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Vito Rizzuto, right, reputed head of the Montreal Mafia, speaks with his attorney Jean Salois after his hearing in Montreal on Feb. 6, 2004. (via The Rizzutos’ Sicilian roots: Tracing the Quebec mob’s ties to Cattolica Eraclea | News | National Post) As he acclimatizes to freedom, his family’s affairs continue to be revealed at Quebec’s Charbonneau commission probing corruption in the construction industry. With each bombshell — about political financing, crooked business cartels and payments to the mob — the importance of the town of Cattolica Eraclea is never far away. Star witness Lino Zambito, a Montreal construction boss, said his entry into the cartel that rigged huge public works contracts came easy because his father, Giuseppe, was from Cattolica Eraclea. Many of the Quebec businessmen accused of colluding with the Rizzutos, paying them 2.5% on contracts, also have close ties here: Domenico Arcuri, owner of a decontamination company, is the son of an alleged mobster from Cattolica; Accursio Sciascia, a paving company boss, was vice-president of Montreal’s Association Cattolica Eraclea, a group for ex-pats; Frank Catania, founder of a road construction firm, is another Cattolica émigré; as are others. Even the café used as the Montreal mob’s headquarters, where secret police videos were recorded of businessmen handing over piles of cash, was renamed after the town. Corruption and Mafia: Sicily greatest exports

Vito Rizzuto, right, reputed head of the Montreal Mafia, speaks with his attorney Jean Salois after his hearing in Montreal on Feb. 6, 2004. (via The Rizzutos’ Sicilian roots: Tracing the Quebec mob’s ties to Cattolica Eraclea | News | National Post)

  • As he acclimatizes to freedom, his family’s affairs continue to be revealed at Quebec’s Charbonneau commission probing corruption in the construction industry. With each bombshell — about political financing, crooked business cartels and payments to the mob — the importance of the town of Cattolica Eraclea is never far away.
  • Star witness Lino Zambito, a Montreal construction boss, said his entry into the cartel that rigged huge public works contracts came easy because his father, Giuseppe, was from Cattolica Eraclea.
  • Many of the Quebec businessmen accused of colluding with the Rizzutos, paying them 2.5% on contracts, also have close ties here: Domenico Arcuri, owner of a decontamination company, is the son of an alleged mobster from Cattolica; Accursio Sciascia, a paving company boss, was vice-president of Montreal’s Association Cattolica Eraclea, a group for ex-pats; Frank Catania, founder of a road construction firm, is another Cattolica émigré; as are others.
  • Even the café used as the Montreal mob’s headquarters, where secret police videos were recorded of businessmen handing over piles of cash, was renamed after the town.
Corruption and Mafia: Sicily greatest exports
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A key question is how much of the blame should Capt Schettino himself bear, and how much responsibility for the disaster lies with his crew and employer, Costa Crociere, a division of the Miami-based Carnival Corp. Last month, court-appointed experts delivered a 270-page report of what went wrong that night based on an analysis of data recorders, ship communications equipment, testimony and other evidence. The experts, who included two admirals and two engineers, laid most of the blame for the collision with the reef and the botched evacuation on Capt Schettino. But they also noted that not all crew members understood Italian, not all had current safety and evacuation certifications, and not all passengers had had the chance to participate in evacuation drills.
— Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino faces survivors in court | The Australian
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The owner of a Viennese ice-cream parlour has been charged with murdering her ex-husband and her boyfriend before sealing them in tubs with concrete in her cellar. Estbaliz Carranza, 34, is accused of shooting both men and then chopping up their bodies to conceal them in concrete on her basement floor using skills she learnt on a DIY course. Carranza - dubbed the ‘Ice Lady’ by Austrian media - allegedly shot her ex-husband Holger H twice in the back of the head while he worked on his computer in 2008. (via Estbaliz Carranza: Owner of a Viennese ice-cream parlour charged with double murder of husband and lover | Mail Online) According to the prosecution, she decided to kill him when he refused to move out of their flat after she became involved with another man. After initially trying to incinerate the body, Estibaliz used a chainsaw to cut it into smaller parts, which she then sealed with concrete in the cellar her ice cream parlour. Two years later, the prosecution claim Carranza found out her then boyfriend Manfred H was seeing other women and took shooting lessons and courses in mixing concrete at a hardware store and bought another chainsaw. It is alleged that in November 2010, she shot him four times in the head as he slept before sawing up his body parts and hiding the remains in the same way she concealed those of her husband. In June 2011 workers installing pipes made the grisly discovery of a leg and other body parts and alerted the police.

The owner of a Viennese ice-cream parlour has been charged with murdering her ex-husband and her boyfriend before sealing them in tubs with concrete in her cellar. Estbaliz Carranza, 34, is accused of shooting both men and then chopping up their bodies to conceal them in concrete on her basement floor using skills she learnt on a DIY course. Carranza - dubbed the ‘Ice Lady’ by Austrian media - allegedly shot her ex-husband Holger H twice in the back of the head while he worked on his computer in 2008. (via Estbaliz Carranza: Owner of a Viennese ice-cream parlour charged with double murder of husband and lover | Mail Online)

  • According to the prosecution, she decided to kill him when he refused to move out of their flat after she became involved with another man.
  • After initially trying to incinerate the body, Estibaliz used a chainsaw to cut it into smaller parts, which she then sealed with concrete in the cellar her ice cream parlour.
  • Two years later, the prosecution claim Carranza found out her then boyfriend Manfred H was seeing other women and took shooting lessons and courses in mixing concrete at a hardware store and bought another chainsaw.
  • It is alleged that in November 2010, she shot him four times in the head as he slept before sawing up his body parts and hiding the remains in the same way she concealed those of her husband.
  • In June 2011 workers installing pipes made the grisly discovery of a leg and other body parts and alerted the police.
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