[1] Additional legal activities on his part included the sale of insurance; work as a building contractor; owning a drywalling firm; and operating a restaurant.

[7] In 1979, Mora was the victim of a murder attempt when much of his lower left leg was torn off by a blast from a shotgun when he was lounging in an illegal gambling house on Harbord Street in Toronto.

[1] The prime suspect in the shooting of Mora, Anthony Carnevale, was killed in January 1980 when he was shot dead in the basement apartment that he lived in with his parents.

[1] On 24 September 1980, Mora made a plea bargain with the Crown under which he pledged guilty to the heroin charges and served two years in prison.

[3] In December 1985, a crew of Papalia family Mafiosi led by Carmen Barillaro were charged with extortion from the illegal gambling houses in Toronto's Greektown in the Pape-Danforth area.

[3] Mora was known for his practice of dousing those behind in their debts to Johnny Papalia with gasoline and threatening to burn them alive if they refused to pay up promptly.

[10] In 1995, the police tapped Mora's phone, and heard him talk about a wedding reception he was planning to attend at the Sutton Place Hotel in Toronto.

[11] On 11 September 1996, Mora was shot four times in the head and his corpse was left in the trunk of his Cadillac automobile, on Teston Road in rural Vaughan.

[14] At his trial in the fall of 2002, Arcuri testified he had been an investor in land speculation alongside Mora; the restaurateur Nicola Galifi; and "a Chinese person".

[14] Moreover, Arcuri was a frail-looking senior citizen with one eye whom the jury was unable to believe had killed Mora, removed his pants and underwear and then placed his 260-pound corpse into the trunk of a car.