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107-731: Violi was born in Sinopoli , Calabria , Italy, in 1931; his father Domenico was the boss of the Violi clan in his hometown. Violi immigrated to Southern Ontario in 1951. He married Grazia Luppino, the daughter of the boss of the Luppino crime family in Hamilton . He later moved to Montreal where he became associated with the Calabrese Cotroni crime family, which controlled much of organized crime in Montreal. In

214-447: A 'scanning all-band receiver' because the system used an analog transmission system-like an ordinary radio transmitter. Instead, digital phones are harder to monitor because they use digitally encoded and compressed transmission. However the government can tap mobile phones with the cooperation of the phone company. It is also possible for organizations with the correct technical equipment to monitor mobile phone communications and decrypt

321-504: A bookmaking network in the Ottawa-Hull area that handled around $ 50,000 in bets per day, with 25 percent going to Violi. Obie also served as Cotroni's chief banker and financial adviser, responsible for laundering money. For Montreal's Expo 67 , Obront also helped the Cotronis land the meat and vending machine supply contract; most of the meat turned out to be tainted. Violi saw himself as

428-471: A satellite can be used to receive terrestrial transmissions with a power of a few milliwatts. Any sort of radio transmitter whose presence is suspected is detectable with suitable equipment. Conversation on many early cordless telephones could be picked up with a simple radio scanner or sometimes even a domestic radio. Widespread digital spread spectrum technology and encryption has made eavesdropping increasingly difficult. A problem with recording

535-479: A warrant to search a person. However, telephone tapping is the subject of controversy surrounding violations of this right. There are arguments that wiretapping invades a person's personal privacy and therefore violates their Fourth Amendment rights. On the other hand, there are certain rules and regulations, which permit wiretapping. A notable example of this is the Patriot Act , which, in certain circumstances, gives

642-415: A continuous circuit and disconnect the wires when the call ended). All other telephone services, such as call forwarding and message taking, were handled by human operators. The earliest wiretaps were extra wires — physically inserted to the line between the switchboard and the subscriber — that carried the signal to a pair of earphones and a recorder. Later, wiretaps were installed at the central office on

749-536: A conversation, which requires that it is expected to reveal evidence to a crime. State agents may record conversations, but must obtain a warrant to use them as evidence in court. The history of voice communication technology began in 1876 with the invention of Alexander Graham Bell 's telephone. In the 1890s, "law enforcement agencies begin tapping wires on early telephone networks". Remote voice communications "were carried almost exclusively by circuit-switched systems," where telephone switches would connect wires to form

856-420: A direct tap much better. Mobile phones are, in surveillance terms, a major liability. For mobile phones the major threat is the collection of communications data. This data does not only include information about the time, duration, originator and recipient of the call, but also the identification of the base station where the call was made from, which equals its approximate geographical location. This data

963-785: A history of presidential operations that had used surveillance on domestic and foreign political organizations. A difference between US wiretapping in the US and elsewhere is that, when operating in other countries, "American intelligence services could not place wiretaps on phone lines as easily as they could in the U.S." Also, in the US, wiretapping is regarded as an extreme investigative technique, while communications are often intercepted in some other countries. The National Security Agency (NSA) "spends billions of dollars every year intercepting foreign communications from ground bases, ships, airplanes and satellites". FISA distinguishes between U.S. persons and foreigners, between communications inside and outside

1070-564: A list of all calls to a specific number can be obtained by sorting billing records. A telephone tap during which only the call information is recorded but not the contents of the phone calls themselves, is called a pen register tap. For telephone services via digital exchanges, the information collected may additionally include a log of the type of communications media being used (some services treat data and voice communications differently, in order to conserve bandwidth). Conversations can be recorded or monitored unofficially, either by tapping by

1177-509: A loan or resolving a business dispute came with the understanding that he was entitled to favours in return. Ménard discovered, much to his shock, that after the owner of a pizzeria saw him talking with Violi in the street, he had refused to charge him for the pizza he just ordered, saying that any friend of Violi's was entitled to permanent free pizza from his pizzeria. In early July 1973, Violi paid an extended visit to Italy to see his first cousin and childhood friend, Domenico Barbino. Late on in

