How The Mafia CONQUERED Montreal | The Rizzuto Family

NSTLKIA presents 'The Crime Capital,' our newest documentary taking a deep dive into the brutal and bloody rise of Montreal's Rizzuto crime family, and how one Sicilian immigrant would change the city for good.
This story is a unique one, as, unlike our other stories, it takes a look at the Montreal mob today both yesterday, and today.
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OST: • The Crime Capital OST
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CHAPTERS:
Chapter 1: 1:16
Chapter 2: 8:17
Chapter 3: 17:26
Chapter 4: 27:43
Chapter 5: 31:35
Chapter 6: 38:37
Chapter 7: 45:20
Chapter 8: 50:27
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[@TheNSTLKIAChannel]

Full OST: kzbin.info/aero/PLyGaZ7bo22w5ewXOY0-qH9oTNqsw-BPPL

[@CarcPazu]

Excellent documentary almost rendered unwatchable by mispronunciation of Montreal. With all the research required to achieve this documentary, one would think pronouncing Montreal the right way would a top priority… Apparently not.

[@jamesstanley4214]

​@@CarcPazu0000😊000009😊999

[@pasqualezambito5835]

@@CarcPazupo’

[@garyoak4175]

1:54 "Le Place Royal" Completely wrong. La Place Royale was just a spot where fur trading happened in the old port. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointe-%C3%A0-Calli%C3%A8re_Museum This is exactly where it was. Never was the name of the city/village/island. They called it Ville Marie (Maryville) Also, it's "La" Place Royal not "Le" Place Royal. Makes me question the validity of anything else you're going to say... we're 2minutes in and you're wildly incorrect about something thats publicly available...

[@garyoak4175]

Also yeah, either say "Mon" "Rey" "al" or say "Montreal" but dont start mixing parts of one with the other.@@CarcPazu @TheNSTLKIAChannel

[@appolop8273]

CORRECTION: at 35:39, The Consenza Club is in St'Leonard, not in St.Jerome. And at 50:06, Little Italy, is not in downtown Montreal, its in borough of Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie. All in all, a top-notch video. Bravo!

[@johnnyraider]

WHO CARES? GO BACK.😊😊😊😊😊

[@Mp-re1wj]

How montreal got its awful infrastructure we have to deal with everyday while paying high taxes. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@BostonsF1nest]

Every old city has an awful infrastructure and high taxes

[@nicodemodagrigento8017]

Taxes Schmaxes, It’s not about to change. People are busy, not knowing what they’re doing, or giving money for.

[@nagone11]

Gorgeous work here, comprehensive and complete with facts. We’ll done ✔️

[@whitewater1250]

Great job on this documentary

[@salvadoravalos9950]

Thoroughly story telling. Great job.

[@rleeboston33]

This is quality. Nicely done. Subbed

[@am7442]

That was a great documentary. Well put together and very interesting.

[@SnowdoniaSkies]

Great video thanks for posting

[@WalksandAll]

Incredible work. Well done!!

[@doaaabousharbin9287]

Wow. Amazing video as usual 👍🏻

[@lukasrobinson4077]

This is Golden! Great work!

[@coreysayers944]

Really well done 👏🏼

[@BKBeatsChannel]

Great documentary most descriptive ive found on Canadian Mob. Bless 👍

[@gdl357g]

Fantastic video. Thank you for the great narrating job.

[@thereald-4795]

Great vid

[@markkennedy5335]

Well done. That was excellent

[@scottaldridge3991]

Great documentary 👍

[@mrscarface6438]

The café conzensa is not in st Jerome but st Leonard

[@lionking6663]

😂

[@OniFaced]

Say WHAT👀

[@thereald-4795]

Really

[@mrscarface6438]

@@thereald-4795 yes , st Jerome is 40 mins north of Montreal ( French people live there ) st Leonard is a mostly Italian suburb in the east side of Montreal ( in the city itself )

[@tonyc7090]

@@mrscarface6438 exactly! And we say St Leo or St LEOnard, not St Lenard. Also it's Mon tree all, not Mount reel. Lol

[@Tonsoffun322]

This was really good 🤘

[@marcoallin]

insane great job

[@Irishslag]

This is the most in depth consideration in regards to montreal criminality. You know a lot.

