Gaetano Panepinto

[1] He was well known in Toronto for his television ads that frequently aired on late nights in the 1980s and 1990s where Panepinto solemnly intoned this slogan.

[1] Panepinto's persona was of a kind-hearted businessman who sold cheap coffins and donated generously to charity, but his major sources of income were running illegal gambling houses and stealing consumer electronics, especially stereo systems, from warehouses.

[2] He was the leader of a criminal "crew" who sold ecstasy, GHB, the so-called "date rape drug"; and marijuana.

[2] The most prominent member of Panepinto's crew was a thief known as "Spiderman" for his ability to climb up walls, whose mother was the mistress of Rizzuto.

[3] Panepinto was close with a number of outlaw biker gangs in the Toronto area such as the Vagabonds, the Para-Dice Riders and the Last Chance.

[6] As Cédilot and Noël write: "Delegating management of his Ontario dealings to a man as unpredictable as Guy Panepinto may not have been among Vito's wiser business decisions.

The 'Discount Coffin Guy' was built like a linebacker, but had scarcely more judgment than a teenager, and working closely with the powerful Montreal godfather gave him a sense of impunity".

[9] It is believed that Panepinto had killed Napoli and Oppedisano in the basement of his Casket Royale store, dismembered their corpses and burned what was left.

[9] Rizzuto had personally assured Panepinto in a meeting that his "protection" had resumed, and he need not fear the Commisso clan should he return to Toronto.

[12] Detective Inspector Paul Sorel of the York Regional Police told the media that if Panepinto were still alive, he would have been arrested as part of the Operation RIP raids.