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1284-543: A mask, as he wished to remain anonymous, that he was forced at gunpoint to go to the basement of the Reggio Bar to see Violi. He testified, "I was suffering. We were making sacrifices, my wife more than I. Sometimes there were days when we had nothing to eat. I didn't want to sign them [the protection money cheques]. Paolo had a cigar in his mouth. He told me: 'Sign!'. I cried like a child. I had worked on my business for fifteen years and they ate it all." The businessman stated that

1391-543: A means to an end, a method. If you kill someone that you're trying to gather money from–unless you want to use him as an example–what the hell's the use use of killing a source of revenue?...That's not businesslike. Real smart guys don't kill until it absolutely has to be done." Ménard usually talked with Violi every Saturday morning over numerous cups of coffee. Ménard learned that he was a staunch federalist who detested Quebec separatism . Riots had erupted in September 1969 when

1498-447: A much more intelligent way...You want to know the difference? They [French-Canadian bank robbers] will kill you indiscriminately, for no reason, while Paolo would kill you if he had to for power and for position and for advantage. That's the difference...They'll [French-Canadian bank robbers] kill because they don't like you having a toothpick in your mouth. That's the difference here. Goddamn animals. Nothing else...Paolo will use killing as

1605-595: A party to record a conversation if one party to the conversation consented, but the Nevada Supreme Court issued two judicial opinions changing the law and requiring all parties to consent to the recording of a private conversation for it to be legal. It is considered better practice to announce at the beginning of a call that the conversation is being recorded. The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects privacy rights by requiring

1712-478: A premium price. On 31 July 1973, Violi met with Frank Cotroni who called the Popeyes "crazy, crazy, crazy...They've killed something like ten guys already!" It was agreed that Frank should handle the bikers while Violi would handle Angelo Faquino, the intermediary drug dealer. On 2 September 1973, Faquino was killed while walking down the street. Much to Violi's disgust, Frank spent too much time planning out an attack on

1819-560: A reply to parliament question no. 595 on scope, objectives and framework of the CMS has struck a balance between national security, online privacy and free speech informed that to take care of the privacy of citizens, lawful interception and monitoring is governed by the Section 5(2) of Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 read with Rule 419A of Indian Telegraph (Amendment) Rules, 2007 wherein oversight mechanism exists in form of review committee under chairmanship of

1926-493: A sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun. The first shot blasted off much of Violi's head and killed him instantly; nevertheless, the killer fired a second shot to further destroy Violi's head in a show of disrespect. The murder weapon was a Zardini shotgun, a rare type of handmade shotgun manufactured in the village of Zardini in Italy and which requires pellets larger than those designed for the standard shotgun size. The most distinctive feature of

2033-441: A second line and it is impossible to tell whether a line is being tapped. A well-designed tap installed on a phone wire can be difficult to detect. In some places, some law enforcement may be able to even access a mobile phone's internal microphone even while it isn't actively being used on a phone call (unless the battery is removed or drained). The noises that some people believe to be telephone taps are simply crosstalk created by

2140-516: A single bullet from a sniper's rifle struck him dead. Cotroni died of cancer on 16 September 1984. By the mid-1980s, the Rizzuto family emerged as Montreal's pre-eminent crime family after the turf war. After Paolo Violi's death, his widow and two sons, Domenico (Dom) and Giuseppe (Joe) moved to Hamilton, an area controlled by the Buffalo family and 'Ndrangheta families. A 2002 Halton Police report suggested

2247-581: A specific federal statute (FISA) and the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution . The President claimed his authorization was consistent with other federal statutes ( AUMF ) and other provisions of the Constitution, also stating that it was necessary to keep America safe from terrorism and could lead to the capture of notorious terrorists responsible for

