Johnny Papalia: Ontario’s Most Notorious MAFIA BOSS
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2022
- Johnny Joseph Papalia, aka "The Enforcer" or "Johnny Pops" was the most feared Ontario mob boss many decades ago. He was the head of the Papalia Crime Family in Hamilton, and was even connected to the New York Buffalo Crime Family, and the infamous French Connection smuggling ring. This video also talks about, Kenneth Murdock, Musitano Crime Family, Rizzuto Crime Family, Walter Stadnick, Hells Angels and Satans Choice.
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I lived around the corner from Pops . He was so good to us . My children spent quite a bit of time at his home . He taught them to stay out of trouble . He even told them that he had gone to prison for breaking the law .
Lol!
@@haleypoole9081 Lol I know them personally. They're human waste. They're nothing like the ones you see on Hollywood. Those guys are badass. These ones are psychopathic and don't have an inkling of unique personality to them
ALL GOOD, UNTIL U PISS them OFF.
@@christopherwelch136 St.Basil's ?🥅🏒
@@stockloc people think of the mafia and think The Godfather when really it's a lot more Sopranos.
I’m from New York City and have ran into dozens of mob guys (from my young generation) and let me tell ya, the Canadians have had bigger balls for the last 20 years. Not even close
Ok moe.
What part of Brooklyn you from?
Lol not much from this young generation is good or has balls… they might identify as a cat or a toothbrush with made up pronouns 😂
@@frankbasile3662 Bronx. But if I go to Brooklyn I’m in bayridge. The Canadians still whack each other out in broad daylight light and get away with it.
Lmao yea no they don’t I’m Canadian
As an American, I'm really enjoying your channel, learning about all of these north-of-the-border gangsters we don't hear much or anything about down here.
Thank you!
The Hamilton mob was (and still is) tied closely to the Buffalo mob.
@@sdot5389 sadly they are much weaker since the protector of the city was killed. I miss when it was old men in suits who you would never know where anything other then kind grandfather's who are very caring and not gangbangers robbing raping and killing innocents. Everyone's entitled to an opinion but I miss when mafia was bigger and ran the city. I'm very fine having rival groups getting murdered when half the people in Hamilton are either homeless or bloods/crips gang banging. For anyone curious walk down Barton anytime after dark.
Most of them aren't really gangsters
FACTZ
13k views in 12 hours?? 60k+ subscribers?? That’s amazing man. You’re growing really fast and you deserve it all. Good for you :)
its a channel about something in ontario in particular, its gonna blow up
Great video! My dad had Johnny pops as a dialysis patient in the 80’s. Also another thing that played a part in his death was that one of his Toronto based guys named peg leg mora supposedly borrowed 7.5 million from the rizzutos and then the papila mob refused to pay it back and allegedly Carmen barrillio was heard on a wire tap saying “f*ck them they can’t touch us” so that $250,000 he lent musitano more than likely was apart of that. Either way I just love seeing videos on Canadian based guys especially being from the Hamilton area, you really do a amazing job making these videos
Would love more ontario videos!
being from steel city i love learning about how many of the legends ran the city, you deserve more views homie
im from hammer too and this was surprising as fuck. I didn't think Hamilton was known for anything.
ha
Pierre Burton was a legendary columnist and broadcaster.He was for years the most entertaining political pundit I ever listened to and he wasn’t afraid to go after anyone.He along with Charles Templeton broadcast a daily monologue on the latest political issues on 590 CKEY out of Toronto Ontario( it is now an all sports channel) in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
Charles Templeton...there's a name I haven't heard in along time. Billy Graham's old friend who turned atheist. What a strange story.
Pierre Berton (not Burton) was a great author as well. I know him from his appearances on Front Page Challenge on the CBC, always with his bow tie. He also came out right before his death and admitted he was a marijuana smoker for 40 years. Look up the video where he teaches Rick Mercer how to properly roll a joint.
Wow, even got his teen medical records. Epic reporting.
This is the first I've seen of your channel I have subscribed and look forward to seeing more great job
Great video. Your research is incredible.
Made my Sunday much better!
Love your work HC. Quality content!
