An alleged Mafia boss with a strong Toronto-area connection has been discovered dead in his Italian prison cell, the victim of an apparent suicide. Italian police said Gregoraci was a lieutenant under Giuseppe (The Master) Commisso in the ’Ndrangheta — or Calabrian Mafia — and had tight ties to the GTA. While in the Toronto area, they met the brothers Cosimo and Angelo Figliomeni of York Region, Italian police said. “We have dismantled the financial structure of this organized crime operation, both here and in Italy,” York Regional Police Chief Eric Jolliffe said at the time. Il Quotidiano del Sud noted that prison unions had already complained to regional prison authorities about a lack of security at Voghera prison, which the union said endangers staff and inmates.

Source: thestar January 27, 2020 17:03 UTC