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2354-434: A stab wound from Brigante. He was charged with manslaughter in a Welland court, but was acquitted , claiming it was self-defense, showing the stab wound as evidence. Violi testified at his trial that both he and Brigante were pimps and the dispute that led to the killing was about the control of a prostitute. However, it is believed that Brigante was murdered as part of a bloodfeud, with one policeman saying, "I'm sure [Violi]

2461-536: A steady steam of visitors at the Reggio Bar, mostly from New York and Hamilton. Ménard stated, "There would always be some big cars from the States and there would always be somebody there. All the time. It was like a parade. It was like a doctor's office with patients. You know, he'd be receiving in the afternoons. A car from New York. A car from New Jersey. A car from Ontario. God, all kinds of big, huge cars. They'd be parked. The guys would come in. Sometimes he'd greet them at

2568-407: A telephone conversation is that the recorded volume of the two speakers may be very different. A simple tap will have this problem. An in-ear microphone, while involving an additional distorting step by converting the electrical signal to sound and back again, in practice gives better-matched volume. Dedicated, and relatively expensive, telephone recording equipment equalizes the sound at both ends from

2675-519: A third party without the knowledge of the parties to the conversation or recorded by one of the parties. This may or may not be illegal, according to the circumstances and the jurisdiction. There are a number of ways to monitor telephone conversations. One of the parties may record the conversation, either on a tape or solid-state recording device, or they may use a computer running call recording software . The recording, whether overt or covert, may be started manually, automatically when it detects sound on

2782-408: A third party, often by covert means. The wire tap received its name because, historically, the monitoring connection was an actual electrical tap on an analog telephone or telegraph line. Legal wiretapping by a government agency is also called lawful interception . Passive wiretapping monitors or records the traffic, while active wiretapping alters or otherwise affects it. Lawful interception

2889-470: A very calm way, without too much force. All the while he was giving me advice about how I shouldn't open there. Then he started hitting me on the shoulders with a four-foot-long stick used to mix ice cream. And he kicked me in the face. I was bleeding from the mouth and I had a broken tooth and both eyes were blackened." Marchettini ended up selling his poolroom to a Violi associate who promptly shut it down. Another Italian immigrant businessman testified behind

2996-550: Is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria , located about 90 km southwest of Catanzaro and about 30 km northeast of Reggio Calabria . As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,303 and an area of 25.8 km². The municipality of Sinopoli contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Sinopoli inferiore and Sinopoli vecchio. Sinopoli borders

3103-726: Is immediately necessary to prevent an unlawful act that could cause serious harm to any person or to property. This was introduced by Rob Nicholson on February 11, 2013, and is also known as Bill C-55. The Supreme Court gave Parliament twelve months to rewrite a new law. Bill C-51 (also known as the Anti-Terrorism Act) was then released in 2015, which transformed the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from an intelligence-gathering agency to an agency actively engaged in countering national security threats. Legal protection extends to 'private communications' where

3210-726: Is most often used in Mafia murders. It remains unclear why the Zardini shotgun was chosen as the murder weapon over a normal shotgun, which would have been easily obtained in North America and would have much less costly after the murder weapon was disposed of. The most popular theory is that the Zardini lupara is associated with the Sicilian Mafia and it was the Sicilian Rizzuto's way of obliquely taking credit for Violi's murder. Violi's funeral

3317-401: Is officially strictly controlled in many countries to safeguard privacy ; this is the case in all liberal democracies . In theory, telephone tapping often needs to be authorized by a court , and is again in theory, normally only approved when evidence shows it is not possible to detect criminal or subversive activity in less intrusive ways. Oftentimes, the law and regulations require that

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3424-514: Is stored with the details of the call and has utmost importance for traffic analysis . It is also possible to get greater resolution of a phone's location by combining information from a number of cells surrounding the location, which cells routinely communicate (to agree on the next handoff—for a moving phone) and measuring the timing advance , a correction for the speed of light in the GSM standard. This additional precision must be specifically enabled by