Well done as usual.
Great video! I was born and raised in Hamilton, and Pat Musitano used to live down the street from me lol looking forward to seeing more videos!
Damn that was good. Keep going way back. I heard Winnipeg was wild back in the prohibition era.
Love your work mate 🇦🇺
This channel is a godsend finally a channel on Canadian criminal and mafia history
Except for the fact that a lot of what this guy says is not true.
First 2 videos of yours I've seen are unique and new to me, which is such a rarity being a true crime junkie. Subscribed 👍
Johnny was always nice to me! He use to buy the neighborhood ice cream when I was a kid! He use to let me test the video games and keep all the change that got stuck in them. I lived on Railway street for years and he was always nice to me.
@@harley187 lmao I lived at 27 Railway. My mom use to iron Johnny's shirts. Think I'm bullshitting? Ask around!
@@iTzYoMasterXX johnny your stepdad
You'd be less likely to whack him when you grew up. Did he offer you a job?
@@leolv520 hahaha No.
Just because you are nice to some people and give to charity, I hope you guys realize that it does not justify a life of crime that threatens, oppresses and kills other people to gain status and power? Why would anybody want to do business with a guy or be friends with a guy who does not respect his friends and business partners when he sleeps with their girlfriends or wives? Perhaps some of these women participated willing, but even if they did, I doubt that their partners would willing accept it and if they did do it willing their partners would probably dump them. And please to not tell me what these guys are doing is justified because they are fighting against corrupt governments and authorities. Yes, there is corruption in governments and authorities but, I do not think becoming a criminal and trying to enforce justice in criminal ways that continues to harm people and communities is the way to do it.
love your work
I liked this informative video. Thank you and keep it up please.
Dope video💯 should do more in ontario
Another great video my guy Keep up the great work….
P.S. …. I know you’ve got a frank Lenti video coming… that’s gonna be a goons one… at least 25 minutes…
Thank you!
Yes yes it’s about damn time bro I’m loving it Ontario all the way more n more Ontario plz
Love watching these vids while high. Makes it feel like I’m in it too 😂
Great video love seeing the history of hamilton love this city and growing up siclian in this city was one of the greatest memory's ;) so many story's and such great history here my nonno tells me so many story's. Certain people's name is very well respected still until today here.
Go back to school. Your grammar is beyond sad.
another great video
I lived in Hamilton for a few years when I went to university. I heard vague stories about the mafia, but had no idea stuff like this had happened there!
By the looks of that ukrainian flag you're displaying.... You also have zero clue what's going on over there as well.
👀Bruh you SMOKEDTTT it as per usual.
Great show ☺️
Man I've never heard a Canadian pronunciate Guelph like that, you say it like I did when I first moved here from Tulsa. Canadians always corrected me real quick.
No one pronounces Guelph the way he did. In fact so many of the Italian names are pronounced wrong the mob might place a hit on him.
We also don’t say Toronto like that lol,
We don’t pronounce the second “t” it’s “Trono”
Naw man.
Livi’s Tanks It’s not “Trono” we pronounce it Torono!’
@@LivsTanks As someone who lives in Toronto, I don't even know what the other way of saying it is lol
I grew up in Hamilton , my friend lived on Railway Street at the time Johnny Papila was murdered, Hamilton Wentworth Police had the command unit bus there for weeks, we had to go around crime scene tape to play in central park. He used to give us a 5 dollar bill everytime he seen us playing in the street out front of his house
Is his house still there?
@@skeena59 as far as I know it's still standing
Thanks for the history lesson
R.I.P. Good work. My thanks to you.
very nicely done.... my uncle Kaljo was called by Max to come over the very day he shot through the door if Kaljo hadn't been slow getting away from work he would have been killed... my uncle worked for Max's brother who was the actual Bluestein Boss. Many years later my ex WWII special forces father was heavily acquainted with Volpe as a "contractor" small entertaining world sometimes... have you done a vid on the Commisso Bros and Racco? that was quite the crew and went against "pops"
Small world is right, my grandfather ran tightly with Fred Gabourie and Jack Weaver who participated in Max's beating. Left in a mass mob exodus to Hollywood FL in the 80s and remained a life long sub contractor until his death in 2018.