[@duane-vw9nh]

Great investigative work excellent documentary

[@mackreed2097]

Great Video 👍

[@MikeHannon-jp6po]

I think this Documentary was very interesting and so well done, wish there was more, but we'll have to just WAIT!!! ..BADA BING!!

[@liamwitts3319]

Great documentary one of the best ive ever seen on Montreal Mafia

[@Canadian_Skeptical]

Well done.

[@R4lee444]

A+ job... thank you.

[@jmarley3839]

This is a really, really good documentary!! Great job

[@TallShort]

Well done

[@JayS64]

Great job! I didn't know much about Mafia in Canada and it's connection with the American Mafia, but thanks to you, I do now

[@bobbywomack8262]

Most of the heroin from the French connection came through Canada. Dating back to the 50s the pipeline was Canada.

[@FrankieDaix1978]

Thank you

[@gregoryneill1234]

Very interesting video.A minor complaint Montreal is pronounced Mon-tree-all. As a native Montrealer it became very distracting after awhile.

[@evasive5017]

Omg yes so distracting. 😬 Took me out of the video every time.

[@CalmingMelodies1]

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[@Ptitnain2]

It's a French word... You shouldn't pronounce the "t".

[@daveblanco8271]

More like Mun-tree-all

[@starrynight8903]

In english perhaps, but it's actually pronounced Monréal in french. The "t" is silent. Comes from the word "mont", if you will, in which you also forget the "t". Sounds like they pronounced a mix of both, or might just be the accent.

[@tomz5704]

Glass was shot to death 27 times, dude was worth 3 cats

[@MyMixtapez970]

Googled Sixth Family and it brought me here

[@altt-check1-2]

Brilliant work on this documentary… really enjoyed it. My question is , who are the factions fighting for control over Montreal ? Clearly the rizuttos are holding on. But there is clearly a power struggle !

[@j-fb4596]

Hell's Angels currently control all of Quebec drug trade while the mafia has an internal power struggle between their own crews , they work with the Hell's Angels and street gangs, so it's basically a power struggle between different mafia crews.

[@MrShanew17]

Great video my friend keep them coming.

[@514noah]

Love this video! Please Make more Montreal crime content, like about the hells angels or the other gangs we have !!

[@TheNSTLKIAChannel]

Hell's Angels are 100% on my list 👍

[@Madoobe87]

​@@TheNSTLKIAChannelI would love see that part

[@vonvanhoolandt4483]

Well it’s obvious that comments made that they would like to see stories about the hells angels well the 81’s wouldn’t be a pimple on the ass of “Our Thing “

[@dozee514mtl]

​@@TheNSTLKIAChannelthe irish mob, the west end gang is a great story also

[@k1sm3ttt]

im just researching all of these mob stories and it led back to montreal...i was burned out of my apt and then the ha associates who we lived down the street from for 3 decades decided to have their nrp pal forge my foia due to their paranoia

[@Byzantios1]

I can watch these for hours on end. Being from Montreal, the places, faces and names are so familiar. Great work friend.

[@danielgould2938]

Nice

Mun-tree-all. Mun-tree-all. Great video!

[@MachTruck]

I gotta say this is a work of art pal

[@marioforget2773]

Excellent documentaire. Très bien documenté et les événements mentionnés, décrit avec exactitude sauf le meurtre de Blass.

[@garyoak4175]

T'es buzzer c'est un bon ramassi de ouï-dires

[@gk.spinoza]

Excellent Canadian Mob documentary!