3531-401: Is used to monitor websites that presumably contain dangerous or sensitive materials, and the people that access them. It is allowed in the US by the Patriot Act , but is considered a questionable practice by many. In Canada, anyone is legally allowed to record a conversation as long as they are involved in the conversation. The police must apply for a warrant beforehand to legally eavesdrop on

3638-626: The Commisso 'ndrina . In Quebec, Violi opened the Reggio Bar in Saint-Leonard in the mid-1960s, which he used as a base for extortion. Stefano Magaddino , the boss of the Buffalo family , saw Violi as his "beachhead" who would win Montreal for him from the rival Bonanno family . Violi was closely associated with Frank Cotroni and became known as "The Don of St. Leonard". In the 1960s and 1970s, Vic Cotroni used associate William "Obie" Obront to supervise

3745-710: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wanted to expand CALEA requirements to VoIP service.” The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled in August 2005 that “broadband-service providers and interconnected VoIP providers fall within CALEA's scope. Currently, instant messaging, web boards and site visits are not included in CALEA's jurisdiction. In 2007 Congress amended FISA to "allow

3852-955: The Federal Communications Commission was asked to clarify how the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) related to Internet service providers. The FCC stated that “providers of broadband Internet access and voice over Internet protocol (“VoIP”) services are regulable as “telecommunications carriers” under the Act.” Those affected by the Act will have to provide access to law enforcement officers who need to monitor or intercept communications transmitted through their networks. As of 2009, warrantless surveillance of internet activity has consistently been upheld in FISA court . The Internet Engineering Task Force has decided not to consider requirements for wiretapping as part of

3959-599: The Greek telephone tapping case 2004–2005 more than 100 mobile phone numbers belonging mostly to members of the Greek government, including the Prime Minister of Greece , and top-ranking civil servants were found to have been illegally tapped for a period of at least one year. The Greek government concluded this had been done by a foreign intelligence agency, for security reasons related to the 2004 Olympic Games , by unlawfully activating

4066-467: The September 11 attacks in 2001. In 2008, Wired and other media reported a lamplighter disclosed a "Quantico Circuit", a 45-megabit/second DS-3 line linking a carrier's most sensitive network in an affidavit that was the basis for a lawsuit against Verizon Wireless. The circuit provides direct access to all content and all information concerning the origin and termination of telephone calls placed on

4173-561: The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court , a court with secret proceedings, or in certain circumstances from the Attorney General without a court order. The telephone call recording laws in most U.S. states require only one party to be aware of the recording, while twelve states require both parties to be aware. In Nevada, the state legislature enacted a law making it legal for

4280-508: The abboccatoes [regions] will split and everyone will be on their own. I'm telling you that, in Montreal, we will be alone by ourselves." Violi's brash, cocky and arrogant approach and lack of respect for his elders did not make him friends in the underworld. In the early 1970s, Cotroni transferred the day-to-day activities of the family to his Calabrian compatriot Violi, a capodecina together with Nicolas Di Iorio, Frank Cotroni and Luigi Greco. Cotroni's role became more that of an adviser to

4387-527: The coupling of signals from other phone lines. Data on the calling and called number, time of call and duration, will generally be collected automatically on all calls and stored for later use by the billing department of the phone company. These data can be accessed by security services, often with fewer legal restrictions than for a tap. This information used to be collected using special equipment known as pen registers and trap and trace devices and U.S. law still refers to it under those names. Today,

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4494-567: The 1990s to the present, the majority of communications between fixed locations has been achieved by fiber. Because these fiber communications are wired, they are protected under U.S. law. In 1978, the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) created a "secret federal court" for issuing wiretap warrants in national security cases. This was in response to findings from the Watergate break-in, which allegedly uncovered

4601-474: The 30–300 GHz range to keep up with telephone technology compared to the 772 kHz systems used in the past. The transmitter may be powered from the line to be maintenance-free, and only transmits when a call is in progress. These devices are low-powered as not much power can be drawn from the line, but a state-of-the-art receiver could be located as far away as ten kilometers under ideal conditions, though usually located much closer. Research has shown that