Did the Commisso Bros own the grocery store?
they had a bakery which still exists today
He was good friends with my grandfather my whole family is buried next to him. He would drop off cookies and stuff when I was a baby. He gifted my grandfather a Rolex watch and one day when he went in to get it serviced they told him it was stolen lol.
He was really good with the kids in Hamilton, always buying us ice cream and popsicles.
My grandpa would tell me how this old man walking around in some small town along the north shore of Lake Superior was some hit man for the mafia. He was always in a suit and tie and never worked. lol :)
Thx for the upload dude, good video. That being said; peel back from the mic....
I lived right around the corner from barilaros house and was walking home with his two twin daughters the day he was killed...I remember seeing the yellow tape as we approached their house and they started running and screaming...was not tell years later I realized what happened that day...still feel bad for the girls!
That was a good one, should delve into the Galloway Boys in Toronto
doesn't matter how much charity he used in later life. He earned that money by violence, threats and theft. He was just trying to ease his guilt before he croaked
So, you must have known Johnny Pops then to be able to state that he was just trying to ease his guilt before he croaked.
@@drew6194 It's a common and predictable motive; testosterone levels drop, especially as you pass middle age, and you start contemplating the legacy you're leaving behind for your grandchildren. Aside from that, he was likely attempting to dodge what he viewed as an unpleasant, flame-filled afterlife...
What should he have done with it?
It’s better to go to charity then it is burned or given to the government.
@@drew6194you’re an absolute clown
And you know that how?
Just saw your channel n now I'm binge watching your videos keep up the good work u got a new subscriber btw nice voice 👌
ever notice that every mafia/gangster documentary boasts : " most feared "most violent" 'Most dominant" .....anything to get you to watch
I’ve surprisingly never heard of this guy. I knew about the Rizzutos. Nicolo and Vito would go the Italian restaurant my grandmother worked at. She said they were always nice and good tippers
When the Musitano brothers murdered Pops, they literally signed their own death certificates. Pops was well respected in the mob underworld in Canada and the U.S.
To bad The RIZZUTOS ended up taking out pops and the Mustiano brothers. As Claudio Ranieri The man behind the mustiano hits was a Rizzuto solider. Rizzutos reign supreme, they told New York to fuck off in the 90s and crushed NDRANGHETA In a war here
@@mafiaMk87 Really? I thought it was the Lupino-Violi Family that took out the Musitanos?
Update: I looked into it a bit. It was Daniele Ranieri, not Claudio (Claudio Ranieri is a famous football/soccer coach). Apparently yes, Daniele Ranieri was the Rizzuto crew boss in Ontario. According to newspaper reports, he was a suspect in planning the Angelo Musitano hit. Though he himself had left Canada two years before the hit, on the run for other crimes he was wanted for, first for Cuba and then Mexico (where he was later killed). However, there are also reports, for instance according to veteran Canadian mob reporter James Dubro, as reported in the Toronto Sun, that Domenico Violi of the Lupino-Violi Family ordered that hit (note that though often referred to as the Lupino or Lupino-Violi Family, it is in fact the Hamilton faction of the Buffalo NY Family, of which Domenico Violi is the current underboss). The idea is that the Lupinos were making a move against the Musitanos to take their Hamilton rackets, but I have also read as revenge for the killings when the Musitanos were coming up under the protection of the Rizzutos, including the killing of Johnny Pops Papalia, who was also part of the Buffalo Family (as referenced by our original commenter Walter Moise here).
It’s an interesting one. Could it have been a Lupino-Rizzuto combined effort? Though the Rizzutos had originally backed the Musitanos, it seems like they had a falling out - according to Wikipedia, something to do with the Rizzutos not supporting Angelo’s wife and kids while he was inside, and the Rizzutos being upset about the level of tax the Musitanos were charging to funnel cocaine over the border into the US. Sounds like relations were just souring in general. Plus, the hitman in the Angelo Musitano hit, Michael Cudmore, was a known associate of Rizzuto crew boss Daniele Ranieri (which is presumably why he was a suspect). So perhaps the Lupinos got the okay from the Rizzutos to carry out the hit, and they also gave them access to Cudmore to carry it out? Or something like that? Cosa Nostra families do cooperate all the time.
