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These would-be robbers picked the wrong jewelry store
They are the images Richardson François hoped would never surface in public. By his own admission, the 31-year-old convicted killer who has close ties to a Montreal street gang had sunk to a new low...
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Suspect in attempted murder outside bar is charged
The man who was arrested in April as a suspect in the attempted murder of an alleged street gang member has finally been charged in connection with the shooting. Cibanda Cris (Red Baby) Kamuena, 23,...
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Extended Cinar fraud trial ends with guilty verdict
The longest criminal trial ever put before a jury in Canada ended on Thursday with all three accused being found guilty of defrauding shareholders in what was once considered one of the country’s best...
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Judge refuses to explain sending Cinar co-founder directly to jail after...
A Superior Court judge refused on Friday to explain his decision to order Ronald Weinberg incarcerated after the co-founder of Cinar Corp. was found guilty by a jury in a lengthy fraud trial....
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Jury selection to begin on Monday in murder trial of Richard Henry Bain
Jury selection is set to begin on Monday in the trial of Richard Henry Bain, the man accused of killing a person nearly four years ago outside a Montreal nightclub while the Parti Québécois was...
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Mafia killing: Widow of Salvatore Montagna has harsh words for Raynald...
Behind every homicide carried out in Montreal’s underworld is human suffering, and Francesca Montagna’s harsh words for a man who plotted her husband’s death are a reminder of that pain. “I will...
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Sentence hearing looms for men who worked together to kill Mafioso Salvatore...
Six of the eight men implicated in the Nov. 24, 2011 murder of Salvatore Montagna are scheduled to have a sentence hearing on Friday. The six pleaded guilty on March 30 to being part of the conspiracy...
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Secret messages tell the story behind a high-profile mob hit
In the months before he was gunned down in cold blood, Mafioso Salvatore Montagna was being hunted by a team of people who knew almost every move he made while he was being betrayed by a cloned...
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Salvatore Montagna's gangland killer got bored in Ottawa, text messages reveal
Even a man trying to lay low after pulling off a gangland murder can find Ottawa boring after a few days. Evidence gathered in the police investigation into the Nov. 24, 2011, murder of Mafioso...
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Jack Simpson: from portable toilet sales rep to trigger man in Montreal Mafia...
The man police believe pulled the trigger on Salvatore Montagna was a sales rep for a portable toilet company when the high-ranking Mafioso was killed in 2011. Jack Arthur Simpson was 69 when he was...
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Rizzuto bail request denied; Sollecito's granted
Alleged Montreal Mafia leader Stefano Sollecito was granted bail Wednesday in a drug trafficking case after a Superior Court judge agreed he cannot adequately be treated for the cancer he is suffering...
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Wedding reception was a who's who of Montreal gangsters
Talk about pressure. In between surviving an attempt on his life and plotting to kill Mafioso Salvatore Montagna, Raynald Desjardins squeezed in his only daughter’s wedding. The Oct. 1, 2011, nuptials...
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Cinar co-founder Weinberg and two accomplices to be sentenced Wednesday
Ronald Weinberg once said it is easier to ask for forgiveness after doing something wrong than to ask for permission before doing it. The co-founder of Cinar Corp. will soon find out whether that is...
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Rifles found in Bain's vehicle were ready to fire
Police officers who searched through Richard Henry Bain’s vehicle moments after a man was killed outside the Metropolis nightclub while the Parti Québécois celebrated their 2012 election victory inside...
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Court rejects sentence appeal of Raynald Desjardins's bodyguard
The man who acted as Raynald Desjardins’s bodyguard when an attempt was made on his life in 2011 has seen his appeal of the sentence he received for recklessly discharging a firearm that day rejected....
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Police found arsenal inside Richard Henry Bain's home after shooting
An explosives expert who was assigned to search Richard Henry Bain’s home after he allegedly murdered Denis Blanchette found a stockpile of weapons on the remote property where the accused in the...
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Recordings from Facebook heard at Richard Henry Bain murder trial
An audio recording of Richard Henry Bain, posted on Facebook just months after his arrest for murder, offers potential insight into his motives on the night he is alleged to have killed stagehand Denis...
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Not all of Bain's 22 legal firearms were accounted for
The stockpile of firearms Richard Henry Bain possessed when he is alleged to have killed Denis Blanchette was legal, but six of the 22 guns he had registered have never been recovered by police....
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Robber whose face was scarred by acid sentenced to 12 years
A man whose face was left permanently scarred after the tables were turned on him when he and an accomplice tried to rob a jewelry store in Park Extension has been sentenced to a 12-year prison term....
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Bain called CJAD to talk politics two weeks after arrest
Richard Henry Bain’s arrest for murder in the election night shooting in 2012 came as a shock to his siblings, who believed all was going well in his life. The jury learned this on Thursday afternoon...
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