4708-488: The Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) was invented by Wayne Howe and Dale Malik at BellSouth's Advanced Technology R&D group in 1995 and was issued as US Patent #5,590,171. Telephone services provided by cable TV companies also use digital switching technology. If the tap is implemented at a digital switch , the switching computer simply copies the digitized bits that represent the phone conversation to

4815-466: The CECO hearings proved damaging to Violi's reputation. One Montreal businessman, Mauro Marchettini, testified that Violi's younger brother, Francesco Violi, threatened his life for opening a poolroom close to the Reggio Bar owned by Violi as Francesco warned that his brother did not want competition. Marchettini testified that he went to a meeting with Francesco, who "...began slapping me in the face. He did it in

4922-412: The CECO hearings was a bugged phone call Violi had made to Cotroni in 1973 where, amid much laughter, he cheerfully confessed to attempted murder as he told his boss, "I shot the asshole three times. The papers didn't say so, but I'm telling you it was me, with another soldier, who went into the apartment. He was sleeping and boom, boom, I shot him three times." Violi's only regret was that he failed to kill

5029-418: The CECO hearings. Bianco testified that his area of expertise was robbing wedding presents, saying, "We mostly did Italian weddings. We cleaned out the house while the people were at church." Bianco's testimony was supported by a wiretapped phone call where Violi called him and his partner, Tony Teoli, "a pair of no-goods" who had only stolen "nothing but cheap stuff." Another piece of evidence introduced during

5136-593: The Cabinet Secretary at Central Government level and Chief Secretary of the State at the state government level. Section 5(2) also allows the government to intercept messages that are public emergencies or for public safety. In Pakistan, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is authorised by the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication to intercept and trace telecommunications, as stipulated under Section 54 of

5243-503: The Calabrian and Sicilian factions of the family began in 1973. Violi complained about the independent modus operandi of his Sicilian "underlings", Nicolò Rizzuto in particular. "He is going from one side to the other, here and there, and he says nothing to nobody, he is doing business and nobody knows anything," Violi said about Rizzuto. Violi asked for more " soldiers " from his Bonanno bosses, clearly preparing for war, and Violi's boss at

5350-538: The Cotroni family reported to him directly and that he had about 1,000 men under his command. A mystery witness at CECO who wore a mask testified that Violi is "all-powerful God. Paolo Violi is 1,000 men". A recording made by Ménard on 5 December 1973 showed that Violi was confident that his office was not bugged and he mocked the CECO inquiry, saying in a contemptuous tone, "They're running around, butting in, and their balls are in an uproar because they don't know anything." As

5457-865: The Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 shall not be issued except by an order made by the Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Home Affairs in the case of Government of India and by the Secretary to the State Government in-charge of the Home Department in the case of a state government. The government has set up the Centralized Monitoring System (CMS) to automate the process of lawful interception and monitoring of telecommunications technology. The government of India on 2015 December 2 in

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5564-670: The Nazis. This was done through an isolated rental property just outside of Paris . Keller's group became known to SOE (and later Allied military intelligence generally) as "Source K". They were later betrayed by a mole within the French resistance, and Keller was murdered in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945. The first computerized telephone switch was developed by Bell Labs in 1965; it did not support standard wiretapping techniques. In

5671-466: The Popeyes. On 20 August 1973, Natale "Joe Diamond" Evola , the boss of the Bonanno family, died of cancer. Violi went to New York to participate in the election for the new boss, and was overjoyed when the candidate he supported, Philip "Rusty" Rastelli , won. Rastelli promised to send more men to Montreal to replace those in prison, and Violi felt confident of Rastelli's support. A power struggle between

5778-590: The Saint-Leonard school board changed the language of instruction for Italian Canadian children from English to French. Several Italian Canadian school teachers who continued to teach in English received death threats, and Violi told Ménard that he provided bodyguards to the teachers. Ménard recalled, "God, he hated the PQ party! I think he hated them more than the cops. He just hated them! He thought they were destroying Canada...He