@@willmosse3684 the Musitano's were taken out by Luppino family through Tony Iavarone who stepped up while Violi brothers were locked up. He is now a big player, he paid the price of losing his brother. Musitano was desperate on his last stand took out Albert, Tony's brother as revenge for the hit on his brother Angelo, he also took out CeCe Luppino son of Rocco, again an act of desperation and a final fuck you to all his enemies.
@@willmosse3684 Daniel Tomassetti grew up with Tony Iavarone's son...
Tomassetti and Cudmore were basically used as pawns, Musitano still yielded enough power to find them in Mexico...
@@teggianosalerno5050 no they weren’t the Rizzutos took them out
Wen I was little I lived in Toronto and I use to cut an older man's grass all summer and shovel his snow in the winter. Every birthday he'd give me $300. Found out later in life he was a mobster I only knew him as Sam can't spell his last name. My mom and dad knew he was a Mobster but they never worried about it he seemed like a regular guy.
@sammypiscione7371
Capo means captain so essentially he ran his own crew but because of being located in Canada he was treated more like a boss. He still had to kick up to the Buffalo boss and get his permission on certain things (like drugs).
Need more about Hamilton broski, I fuck wit ya channel 🔥💯💯 905
Born and raised in Hamilton. We have two cab companies. It’s Well known Blue cab is still run by Montréal Mafia Rizzuto Crime family.
New Hood chronicles and the mob reporter all in the same hour. Fkn eh!!
Eye for an eye. No questions.
The outfit moved to Canada in 80’s actually. And we’re followed soon after by the motorcycle clubs who they did business with. It was done in a way to try and separate themselves as much as possible from the issues the New York and Chicago outfits had.
The American run syndicates pretty much all fled to Canada to try and avoid the FBI and the RICO act.
It worked for a long time too.
The mob in Canada, and the sets in America are almost one in the same when it comes to power.
No they aren't
Your an idiot have no clue what the fuck you are talking about
Keep posting more on the Papalia family
I was only 12 when pops got taken out 37 now been in Hamilton all my life
I remember just recently Angelo got taken out 2017 and pat 2020 the musitano brothers
Crazy stuff been waiting for a doc on pops
Wonder who's running Hamilton 2023
i would listen to you guys’ storys’ in this comment section for daaayyss!! very interesting
My grandfather and his Parkdale crew were involved with Pops along with Fred Gabourie & Jack Weaver. Pops married my great uncles ex wife Janette whom I believe passed in 2020.
Freddy Gabe was my uncle for a spell. Who was your grandfather?
my grandfather had a convenience store in parkdale in the 70s
family food fair it was called
Hey, would love to know more about Janette if you know anything about her as I am somehow related to her and I don't know how!
Great job man!
Ended in a parking lot with one to the head one to the chest....
Mobsters have long memories. People in the north end loved Johnny Pops. RIP.
I can see his old penthouse as I speak.
* this video is not meant to glorify crime *
…” he was convicted of burglary but fortunately received a light sentence”. 😂
I went to school with his grandson, lovely family and solid dude
More on the Papalia family please 💯💯
Nothing wrong with J.Pops. He treated our family very well. He was especially kindly toward my mother....then again, she was a head turner.
PROPER CAPO 💯🇨🇦🇮🇹
you should do one on vic catroni
What’s crazy is papalia and musitano family houses are basically around the corner from each other.
Can't sleep with others wives... clearly thats a death sentence right there... he was so rich his family still has money.. this is saying a lot !! Gr8 documentary. Wish it was longer. 🙏🇨🇦🙏
YES YES YES!!! PLEASE MORE ONTARIO! MORE MORE! LOL.....PLEASE
There was no Toronto-Dominion Bank in 1944. The Bank of Toronto and the Dominion Bank of Canada merged in 1955.