[@Rioitaly12345]

You did you’re homework great video seriously

[@nickiewilson9134]

My father's East Ender school buddy's and later a truck driver for The Palmer Brother's Transport Company, were involved with the Montreal Mafia in the 60's,70'80's. There was three books written The Biggest Herion Connectin In Canada, The Polynesia Excursions all taken place at the Kon Tiki Lounge at the Waldorf Astoria on Hastings Steet,DTES Vancouver. Freddy Ford was car bomb,he was in VGH,two Brother's climbed to the 5th floor,a Xray Tech i worked with told me she walked in on them trying to finish the job.They sent a guy for a job,he was back to the Hotel shortly, the little man with polio beat the crap out of him,he kept a pipe and bat at his door. Raymond the oldest escaped to Australia for 10 yrs,in 81 he was shot in New Westminster Court House stairs. Doug escaped from Agassiz and was found 6 yrs later at a L.A.Golf course,and Donny the youngest not too involved died of cancer in 80. Many of children have shared story's growing up mostly unbeknownst to us,were wanting to tell our side growing up through this.

[@BostonsF1nest]

Actually- after the 3 capos murders, Massino would go off to prison down in Alabama until 1991. The boss at that time was Rusty Rastelli. Massino didn’t officially take over until 1991 when he got out and Rastelli was dead.

[@johnx4172]

Blass needs his on story ..love your show🙌🏾👊🏾

[@halColombo]

Basically if you see ski masks and you ain't skiing, run mfs.

[@PurpleJoker52]

Great video, one of the best I've seen. However it feels like towards the end you rushed it. It felt like some details weren't mentioned, like how one of the two killed in was an ally of both vito and raynald.

[@TheNSTLKIAChannel]

I had to rush some elements of the end as I had limited time, so I just briefly mentioned some of the many deaths. If I wanted to give a detailed explanation of each one it'd be a 3 hour long vid 😂

[@pasqualezambito5835]

L P la

[@pasqualezambito5835]

@@TheNSTLKIAChannel pli

[@gingerwingerful]

I know you were running out of time and thank you so much for the time you put to make this documentary however plz can you do more of this mafia documentary in Canada you are such a great narrator

[@edclarke3109]

That was excellent. Any chance of you covering the various hamilton ont families?

[@TheNSTLKIAChannel]

Stay tuned for a great Musitano doc!

[@CW95981]

@@TheNSTLKIAChannelwill it also be full of ads and mispronunciation?

[@thecanadian916]

@@CW95981 and mistakes?

[@vturner]

Merci

[@PQ-yi7zs]

Man, as a Montrealer (not "Montrealite") the way that the narrator mispronounces Montreal over and over again is driving me crazy. It's "Mon-tree-ALL" not "Mon-tree-ELLE"

[@CarcPazu]

Ahaha I'm with you on this one. I just can't pin-point what the hell is this accent exactly. He pronounces the A, I as O (I drink at the bor. Rizzuto's Fodder Lofeftyle…). It doesn't sound as an accent I ever heard, it makes me wonder if he's not just a quebecois that invented some sort of weird accent just to camouflage his Quebecer's accent.

[@Inv1s1bleMan]

Ou en joual québécois Mourrial ou Mouyal en créole lol

[@Ptitnain2]

Montréal is a French word you pronounce it wrong too. 😂

[@PQ-yi7zs]

@@Ptitnain2 yeah I know how its pronounced in french. so find the french documentary that says it wrong and explain it to them. I got it covered over here, dork.

[@halColombo]

😂I can't stand dorks... And dweebs too! They both get annoying af. I got lit in Montreal once and locked my keys in the truck. I called a locksmith in the morning and when I got back to my friend's apartment, my gf was in his bed giving him a fellatio. Ohh to be young. That was over 20 years ago in my early 20s. She and I are still friends in our mid 40s. I don't remember how she got back to NYC that time from Montreal.

[@marioforget2773]

Blass was killed in a chalet in Val David in the Laurentiens by Albert Lisachek former détective for the SQ. He was shot more than sixty times. Lisachek weapon was a Mickey Thompson, very powerful machine gun.

[@juille2779]

AKA le petit Albert, the same cop who flushed out some of the FLQ from a basement......?.

[@sosintheselastdayz7448]

Beikg from Hamilton, i Love information on Hamilton and Montreal mafia .

[@JohnnyAFG81]

It’s pronounced mon-tree-all for us allophones. Great documentary!

