[2] An internal war broke out between the Calabrian and Sicilian factions of the family in the late 1970s, which resulted in the death of acting captain Paolo Violi and his brothers.

[3] In the late 1920s, Cotroni attended a wrestling school where his teacher, the French-Canadian professional wrestler Armand Courville, ended up joining the family.

Galante planned to make Montreal a pivotal location in the importation of heroin from overseas for distribution in New York and across the United States via the French Connection.

[8] The vast majority of the "made men" originated from the Mezzogiorno (the south of Italy), but most unusually there was no rules against members from different regions, with Calabrians and Sicilians both serving in the Cotroni family.

[8] In 1975, Dr. Alberto Sabatino of the Italian Polizia di Stato testified as an expert witness at the Commission d'Enquête sur le Crime Organisé (CECO) that the Cotroni family was "exceptional" in having Sicilians and Calabrians working together.

[8] Laporte's two principle aides, René Gagnon and Jean-Jacques Coté, met with Di Iorio and D'Asti to pick up briefcases full of cash during his 1969 leadership bid and again in the 1970 provincial election, which was won by the Liberals.

[9] After Bourassa became premier, Di Iorio and D'Asti were recorded by police bugs in expressing the hope that Laporte would become the Quebec Attorney-General and were disappointed when he failed to secure that portfolio.

[14] However, the fact that Robert Bourassa appointed Laporte Minister of Labour was considered to be a consolation prize by the two men, and Coté promised them that the new Attorney-General, Jérôme Choquette, would be friendly towards the Cotroni family.

[14] During the October Crisis of 1970, Cotroni was often mentioned in the manifestos of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), which accused the gangster of rigging elections on behalf of the Liberals and being one of the exploiters of the French-Canadian working class.

[27][6][28] In 1976, the recordings made by Ménard over the previous six years were played in public at Commission d'enquête sur le crime organisé, which destroyed Violi's reputation.

[6][32][33] Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of the Toronto Star wrote: "Vic Cotroni was not one to buck New York and any hit on Violi had to be sanctioned from the United States".

[37] In the early 1990s, Melo took the lead in forging a cross-Canada alliance with the Commisso 'ndrina of Toronto and the East End Vancouver chapter of the Hells Angels.

[38] The police surveillance teams observed Melo frequently having meetings in Toronto with the three Commisso brothers and Lloyd "Louie" Robinson, the sergeant-at-arms of the Hells Angels East End chapter.

[39][40] On 17 August 2004, Frank Cotroni died of brain cancer, leaving the Rizzuto Sicilian faction as the most powerful crime family in Canada.