I walk by Papalia's grave everyday when I walk my dog, very interesting video. Pat Musitano, who ordered Papalia's kiling was murdered just a block from my house 3 years ago.
He was a really nice man. I had the privilege of meeting him on more then 1 occasion. Was always about respect. Hamilton is a real city where you best learn respect real quick.
Mr. New Orleans is a good book I read about a pimp from New Orleans that came up n around Carlos Marcello and his Family and talks about interactions with Carlos and many of the mafia and underworld players of 20th century New Orleans I don't know how accurate it is but I found it highly entertaining and a good read. Written by Matthew Randazzo and the man the books about Frenchy Broillette.
Angelo and Pat, Johnny's killers, were finally liquidated over the last few years. Payback
Perhaps an update for the end of your video?
Excellent documentary with thorough research and clear presentation. I would however, hire a different voice over artist to narrate to make the production marketable for broadcast.
One of my best friends growing up is a great nephew of Jonny Papalia. His mother is a Papalia and she is barely 5’0 tall
How did y’all meet?? Did y’all go to the same school? If so what school?
@@Josephpaps went to school together in a small town about 2 hours North of Toronto, his mother grew up in Hamilton in the 80’s
@@Watchdog99 That’s crazy, pretty cool tbh tho, but WOW. That’s interesting af
Was not just NYC.... was Chicago all over fams from all over. !!
Hood Chronicles is the Boss of the Canadian crime scene
@16:21. 😂 that GTA5 sound lol
Papalia family today is aligned with the Luppinos same as always and they are still around today in Hamiton/Gta/Niagara
More on Johnny pops Papalia please
I remember when he got popped in downtown Hamilton 😮
Do one on the comissos bombing!
I did repo on restaurant equipment in Hamilton in the 80s never had a repo on POPs l am glad it would have been scary
"aquire syphilis" that part made me die, funny way of wording it
Does kinda sound like he bought it at the market, doesn’t it?
Trump's long untreated problem.
I remember when Johnny was hit outside his house near James North - he was just an old man at that point. Revenge never dies in the mob, I guess.
Nice
can you do one on my great great uncle Blaise Diesbourg who worked for Al Capone ?
Hamilton is still run by the mafia :(...
Yea, the Buffalo Mob
@@danevertt3210 Yup, Maggadino family collects tribute from all the corruption and crime here
Guess the La Nova Pizzeria is moving big now, huh 😂
Do you mean Pizza Nova?@@antoinesilva1527
Siiiiiiiiick. Myyy guuuy
My bro ean with this crew for awhile , Ended up doing 10 years....
I use to work for Baldy at his booze can on Parliament St. He was a bouncer at the Gerald hotel
Babe wake up, Hood Chronicles just posted
Cheesed
Thx bep ❤
I used to do duct cleaning, and one day, we had to do a house in the north end of Hamilton nice normal looking house from the outside but the inside was super nice marble floors the whole 9 yards. The house turned out to be owned by the mistress Stefano Magaddino and their son. The house had pictures of Magaddino all over the place. The lady was so nice she made us food and tried to tip us for our work. we even met the son who looked like a stereotypical mobster. I'm not sure if he was, but he told us before leaving the house to make sure we did an excellent job.
Not a chance in hell Maggadino gave approval for heroin in 1958 .
H was around well before 1958 son. Guess again.
I guess you knew Maggadino to be so sure?
@@drew6194 he was my grandfathers uncle on his mothers sisters nephews brother in law coworkers side .
@@tomasmccarthy3060 Alberto Agueci was murder in late 1961. He and his brother were Toronto mobsters in the Buffalo Family that solely dealt heroin for Maggadino.
I think it’s safe to say Maggadino made good money selling drugs in the late 50’s
Barton and Sherman, grew up among the players.
a mob boss was shot and killed as well as his bodyguard close to my house in Ontario
Hey buddy ... how’d he rob a Toronto Dominion bank in 1944 when the bank known as Toronto Dominion didn’t exist until its merger of the Bank of Toronto and Bank of Dominion in 1955 !!!
He must of robbed one of them at that time.
I went to school with Carmen's daughter in Niagara Falls. Shit was crazy back then