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Brian Mann on November 25th, 2011
The Associated Press is reporting that Salvatore Montagna, an alleged American mafia boss, has turned up dead in the L’Assomption River north of Montreal.
The FBI once called him the acting boss of the Bonanno crime family – prompting one of New York’s tabloids to call him the “Bambino Boss” because of his rise to power in his mid-30s. Nicknamed “Sal The Iron Worker,” he owned and operated a successful steel business in the U.S.
Montagna’s death is the latest in a series of Mafia-related killings and disappearances over the last two years. He was considered a contender to take over the decimated Rizzuto family.
Montagna was born in Montreal, raised in Sicily, but was active in the United States. Read the full article here.
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I suppose the FBI and whoever else will try to find out who killed him. I have never been able to understand why tax payer dollars are spent to find out who killed some known crime boss or other known criminal.
They have their own system of justice, such as it is, and it doesn’t cost the tax payer a dime except for the money spent by the government to “bring someone to justice.”
I guess the government likes to have a monopoly when it comes to killing criminals.
Go figure.