Two attempts were made on Del Balso\u0027s life in recent months.
Nicaso, who has written several books on the Mafia, described Del Balso as a senior member of the Rizzuto crime family when it was still led by Vito Rizzuto.
One of his more chilling threats was played during the Charbonneau Commission to show how the Montreal Mafia had influence in the construction industry. In 2004, while investigated in Colisée, Del Balso was recorded when he called a tool rental company seeking to collect on unpaid bills. The Rizzuto organization’s supremacy over the Montreal Mafia was challenged several times. In 2016, Lorenzo Giordano, with whom Del Balso worked closely while both were investigated in Colisée, was killed in Laval, also close to a workout gym. An informant who testified at a series of murder trials said Giordano was killed on orders from brothers Salvatore and Andrea Scoppa as part of a conflict between Sicilian and Calabrian clans within the Montreal Mafia.
Del Balso also told the parole board he was shaken, just before he left, when he saw his younger son crying in the arms of his older son. Three years later, it was obvious that Del Balso’s life was still in jeopardy. The Lexus he was driving near his home in Laval was damaged by bullets as someone tried to kill him.
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