[@petermurdoch3001]

nice Doc, saw my old Lawyer Loris Cavaliere(1990) Riz claimed "he's the best GD Lawyer"

[@matgogo8942]

Montreal was founded in 1642 by Maisonneuve and Jeanne Mance. Champlain only visited the island in 1611 but left nothing.

[@Squirrelpadre]

Ok

[@claudemarchand1196]

et champlain fonda québec , un lieu strategique plus pres de la mer

[@seth3920]

I was at florence w Vito 15 years ago. Good guy. Really quiet. When his son was killed he didn't come out of his cell for days. Everyone liked him and was happy to c him go home. Rip Vito

[@garytootall1884]

You forget a Magadino and Bonnano are cousins and grew up together in Sicily

[@billweisman7146]

Excellent Report, spot on and informative. Btw, Montreal is pronounced as Montriall, Montriaul not Montreaal. Great work and concise...🙏🏻🙏🏿

[@Zeke1379]

in french it's Mon-real and to english speakers from Montreal it's mun-tree-all....you'll always know someone isnt from here if they say MONtreeall

[@8BitNaptime]

More like Munchrial

[@donnydonnybrook8131]

Read the book The Sixth Family. It will tell you all about the Montreal family etc.

[@digi0611ify]

Yes, a great read. However the book covers up until 2006ish. This vid does a good job with most of the recent stuff.

[@shakeem2525]

Or Mafia Inc. , Business Or Blood, and The Northern Connection. Read those too for all your Montreal Mafia information.

[@mikehunt9884]

this guy i know who owned a painting and construction business, he was being shaken down by the cotroni, and he wouldn't pay them off, eventually he had no choice because these guys learned that his wife owned a hair salon, and they bought out the building and had her evicted and she lost the business. He ended up having to pay them. He said after he started paying them off they'd often send business his way so it wasn't too bad. Back then they would only go after ppl in the trades that had lucrative commercial contracts. Later when the rizzuto took over they had almost the entire construction business on lock.. they were very powerful and had contacts with politicians on municipal, provincial and some say even on the federal level in canada. They also had a lot of contacts in various police outfits.

[@kevinl4669]

That's always violence, betrayal, prison, murder, death and some people still admire that kind of lifestyle. Mollusc.

[@14me]

SALUTE!

[@theawesomeness29]

good documentary. the cafe was in montreal not st jerome.

[@FirstLast-et3sw]

Little Italy isn’t downtown MTL. OMG the errors……

[@TraitofSiNN727]

mafia wars and biker wars has been in their blood for a very long time including during the FLQ crisis and I'm talking about Montreal.

[@FirstLast-et3sw]

Cosenza Bar was in St-Leonard in Montreal not St-Jerome.

[@CW95981]

And advertisement in the first 80 seconds wow lol.

[@rioriggs3568]

Great job but we're missing some key details on why guys are getting wacked. Also a few mistakes here and there.

[@Ar1AnX1x]

8:20 never seen someone so terrible at lying might have as well been like "uhhhh.... *looks left and right* ummmm.... *runs away* "

[@Johan-nt3wx]

Only 19K sup how?🤔👈

[@user-cq3lk5yv2v]

Vito was none all over the world

[@tonyc7090]

Great documentary. Except we say MonTreeAll, not MountReel. And St LEOnard, not St Lenard. Lol

[@seank6016]

Holy names at the end just throwing names and very little context around. Great up till the last 15 or so

[@SymbiosisGames]

J'compreds pas pourquoi il ya beaucoup des commentaries sur le pronunciation de Montreal. J'suis Quebecois et son pronunciation est plus comme le Français. Oauis en anglais c'est Mont-re-ahl mais c'est pas ça en français tbrnk

[@markbrodie2784]

The Canadian mobile was crazy for murders! Damn!

[@ryancampbell6557]

Well done documentary. The fifth estates crime pays was garbage.

[@marcoallin]

so the book is that old , pretty insane the amout of blood it contain

[@jaysonzambito8803]

Most of the big picture in this video is correct, but many little details need to be corrected. Ex: Pietro Sciara wasn't Violi's #2, the Cosenza Social Club isn't in the city of Saint Jerome, etc...

