Lecture 9

Question 1

What was Bill-C-95?

Answer 1

Contained a package of anti-gang measures that target criminal gang activity. The bill makes it an indictable offence for someone to knowingly participate in a criminal organization

Question 2

what did Robert Blakey believe?

Answer 2

you cannot just target individuals. You must go after the organization since the organization itself allows crime to perpetuate.

Question 3

What was section 467.1 CC?

Answer 3

This defines organized crime. Criminal organization means a group that

1. composed of 3 or more persons in our outside of Canada
2. has in its activities the commission or facilitation of one or more serious offences that if committed results in some material benefit. A serious offence means an indictable offence for which punishment is 5+ years.

Question 4

Explain the series Bad Blood

Answer 4

The first season is a dramatization of the rise and fall of the real-life Rizzuto crime family, a Montreal-based organized crime family, and is based on the 2015 book Business or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto’s Last War by Antonio Nicaso and Peter Edwards

Question 5

true or false, In the early 2000s, Vito Rizzuto is the boss of a crime family seeking to bring peace to Montreal’s criminal world.

Answer 5

true

Question 6

true or false, Vito succeeds in bringing peace but is later arrested for murders he had previously committed. 1981.

Answer 6

true - this marked the crumble of his empire

Question 7

what occurred after Vito was imprisoned?

Answer 7

While in prison, Vito’s adversaries murder his son Nico and Vito’s father Nicolo Rizzuto, while the family was entrusted to his right-hand man Declan Gardiner

Question 8

Who was Sal Montaga?

Answer 8

the acting boss of the Bonanno family in NY and the branch leader in the Bronx for the Mafia. He is the main antagonist of the Rizzuto family

Question 9

What occured in 2012?

Answer 9

Vito is released in 2012, but he shuns Declan for the deaths in his family that occurred under his watch. Vito later forgives him as he and Declan set out on a path of revenge against anyone who ever crossed the Rizzuto family.

Question 10

t or f, Declan had felt betrayed and had secretly switched his allegiance to Sal before double-crossing and killing Sal. He also fatally poisons Vito, leaving himself as Montreal’s drug kingpin.

Answer 10

t

Question 11

there were 5 families in NY that ran the drug trade. The Bonanno family was one. Who was sometimes referred to as the 6th family?

Answer 11

The Rizzuto family