http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/revenue-canada-corruption-feared-over-400k-cheque-to-nicolo-rizzuto-1.1868426
Nicolo Rizzuto, one of the most influential Italian mobsters in Québec owed the Canada Revenue Agency over 1.5 million in unpaid taxes around 2007. However, a cheque of $381,737.46 coming from the Montreal's department of this very same agency ended up in his family's hands (he was in jail at that time). The cheque was supposedly there to refund them tax money that they overpaid... Even if the cheque has never been cashed in because of the intervention of an anti-organized-crime unit policeman, it is surprising to see that an amount of money that big, addressed to one of the most known mobsters managed its way into the system without ever being questioned. It is most likely to be the result of corruption taking place into the Montreal department, which has been put under an investigation under a request filed by their head office. With corruption able to infiltrate national agencies, the future that seems to be ahead of us does not seem quite good. Let's hope that this storm is going to stay over our heads as shortly as possible.
Carl Paquet
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Friday, 27 September 2013
Construction boss admits to corruption
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/09/27/quebec-construction-collusion_n_1921190.html
Quebec is cracking down on organized crime in the construction industry as a construction contractor who was brought to court admits to rigging the bids for public work projects. Lino Zambito admitted to the court that the mob over saw all his contracts and the building owners would be forced to pay the mob in cash. Infrabrec construction is a multi-million dollar industry that would rack in on average 10 to 15milion dollars a year. They had a system with other corrupted company's where they would assure that they would not truly bid against each other for projects. They would tell the other company's there bids for projects and assure that the bid was low that they can al split the profits and continue to get richer when the contract is developed. Zambito stated "it's a business, entrepreneurs made money, and an amount was due to the mafia". Québec's anti-corruption investigators are cracking down hard and finding much more evidence and they realize that corruptions leads to taking are tax payers money. They continue to destroy corruption in organized crime and political parties.
TREY WILSON
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Friday, 20 September 2013
UPAC serches PLQ offices
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2013/09/16/009-perquisition-upac-siege-parti-liberal-du-quebec-montreal-financement.shtml
The UPAC (Unité Permanente Anti-Corruption), which is Quebec's department of investigation, obtained a search warrant in order to find evidence of illegal political funding made by the PLQ (Parti libéral du Québec). After the confession of Lino Zambito, an ex-businessman linked to the mafia, which were accusing the government of corruption, the UPAC built a case against the Party and this summer, when nobody was watching them because of the Lac-Mégantic tragedy, they obtained a warrant and went directly in the principal PLQ offices in Montreal. The warrant was then sealed, so the public couldn't ever know what were the motives behind this search. It is sad to see that in a society like today where money is tight and every budget is closely watched, our own government still abuses our trust and doesn't use the taxpayers money the way it was meant to be used. From a subjective point of view, some might argue that the people who gave an illegal amount of money had the moral right to do it because it was their money, but from an objective point of view, the UPAC made a great job, because the laws have to be followed.
The UPAC (Unité Permanente Anti-Corruption), which is Quebec's department of investigation, obtained a search warrant in order to find evidence of illegal political funding made by the PLQ (Parti libéral du Québec). After the confession of Lino Zambito, an ex-businessman linked to the mafia, which were accusing the government of corruption, the UPAC built a case against the Party and this summer, when nobody was watching them because of the Lac-Mégantic tragedy, they obtained a warrant and went directly in the principal PLQ offices in Montreal. The warrant was then sealed, so the public couldn't ever know what were the motives behind this search. It is sad to see that in a society like today where money is tight and every budget is closely watched, our own government still abuses our trust and doesn't use the taxpayers money the way it was meant to be used. From a subjective point of view, some might argue that the people who gave an illegal amount of money had the moral right to do it because it was their money, but from an objective point of view, the UPAC made a great job, because the laws have to be followed.
Mayor of Laval charged with gangsterism
The Mayor of Laval Gille Vallancourt has been running organized crime in Laval for the past 10years after winning 6 straight elections with no contest. He would do everything from take cash donations, fraud and extortion and was charged with the 3rd highest case of gansterism. This charge is normally associated with mobsters and bikers. Vallancourt was apparently very close with the Rizzuto clan and the Hell's Angels. This type of social deviance is unheard of with men of high power because of social conformity. Its shocking to find corruption so close to our everyday lives as Vallancourt would take tax payers money. 37 people also went down with Vallancourt which makes this an extreme case of social deviance.
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