[4] Fluent in Spanish, French, Italian and English, Fernández had connections with the Hells Angels, the West End Gang, the seven 'Ndrangheta clans of Toronto and with Colombian drug cartels.
[4] After the bombing, the owner of the Pizza Hut franchise announced plans to resume construction, leading for the daughter of Cuntrea to tell her mother in a wiretapped phone call on 26 February 1991 to say that the man must have had a "death wish".
[4] Another police report described Fernández as "a mobile-type drug supplier; i.e he operates from his vehicle and is constantly on the move, using cellphones and pages to stay in contact with his customers".
[9] The most frequent visitors for Fernández were Desjardins's wife who regularly drove up from Montreal to see him and Carole Jacques, a prominent lawyer and a Conservative MP from 1984 to 1993 who was later convicted of influence peddling.
[8] Fernández tried to recruit former Hells Angels hitman Serge Quesnel to pass on $50,000 to bribe a witness for the Crown at a Mafia trial to change his testimony.
Together with Glen Cameron of the West End Gang, Fernández set up drug deals from his prison cell to import hashish from Jamaica into Canada.
[8] When Cameron was released from prison in 1997, he fell into difficulties with the Hells Angels who shot him in the leg and warned him with a gun forced against his face to not to sell cocaine to the Rock Machine anymore.
[9] Fernández promptly moved to the United States where he settled in an apartment in Florida rented by Carmine Iacono, a well known lawyer in the Toronto area.
[14] Fernández told his fiancée that she should charge her friend $300 per week to pay for the luxury leather couches he had purchased with the credit card made in Shaddock's name.
[15] Fernández was a major shareholder in the Olifas Marketing Group (OMG) that won contracts for recycling newspapers and plastics in numerous Canadian cities, namely Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, London, Markham, Windsor and St.
[17] Fernández was often seen talking to two men who sat on OMG's board of directors, Giancarolo Serpe, the former business partner of the Mafiosi Enio Mora and Frank Campoli who was a cousin of Rizzuto's wife and had been implicated in the Penway stock swindle affair.
[15] In December 2001, Fernández attended a meeting at the Centre Callego social club in Montreal with Nasser, Rojas, Guede and the Portuguese truck driver who cannot be named because of a court order to discuss smuggling cocaine into Toronto.
[21] Nasser phoned Fernández from Colombia to say he wanted 20% of all the profits based on an agreement that Rizzuto had made with the Hells Angels Montreal chapter president Maurice Boucher in June 2000 that stated the price for cocaine was 50,000 per kilogram.
[25] During a drive though the Kensington Market with Lindsay in January 2002, Fernández who was unaware that his car was bugged by the police, saw a Sri Lankan immigrant whom he had recently beaten up.
[29] In the indictment, Fernández was charged with smuggling 100 kilograms of cocaine into Canada as part of a plot to take over the drug markets in Ontario in alliance with the Hells Angels.
[32] Despite his affair with the a female jail guard, his fiancée, the former stripper Ploianu showed up to offer him moral support while dressed in revealing shirt suit.
"[28] Justice Joseph Kenkel in his judgement stated that Fernández displayed "a level of marked sophistication in his criminal activity", but allowed him credit for the time served in jail which lessened his prison sentence by two years.
During this incident, you seemed to flaunt your well established ties to traditional organized crime in an effort to further intimidate the guard; this implies you remain connected to the same criminal lifestyle that enabled your considerable drug dealing activities".
[35] The same letter from the National Parole Board complained about Fernández's "considerable lack of process" on rehabilitation and his commitment to "an inherently violent drug subculture".
[37] Fernández soon left Spain to visit Panama, Ecuador and Peru to set up drug deals for the Rizzuto family to import cocaine into Italy.
[41] Sorci used an untranslatable Italian phrase buttana di tua sorella (literally "whore your sister", i.e someone who has done something amazing) to describe Fernández who was capable of prodigious feats of strength and stamina at the local gym.
[1] An Italian prosecutor told Adrian Humphreys, the crime correspondent of The National Post, "He was taking over in the Cosa Nostra family of Bagheria due to his tight links with the boss, Sergio Flamia.
[43] Fernández frequently called a man known as "Danny" due to a court order, a thuggish "cement head" in Toronto whom continued to represent the Rizzuto family in Ontario.
[44] Fernández was fond of flashing his golden Rolex watch, which he proudly noted was a gift from Rizzuto as a way of showing that he was a powerful man in Sicily.
[44] Fernández was involved in smuggling OxyContin into Canada and frequently spoke on the phone with organized crime figures in the greater Toronto area and in Bagheria.
[46] On 31 October 2012, Fernández was recorded by a carabinieri bug talking about smuggling OxContin into Canada saying he wanted to find some doctors willing to supply OxyContin (which was still legal in Italy) to him by writing up false prescriptions.
[48] On 25 March 2013, a Toronto man known only as "David" due to a court order arrived in Palermo and Fernández discussed with him in English a plan to smuggle in guns from Italy into Canada.
[47] Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of the Toronto Star and the Mafia expert Antonio Nicaso, wrote that Fernández was a pathological liar with delusions of grandeur and it was quite possible that his claims to be a "made man" were fabrications designed to make him appear more powerful to his Canadian friend.
[51] On 9 April 2013, Fernández and Pimentel went for a meeting with Pietro Scaduto at the Bar Diva just outside of Palermo to discuss a plan to sell marijuana in the university town of Perugia.
[53] On 19 April 2013, Carbone tried to sell Fernández's prized golden Rolex watch which had an inscription saying it was a gift from Rizzuto to a jeweler on the Via Paolo Emiliani Giudici in Palermo for €4,000.