Francesco Del Balso

[7] The loss of $5.1 million over a two year period did not concern him as Del Balso's gambling was a form of money laundering, which allowed explanation to the Canada Revenue Agency the hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash he kept at his house as the result of his winnings.

[8] In February 2006, Intermarché Bellerose provide Del Balso with a record of employment and fake pay stubs to prove that he had been working for the company over the several years.

[10] On December 15, 2004, the police camera at the Bar Laennec recorded Del Balso, Giordano and another mobster Mike Lapolla beat Faustini.

[11] Faustini was also in debt to Richard Griffin of the West End Gang concerning a shipment of 1,300 kilos of cocaine from Venezuela that had landed in Newark, New Jersey and later seized in Boucherville.

[12] On November 25, 2005, Del Balso was hired by Intermarché Lagoria grocery store chain owner Cosimo Chimienti, to recover the $300,000 that he had invested with John Xanthoudakis, the CEO of Norshield Financial Group, who had stolen the money.

[14] At a meeting at the Consenza Social Club, Del Balso was criticized by Nicolo Rizzuto and Paolo Renda for not ensuring that Xanthoudakis paid up sooner.

[18] On September 4, 2006, Giuseppe Feta were seen handling weapons such as a handguns fitted out with silencers and machineguns at a warehouse owned by Del Balso.

[19] Del Balso was also engaged in gun-running and when the police raided his warehouse they found two AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, one machinegun, one shotgun, two bulletproof vests, and ammunition.

[21] On November 22, 2006, Del Balso was arrested along with dozens of others including Nicolo Rizzuto, Paolo Renda, Rocco Sollecito, Francesco Arcadi, and Lorenzo Giordano as part of the four-year Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation known as Project Colisée.

[22] Sollecito pled guilty on September 18, 2008 to "general conspiracy to commit extortion, bookmaking, illegal gaming as well as being in possession of the proceeds of crime" and was sentenced to eight years imprisonment.

[5] Del Balso also pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns between 2003 and 2006 and for trafficking in cocaine in alliance with the Hells Angels.

[23] In one wiretapped phone call introduced as evidence by the Crown, Del Balso threatened the life of a ceramic company executive, saying: "Because the next time, you won't leave here, okay?

[25][26] In May 2017, a French-Canadian man Marc Laflamme Berthelot broke into Del Balso's house and threatened to kill his family unless they told him where he was.

[26] One of Del Balso's relatives managed to call him to warn him about what was going on and he took off his electronic monitoring bracelet that he was required to wear on his ankle as part of a series of conditions imposed on him by the Parole Board of Canada.

[26] Several days later Del Balso attempted to flee Canada on a flight to Italy at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport but was arrested and his passport was confiscated; he was released without being charged.