Musitano was born into the Mafia as the eldest son of a Mafia boss, and he embraced its outlaw culture until his final day
“The police were always against us — me and my dad,” Musitano said in 2004. “We were brought up that the police was always against us.”
Musitano married in 1994 at a large, fancy wedding with a thousand guests in a Hamilton banquet hall. They would have no children. As he waited for the judge’s verdict in the arson case, Musitano grew impatient with the judge: “Doesn’t he realize I have champagne waiting on ice?” he quipped. His entourage loved it.
It set off a power struggle within Hamilton’s underworld at a time when things were changing elsewhere. In Montreal, Sicilian Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto had solidified his power over Quebec and looked at Ontario as a place to grow.Article content continued A few months after the two murders, but before their arrests, Musitano and his cousin, Avignone, joined Rizzuto for a late-night meeting in a restaurant north of Toronto. Musitano backed the Sicilians in Ontario, where Calabrian mobsters ran the underworld.
“Wiseguys, however, described Pat as a ‘snake’ and would constantly discuss — with enthusiasm — how he would get whacked and who would do it.”Article content continued In 2016, other wiretaps of different mobsters, caught less flattering nicknames. The Musitano brothers were referred to as “the Fatsos” and “the Idiots.”
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