Vito Rizzuto: Street Gangs

Montreal Mob Dept: He had a reputation as a mediator who could sow detente among bikers, street gangs and other underworld rivals, but who could turn vicious at the drop of a fedora, according to CBC. This weekend, Vito Rizzuto, the onetime godfather of the Montreal Mob, will be released, and could even come home to Canada and for years, he was known as Montreal's "Teflon Don" as he ruled over the Canadian arm of the Sicilian Mafia, all the while building up a transatlantic criminal empire with seeming impunity. Then finally the law caught up with him, and he's spent the last eight years behind bars, most of it at a U.S. federal prison in Colorado, for his role in the 1981 murders of three Mafia lieutenants in New York. Vito Rizzuto, right, speaks with his attorney after a hearing in Montreal in 2004. Rizzuto will be released this week after serving eight years behind bars. Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.