5885-492: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that wiretapping (or “intercepting communications”) requires a warrant in Katz v. United States . In 1968 Congress passed a law that provided warrants for wiretapping in criminal investigations. In the 1970s, optical fibers become a medium for telecommunications. These fiber lines, "long, thin strands of glass that carry signals via laser light," are more secure than radio and have become very cheap. From

5992-526: The U.S., and between wired and wireless communications. Wired communications within the United States are protected, since intercepting them requires a warrant, but there is no regulation of US wiretapping elsewhere. In 1994, Congress approved the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which “requires telephone companies to be able to install more effective wiretaps. In 2004,

6099-618: The Violi brothers became affiliated with the Luppino crime family, later known as the Luppino-Violi crime family. Violi was born in Sinopoli , Calabria on 6 February 1931. He was born into the mob; his father Domenico Violi was the head of the 'Ndrangheta Violi clan in Sinopoli. Violi later immigrated to Southern Ontario in 1951. On 24 May 1955, he fatally shot Natale Brigante in Toronto , sustaining

6206-588: The Violi brothers were affiliated with the Luppino-Violi crime family in Hamilton started by their grandfather Giacomo Luppino. Domenico Violi subsequently became the underboss of the Buffalo crime family in 2017; the first Canadian to hold the second-highest position in the American Mafia . Sinopoli Sinopoli ( Italian pronunciation: [siˈnɔːpoli] ; Calabrian Greek : Σινόπολις, Ξενόπολις )

6313-418: The Zardini shotgun is that the two barrels are not placed horizontally as is normally the case, but rather vertically, making the Zardini an easily recognizable shotgun. The lupara had been sawed off so closely as to resemble an oversized pistol, and to fire such a weapon with dexterity without losing control required an assassin accustomed to firing such a gun. The Zardini shotgun is an expensive shotgun and

6420-411: The audio. To the mobile phones in its vicinity, a device called an " IMSI-catcher " pretends to be a legitimate base station of the mobile phone network, thus subjecting the communication between the phone and the network to a man-in-the-middle attack . This is possible because, while the mobile phone has to authenticate itself to the mobile telephone network, the network does not authenticate itself to

6527-403: The bikers as he was very concerned about the possibility of innocent by-standers being killed and never actually carried out the assignment. In a conversation recorded by a police wiretap, Violi was heard saying, "He [Frank] should have gone into the club, clients or no clients, lined everybody up against the wall and rat-a-tat-tat." On 14 September 1973, a Cotroni family piciotto , Toni Di Genova,

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6634-633: The communications of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The wiretaps remained in place until April 1965 at his home and June 1966 at his office. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent entry of the United States into World War II , the U.S. House of Representatives held hearings on the legality of wiretapping for national defense. Significant legislation and judicial decisions on the legality and constitutionality of wiretapping had taken place years before World War II. However, it took on new urgency at that time of national crisis. The actions of

6741-636: The crime investigated must be at least of a certain severity. Illegal or unauthorized telephone tapping is often a criminal offense. In certain jurisdictions, such as Germany and France , courts will accept illegally recorded phone calls without the other party's consent as evidence, but the unauthorized telephone tapping will still be prosecuted. In the United States , under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act , federal intelligence agencies can get approval for wiretaps from

6848-507: The daughter of Giacomo, in Hamilton with Vincenzo "Vic" Cotroni , boss of the Cotroni family , serving as the best man at the wedding. Cotroni served as the godfather to one of Violi's children with Papalia and Paul Volpe both serving as godfathers to the other children. Further expanding his reach was that the Commisso brothers married another of Luppino's daughters, thereby making an alliance with

6955-479: The door. And they'd be on their way after a bit." Violi played the role of a community leader within the Italian Canadian community in Montreal, serving as a banker, judge and community mediator. He was known for providing free ice cream to children at the Reggio Bar, and he would never permit anyone to swear in front of children. However, his apparent generosity was self-interested as any favour he provided such as

