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Vito Rizzuto: Rizzuto

Montreal Mafia Dept: MONTREAL - Vito Rizzuto has stepped into an unkown world after an eight-year prison stint, with his once-dominant alleged criminal empire decimated by setbacks and his own family devastated by tragedy, according to Winnipeg Free Press. A spokesman for the U.S. federal correctional institution in Florence said the 66-year year Rizzuto was freed around breakfast time, at 7:07 a.m. Spokesman Kim Nelson said he was then handed over to a United States Immigration and Customs unit and vito Rizzuto right , reputed head of the Montreal Mafia, speaks with his attorney Jean Salois after his hearing in Montreal on Feb. 6, 2004. RYAN REMIORZ / THE CANADIAN PRESS ARCHIVES The reputed Mafia boss was released from a prison in Colorado into the hands of American immigration authorities Friday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.