[2] Modica spurned loan sharking, which promised him a monthly income of about $30,000 and instead invested the money in the more profitable, but risky business of selling heroin.
[3] Modica's decision to move into selling heroin, a business reserved for the Hells Angels along with other members of the Rizzuto family caused much tension.
[1] In addition, Modica moved into debt collection and illegal gambling machines while showing little respect for the long established gangsters in Toronto.
[4] The principle investors in Platinum SportsBook were the Rizzuto family of Montreal, the London, Ontario chapter of the Hells Angels and various gangsters from York Region.
[6] On April 21, 2004, Modica visited a restaurant, California Sandwiches, in north Toronto along with his bodyguards Andrea Fortunato Carbone and Pietro Scaduto.
[7] Scarcella's nephew Antonio Borrelli had sprayed bullets with an AR-15 assault rifle from a van including Hells Angels bikers Paris Christoforou and Mark Peretz as the driver.
[6] Louise Russo, an innocent victim and mother of three children, was left paralyzed, while Modica and his associates escaped unscathed.
[10] Lorenzo Carbone, a Mafiosi who turned pentito testified that Modica's former bodyguard Pietro Scaduto was planning to have him killed once he was released from prison.