7062-483: The equivalent of a rat by incompetence". In 1977, Rizzuto and Violi met face-to-face in the home of a Montreal resident for a last-ditch effort to resolve their differences, according to a police report. But the peace talks failed, and most of the Rizzuto family fled to Venezuela. This led to a mob war in Montreal that began with the murder of Violi's consigliere , Pietro Sciara, on Valentine's Day in 1976; Sciara's body

7169-406: The following municipalities: Cosoleto , Oppido Mamertina , Roccaforte del Greco , Roghudi , San Procopio , Sant'Eufemia d'Aspromonte , Scilla . This Calabrian location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Wiretap Wiretapping , also known as wire tapping or telephone tapping , is the monitoring of telephone and Internet -based conversations by

7276-553: The frames that held the incoming wires. In late 1940, the Nazis tried to secure some telephone lines between their forward headquarters in Paris and a variety of Fuhrerbunkers in Germany. They did this by constantly monitoring the voltage on the lines, looking for any sudden drops or increases in voltage indicating that other wiring had been attached. However, the French telephone engineer Robert Keller succeeded in attaching taps without alerting

7383-431: The funeral, though Carmine Galante sent a funeral wreath. Vic Cotroni attended the funeral, but refused to speak to Violi's grieving family. Edwards wrote about Cotroni's role in the murder that he "...gave his grudging approval, knowing a refusal might add his name to the assassins' hit list. Vic Cotroni was not one to buck New York and any hit on Violi had to be sanctioned from the United States." Although Nicolò Rizzuto

7490-426: The future boss of the Cotroni family and in private he mocked Cotroni as a weak leader. Violi told Luppino in a phone conversation that the police listened into, "I already know that Cotroni is weak...I told him, Compare ["Godfather"], I am with you 100 percent, but only if you are sincere. Otherwise, I won't be 100 percent with you." In another wiretapped phone conversation with Luppino, Violi berated Bill Bonanno ,

7597-399: The government permission to wiretap citizens. In addition, wiretapping laws vary per state , making it even more difficult to determine whether the Fourth Amendment is being violated. In Canadian law, police are allowed to wiretap without the authorization from a court when there is the risk for imminent harm, such as kidnapping or a bomb threat . They must believe that the interception

7704-512: The government regarding wiretapping for the purpose of national defense in the current war on terror have drawn considerable attention and criticism. In the World War II era, the public was also aware of the controversy over the question of the constitutionality and legality of wiretapping. Furthermore, the public was concerned with the decisions that the legislative and judicial branches of the government were making regarding wiretapping. In 1967,

7811-454: The government to monitor more communications without a warrant". In 2008 President George W. Bush expanded the surveillance of internet traffic to and from the U.S. government by signing a national security directive. The NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–2007) controversy was discovered in December 2005. It aroused much controversy after then President George W. Bush admitted to violating

7918-486: The interception of communications for law enforcement purposes under the terms of Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). When telephone exchanges were mechanical, a tap had to be installed by technicians, linking circuits together to route the audio signal from the call. Now that many exchanges have been converted to digital technology, tapping is far simpler and can be ordered remotely by computer. This central office switch wiretapping technology using

8025-499: The kidnappers of Getty and he was constantly on the phone with his cousin in Montreal, it is believed that Violi was in some way involved in the kidnapping. After Getty finally paid the $ 17 million ransom for his grandson, Violi laundered the ransom money for Barbino via investments in Montreal. On 10 July 1973, the Popeyes motorcycle gang killed Mario Ciambrone and Salvatore Sergi of the Cotroni family for selling them low quality heroin at

8132-642: The late 1970s, boss Vincenzo Cotroni transferred the family's day-to-day activities to Violi, and a mob war soon broke out between the Calabrians and the Sicilian faction led by Nicolò Rizzuto . The war resulted in the murder of Violi on 22 January 1978, as well as his brothers, as the Sicilian Rizzuto crime family emerged as the preeminent crime family in Montreal by the early 1980s. After Violi's death, his widow and two sons, Domenico and Giuseppe moved to Hamilton;

