Pietro "Peter" Scarcella (Italian: [ˈpjɛːtro skarˈtʃɛlla]; born 12 July 1950) is an Italian-Canadian mobster based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, linked to the Sicilian Rizzuto crime family of Montreal, Quebec.
In April 2004, Scarcella devised an assassination attempt of Modica in a North York California Sandwiches shop, but only left an innocent victim, Louise Russo, paralyzed.
[2][3] During a conversation on 31 March 1981, Commisso told Kirby that he needed the approval of an unnamed higher authority before he could give the orders to kill Volpe.
"[3] Kirby later testified against Rocco Remo and Cosimo Commisso in 1982, and were arrested by the RCMP and charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
[4] Scarcella moved up in Volpe's organization, having a hand in running the gambling and loan-sharking operations, while also working on schemes where they would be paid kickbacks from both the union and the developers for negotiating construction contracts.
[2] On 29 January 2002, Juan Ramon Fernandez, the Toronto agent of the Rizzuto family, was recorded in a wiretapped phone call to the Hells Angel Steven "Tiger" Lindsay discussing having Scarcella murder Constantin "Big Gus" Alvizos, whom Fernandez accused of stealing $600,000 from the Rizzuto family.
[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.
[2] Delle Donne worked with police for 13 months wearing wiretaps, and on April 14, 2005, Scarcella, Peretz, Christoforou and Borrelli, were arrested.
[6][10] During the 2006 sentencing, Russo was paid $2 million in restitution from the mobsters to cover costs of rehabilitation and increased living expenses.