Former Montreal Gangster Shot Dead in Mexico

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Montreal’s underworld has reached all the way to Mexico, where an importer gangster Moreno Gallo was murdered near his beachside retirement retreat on Sunday night. The 68-year-old one-time player who belonged to the crime network controlled by Vito Rizzuto, Mr. Gallo, was shot dead while dining among friends at an Italian restaurant in Acapulco.

According to local media reports, Mr. Gallo was wearing white slacks and a pink shirt, while he dined at a restaurant named Forza Italia when a man dressed in black shot him several times in the head with a 9mm pistol. Mr. Gallo has once been touted as potential replacement godfather of the Montreal Mob almost ten years ago, though his fate faded in result of small spells in prison and the threat of expulsion from Canada. A news article published by La Presse on Monday states that he picked the wrong side in a power struggle for control of the city. It was explained that Mr. Gallo belonged to the Calabrian clan, which ran Montreal into the late 1970s, when the Sicilian Rizzutos rose to power and incorporated several survivors from the ranks of their former Calabrian enemies, including Mr. Gallo.

A book entitled, Mafia Inc., and authored by crime writers, André Cédilot and André Noël, reports that Mr. Gallo was tabbed as a potential Rizzuto clan leader in the early 2000s. Whereas, several police affidavits also recognize him as one of those in the inner circle of the family that handled the family’s money and settled disputes over drug territory.

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