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Mob Wife Accused Of Killing Children

Mob life may be inconsistent with family values.

While reputed Rizzuto associate Giuseppe De Vito was on the lam from drug charges his wife Adele Sorella allegedly murdered their eight- and nine-year-old daughters, and jury selection in the notorious case starts today as reported by Paul Cherry for The Gazette: 

Sorella, 47, was charged, in April 2009, with the first-degree murders of daughters Sabrina and Amanda De Vito, ages 8 and 9 respectively. The girls' bodies were discovered inside their family's home in Laval on March 31, 2009.

After four years as a fugitive Giuseppe De Vito was apprehended in October 2010, and last June was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for his role in a cocaine smuggling operation through the Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport as then reported by Paul Cherry for The Gazette:  "wiretaps revealed De Vito was furious . . . because the people who did the actual smuggling lied to the Mafia about how much they were importing to avoid a so-called tax the organization charged for 'a door' through the airport created by De Vito."

Neither Sorella nor De Vito attended the poor girls' funeral.

Further reading that may be of interest:

Nicky Deuce Is Nickleodeon's Shame

Nicolo Milioto Gushes Over Nicolo Rizzuto

Nicolo Milioto testified for a third day before the Charbonneau Commission which is investigating corruption allegations involving the Montreal Mafia and dirty officials in the award of public contracts in the construction industry, and although admitting that he was a sometime errand boy for Nicolo Rizzuto insists that he never was involved with any of the recently-slain mob patriarch's dirty affairs as reported by CBC News:  "he said he was simply friends with the Rizzutos and any illegal activities they may have been involved in were none of his business," and added "to me, they were good people who I respected and nothing more."

An apparently incredulous Justice France Charbonneau who is presiding over the hearings twice reminded Milioto "even vague or imprecise answers" could result in perjury or contempt charges against him as reported by Monique Muse for The Gazette.

Report: Vito Rizzuto Keeps Mafia Crown

The attempted coup against Vito Rizzuto has been decidely squashed since the reputed boss's return to Montreal as reported by Paul Cherry for The Gazette: 

An effort to wrestle control of the Mafia in Montreal from the Rizzuto clan appears to have failed, experts said, after it blew up in the face of the men allegedly behind it, leaving Rizzuto almost unchallenged when he returned to the city in October after serving most of a 10-year prison term in the United States for his role in the 1981 murders of three fellow mobsters in New York.

Of course, in the meantime Rizzuto lost his father Nicolo and son Nick Jr. to the bloody rebellion.

Girolamo Sciortino Is A Changed Man

Apparently 71-year-old Girolamo Sciortino has put the life behind him.

Sciortino was arrested in 1995 -- the same year his son married the daughter of reputed Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto -- for his role in smuggling cocaine from the United States into Canada through the Akwesasne reservation which straddles the border.  However, several years in prison on that and another drug plot must have scared him straight.  Sciortino was released in 2008, and his parole team says he's "been leading a fairly routine life . . . and appears to have adjusted to the modest life of a man with limited financial means" as reported by Adrian Humphreys for The Gazette. 

Don't you just love a rehabilitation story?

Mafia War: Another One Bites The Dust

That's a shame.

Apparently the Montreal underworld has lost another family member.

Gaétan Gosselin was gunned down on Tuesday afternoon, and he reportedly was the former brother-in-law of reputed Rizzuto associate Raynald Desjardins who is awaiting trial for his alleged role in the November 2011 slaying of ex-Bonanno boss Salvatore "Sal the Ironworker" Montagna as reported by Paul Cherry and Jan Ravensbergen for The Gazette.

The police are questioning two suspects in the Gosselin hit.

The ongoing Mafia War for control over the drug trade in Montreal and NYC has resulted in dozens of murders over the last few years, and it's pretty clear that the cops are unable to stop it.