Former Montreal city manager Robert Abdallah accused of favouring certain supply companies

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/10/02/charbonneau-commission-zambito-abdallah-corruption.html


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4P4p_ANYiI

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And there is so much more to do! It is not even funny.

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This is just the beginnning, yesterday Laval citizen (Laval is a large city on the north shore of Montreal) have demanded the demission of the mayor who would be involved in acceptng brown envelopes.

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Quitting speech of Montreal mayor in English


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYWYI7dZU1I

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Quitting speech of Montreal mayor in English


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYWYI7dZU1I

... All that wasted energy and meanwhile the infrastructure us falling apart in this city.

I hope the commission calls M. Tremblay to testify.

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i hope too. As well as mayor Vaillancourt from Laval. I have seen the latter buying some fish last week end in Montreal as well as the commissionner Charbonneau having her morning run in the mountain (hill for Europeans) in the center of the city, while I was in a restaurant where cell are not accessible, just not tone or line. So you can't phone or send information out.

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Demission of the mayor of Laval, mister Vaillancourt, because of fraud accusations, demission of the right arm of the ex Montreal mayor, Michael Applebaum, saying he does not get along the the city commitee responsible for decision making.

The saga is going on.

I hope the clean up will be thorough.

[Hervé]

From : http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/montreal-man-with-mafia-ties-killed-in-front-of-his-home/article4913822/

Montreal man with Mafia ties, Joe Di Maulo, killed in front of his home
Les Perreaux
Montreal — The Globe and Mail
PublishedMonday, Nov. 05 2012, 8:43 AM EST
Last updatedTuesday, Nov. 06 2012, 8:29 AM EST

The front-yard execution of a skilled Mafia diplomat who survived decades in the top echelons of the Montreal mob may mark the end of a war - or it may be the start of the final battle for control.

Giuseppe “Joe” Di Maulo, who came up in the mob in the 1960s, survived the purge of his Calabrian bosses in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and hung on as most of the Rizzuto clan was jailed or killed through the 2000s, was shot dead in his driveway Sunday evening. Mr. Di Maulo’s body was left to be discovered by his wife outside their home in Blainville, a bedroom community 45 minutes north of Montreal. He was 72.

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The death of a man who built a career sliding easily among the top ranks of the Calabrian and Sicilian regimes that have long ruled Canada’s mob comes within a month of the return to Montreal of Vito Rizzuto, the last don of the high-profile family that most recently ruled the city.

Mr. Rizzuto was released last month after serving a five-year prison term in the United States. In his absence, his father and a son (both known as Nick Rizzuto) were murdered and most of his top associates were gunned down or disappeared. Mr. Di Maulo’s death also occurred as the Rizzuto infiltration into the construction business faces a new level of public scrutiny in the Charbonneau corruption inquiry.

The killing led quickly to two preferred theories among Quebec’s organized crime experts, and Mr. Rizzuto is at the centre of both: The Montreal godfather is either emphatically trying to regain control of his territory, or having authority exercised upon him.

“Vito Rizzuto gets out, and this immediately happens. If it’s a coincidence, it would be a very strange one,” said Pierre de Champlain, a former RCMP intelligence analyst and author. “[Di Maulo] was an iconic figure among the Mafia in Montreal, and he was legendary for his discretion. He partly gained prestige and influence because his name so rarely came up.”

Mr. Di Maulo is described as being “blessed with an undeniable talent for diplomacy” in Mafia Inc., the latest, authoritative book on the Montreal mob, and his complicated history makes it difficult to be certain if he died a Rizzuto enemy, or friend.

In the 1970s, the rising Sicilian clan went to war against the Calabrian Catronis and eliminated a brash new-generation leader, Paolo Violi. Mr. Di Maulo made it from the Catronis to Mr. Violi and his brothers, only to land as a trusted lieutenant of the Rizzutos.

Most recently, he was linked to a failed attempt to consolidate control with Salvatore “The Ironworker” Montagna and Raynald Desjardins, one of the rare francophone Quebeckers to rise in the mob ranks. The alliance evidently fell apart. Mr. Montagna was gunned down last year, and Mr. Desjardins (Mr. Di Maulo’s brother-in-law) awaits trial accused of the murder.

As RCMP mob intelligence analyst Linda Féquière noted in her recent testimony at the Charbonneau commission, Mr. Di Maulo was always most closely identified as a member of the Cotroni-Violi Calabrian wing of the mob.

Mr. Di Maulo died much as former godfather Nicolo Rizzuto did exactly two years ago: at home, by bullet, with his wife nearby to tend to the body. It’s unusually intimate for mobsters, who generally try to keep such business away from wives and children.

But echoes of the method go back to the last war, in 1980, when Rocco Violi was shot through a window by high-powered rifle while sitting at the dinner table with his family. Mr. Violi’s wives and children moved to Hamilton, where they lived under the protection of a Calbrian mob family, according to André Cédilot and André Noël, the authors of Mafia Inc.

Every member of the Rizzuto organization who was picked up for questioning in the Violi murders from more than 30 years ago has now been killed – most of them in the past three years, Mr. de Champlain said.

“I was never a fan of the revenge theory, but as time passes it starts to seem increasingly possible that revenge is behind this,” Mr. de Champlain said. “And you know what they say about revenge being best served cold.”

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Serious business going on in Montreal!