[@susandevoe6002]

That music throughout, that is supposed to be representative of Montreal, is a total joke (& pretty offensive as "music," period). There was the best soul & r'nb & blues etc. music there, especially out of the New Penelope, the Esquire Show Bar & the Café Metropole. I hung out at the 1st two & worked at the third (a mob club) ...the good old days. I do recall a young Tony DiOrio in 1969 at the Metropole ...a gorgeous, very classy looking & cool dude.

[@daveyboy_]

And today Nov 2023 Gregory Wooley was gunned down

[@sauropod5393]

There is something wrong when he says the police looked at 1 million plus hours of tape. I did some math: 1million hour= 41,666 days= 114 years. Operation Colisée launched in 2004 and came to fruition Nov 2006. It seems to me that it would be physically impossible to review all those hours of tape in the 2 years of the operation. Confused 🤔

[@noogie1967]

Depends how many people were doing the reviewing. Depends on how much was fast forwarded because nothing was happening.

[@sauropod5393]

@@noogie1967 still hard to believe. I will give them the benefit of the doubt: Let us suppose that they have 500 people a day working 8 hrs a day 7 days a week taking no breaks and no lunch they would be viewing 31,500 hrs of tape and would take 32 weeks just to view that excludes transcribing the relevant portions of the tapes. We both know this is not the actual scenario.

[@escogavi4008]

15:05 It was Jimmy Di Maulo who shot Blass. Not Joe Di Maulo

[@matthewcalabro4774]

RIP dad ❤🙏🕊

[@misterslats]

Rizzutos just might be the biggest earning mob family of all-time anywhere. They trafficked coke and heroin by the TON. At one time 80% of the heroin in the U.S. was Rizzuto product. They had yearly sales in the billions at one time. Just huge huge money.

[@nicolasbouchard6331]

The Rizzuto pretty much supplied the whole region around the great lake and we're one of the biggest supplier for the east coast. Vito was definitely the most powerful criminal in North America. The Rizzuto still control the smuggling so they are still rolling in money. The wars only affect the money they made in Montreal and Quebec. their main bisness (exporting tons to large organizations connected to the st-laurent water ways) is still making billions a year.

[@SirLuciferVampiro]

BTW, Massino did not become boss of the Bonanno Family after murdering the 3 Sicilian Captains. "Rusty" Rastelli was boss, Massino didn't become boss until Rusty died, which was years later in the early 90's.....Other than a few pronunciation faux pas, pretty good documentary

[@thecanadian916]

Wym pretty good?😂 That was just one of dozens of mistakes

[@BostonsF1nest]

Vito Rizzuto was definitely the cocaine godfather

[@donnydonnybrook8131]

I see Raynald's luck running out in the near future ✊

[@TheNSTLKIAChannel]

With the new wave of crime in Montreal, probably

[@fricher7806]

Amazing muntreeyell documentary

[@user-uh8ph6yy5j]

I think it was called “mafia row” 27:16

[@VictoriaAlfredSmythe]

thank you from manhattan ©2024

[@robinmaelbrancke2560]

Best hashish in North America comes thru Montreal...with thanks 😎

[@MyLatinLife]

If only bro could say "Montreal" correctly

[@user-jj3ii6mr3x]

Wicked hearts

[@danielgenest644]

Like your video and the information provided is good, if you could take out the background music, it’s in conflict with your voice, that is why I stopped looking at the video.

[@sasasosa6472]

Lol consenza in st jerome ???? Amateurs…it was on jarry street in st leonard

[@rleeboston33]

I do have an issue with your take on who is responsible for all the killing. A lot of people think most of the big time hits are in revenge of the Violi's way back. I don't think it was internal strife.

[@TheNSTLKIAChannel]

Yeah I've learned a lot regarding the mafia conflict in Montreal since making this video, and if I could redo it I'd probably focus the end more on the civil war. I think the struggle between the factions is definitely an ethnic one (Calabrian vs Sicilian) dating back to the Cotroni era. At least some of it.

[@jordanenzie7314]

Paolo Renda and Vito look like twins. They must share the same mother cause Nicolo isn't Renda's father