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2 g & nN 3 e ¢ BOPINION RECORDING A MAFIA INDUCTION CEREMONY # AGENT BEING ‘MADE’ CAUGHT ON CAMERA, = WRITES STEPHEN METELSKY Oakville Beaver | Thursdi underworld talk of the RCMP's prized police agent becoming elevated in the mafia. The chatter was em- anating from New York and it centred around the agent HALTON CRIME, CONFIDENTIAL. @eegere fe The RCMP even dis- cussed the idea of f planting fia induction ceremony — repre: fia ad- age, “int by the gun, out by the gun.” Underworld plans for oming a "made man" in the ceremony we tent the Bonanno fai tive with many cancella- “4 STEPHEN METELSKY Mobsters on pot sides wa aor, ofthe FBI. tions “bare whe 21, alice “So from this day forward, you're a member ‘olumn of the border obviously His brief absences pro- Days e afro, e police FI . —————— ho idea the mobster videdauniqueopportunity agen! RCMP of the Bonanno family, congratulations. The following isPart2of turned-agent was wearing for RCMP technicians to feelin te ‘oan Tt mob- MP image a three-part series. a wire and recording them. discreetly enter the agents sters from New York were The mafia induction ceremony of an undercover police agent is The RCMP's project It offered the Milton- e batteries coming to Hamilton. captured on camera. tremens was well under- based RCMP team a unique on den recording devic- The notice afforded the way in the fall of 2015. i lan and reted in strategic lo- investigative team and _ guy,thisguy,thisguy—ev- cried. The mobster-turned-po- possibly record the agent cations where the agent RCMP technicians to sur- erybody approved it, so The official induction of lice-agent had blendedinto beinginducted duringase- _ hosted his mob friends. reptitiously install cam- from this day forward, theRCMP'spoliceagentnot sol Ontario's under- cretive mafia ceremony. The topic of the police eras and recording devices you're a member of the only elevated project Otre- world seamlessly. ere The RCMP wereincom- agent getting "made" was a a downtown Hamilton Bonanno Congratu- mens, butit also catapulted otherwise. He was born in munication with their part- ners to the south — the FBI high priority of discussion during the Monday morn- hotel room. It was a top-se- cret mission. ‘ummo as he presided over the ceremo- the agent's status in the mob. Italy and raised in the mob Giscuss now and ing meetings 2 at the wnton On Nov. 21, 2015, at 12:42 "It was very significant,” on the streets of Brooklyn, where ould RCM. p.m., there was a knock on ywyoure gonna be in our said Antonio Nicaso, pro- becoming astreetsoldierin occur. Weald it happen in where the crseu project the hotel room door of the regime. Youonly answer to fessor at Queen's Universi- the Bonanno crime family. the United States or Italy? teamconductedbusinessin mobster-turned-agent. the Bonanno family," Zum- ty, organized crime expert he was sent to Eventually, it was decided a second floor secured pro- Cameras were rolling as mocontinued. and author of over 40 books. prison years earlier, he did _it should occur on Can: ject ibl lly by feam lis- "OK," said the agent, on the subject. "The ritual his time and upheld the an soil in Hamilton, sen Otremens investigators. eet in nearby. who from that moment on marks a passage. It's like a ath of "Omerta." He kept the police agent had lived The weekly 9 a.m. meet- Damiano Zummo, an_ would be introduced as "a a into a new life." his mouth shut and was’ during the four-year pro- ings occurred o1 e acting Bonanno captain, friend of ours" — mob ver- w life that involved coneered tobea"standup ject. floor in a large conference was accompanied by Paul nacular indicating he's a being privy to the secretive, y" because he didn't rat Aside from a flashy room that overlooked the Semplice, another New " inner workings of the mob. on ‘his mob friends. sports car and a penchant town of Milton. For weeks, York mobster. The police The two mobsters shook Part 3: Undermining an He was connected with for American cigarettes, next investigative steps re- agent was greeted with the agent's hand, kissed underboss mobsters in the five New thepoliceagentblendedin- volved around the poli hugs and the ceremonial himoneachcheek andthen York mafia families, in Buf- toaquiet Hamiltonsuburb agent getting inducted. It's mob kiss on each cheek. promptly returned to New Stephen Metelsky is an falo, Montrealandin Ham- near Greenhill Avenue off a highly secretive event in They quickly got down to author, professor, and re- ilton, Ont. — a city where the Red Hill Valley Park- the mob and the RCMP business after the sound of ort wasan occasion rarely tired Halton regional police he had Anown the Violi way. were treating it with the the television was turned captured during large- detective. Follow on X (for- brother: make it appear natu- same priority. up—a mob tactic to drown scale police investigations. merly known as Twitter) His Teputation in the ralandauthentic, the agent Other police agencies, out possible recording dc The ‘MP team @StephenMetelsky Have a mob was solid. would regularly travel back even other RCMP m« vices. Yet, the RCMP were small window to ‘elotrate story idea? Reach him at However, during the to New York to conduct pets. were not privy to pro. tuned in loud and clear. the momentous achieve. HalionCrimeConfiden- summer of 2015 there was mob business under ct Otremen: “It's already, from ‘this ent. Som mbers jal@gmail CoF-1¢ The Town of Oakville intends to control weeds in medians, boulevards and shrub beds along the follow- ing roadsides and parks: Using the following pesticide registered under the Pest Control Products Act (Canada): Finalsan Pro Commercial Concentrate (Reg. No. 30012), containing the active ingredient ammonium soap of fatty acids. 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