8239-449: The law. Now, even in death, it would appear that he has accomplished the same." Manno received a seven-year sentence after pleading guilty to conspiring to kill Violi. Rizzuto confidant Agostino Cuntrera was also prosecuted, receiving a five-year sentence in relation to Violi's murder. The war ended on 17 October 1980, when Rocco Violi, the last of Violi's brothers, was seated, for a family meal, at his kitchen table in his Montreal home when

8346-530: The lawful interception subsystem of the Vodafone Greece mobile network. An Italian tapping case which surfaced in November 2007 revealed significant manipulation of the news at the national television company RAI . Many state legislatures in the United States enacted statutes that prohibited anyone from listening in on telegraph communication. Telephone wiretapping began in the 1890s, and its constitutionality

8453-447: The line ( VOX ), or automatically whenever the phone is off the hook. The conversation may be monitored (listened to or recorded) covertly by a third party by using an induction coil or a direct electrical connection to the line using a beige box . An induction coil is usually placed underneath the base of a telephone or on the back of a telephone handset to pick up the signal inductively. An electrical connection can be made anywhere in

8560-452: The man, but he took consolation from the fact that "They say he's still got two [bullets in the head] and they can't get them out. But he'll remain crippled...It's worse than being dead." Violi then went on to complain at length that his 9mm handgun was not large enough for his tastes and he wanted a .22-calibre handgun for the next time that he shot someone. Violi was a braggart who claimed to Cotroni that he committed crimes done by others and

8667-511: The name was changed to Bar Jean-Talon. Just under a year after Francesco Violi's murder, on 22 January 1978, Paolo Violi was shot in the head at close range with a lupara in the Bar Jean-Talon after being invited to play cards by Vincenzo Randisi. As Violi sat playing cards, two men wearing ski masks stormed in while one shouted "everybody to the floor!" while the other one raced up to Violi to shoot him dead from behind at very close range with

8774-400: The participants would not expect unintended persons to learn the content of the communication. A single participant can legally, and covertly record a conversation. Otherwise police normally need a judicial warrant based upon probable grounds to record a conversation they are not a part of. In order to be valid wiretap authorization must state: 1) the offense being investigated by the wiretap, 2)

8881-475: The phone. There is no defense against IMSI-catcher based eavesdropping, except using end-to-end call encryption; products offering this feature, secure telephones , are already beginning to appear on the market, though they tend to be expensive and incompatible with each other, which limits their proliferation. Logging the IP addresses of users that access certain websites is commonly called "webtapping". Webtapping

8988-411: The police had observed that the three men often talked with Nicolò Rizzuto. The Montreal Gazette in an editorial condemned the plea bargains where it was declared, "For society to let people off with punishment this light-under a seven year term, a prisoner is eligible for parole after two-is almost to sanction the planning of executions...All this adult life, Paolo Violi worked to undermine respect for

9095-406: The police knew that this particular attempted murder was the work of someone else. The wiretap put Violi into the dilemma of having to confess to attempted murder or having to confess that he lied to his boss (a serious offense under the Mafia code); Violi chose the former during his testimony as he maintained that he really did shoot the man. One of Ménard's recordings had Violi say that 25 members of

9202-587: The process for creating and maintaining IETF standards. Typically, illegal Internet wiretapping is conducted via Wi-Fi connection to someone's Internet by cracking the WEP or WPA key, using a tool such as Aircrack-ng or Kismet . Once in, the intruder relies on a number of potential tactics, for example an ARP spoofing attack, allowing the intruder to view packets in a tool such as Wireshark or Ettercap . The first generation mobile phones ( c.  1978 through 1990) could be easily monitored by anyone with

9309-591: The protection money payments ruined his business and forced him into bankruptcy. Lino Simaglia, an Italian immigrant businessman, testified at CECO that Violi had visited him in 1971 and forced him to pay $ 1,000 per year in protection money. Simiglia testified that for Christmas 1971, "At Christmas, Violi called saying I had to give him a gift...$ 1,000 in cash. My business wasn't good. I couldn't afford to pay my debts or buy Christmas presents for my wife and children". One of Violi's "soldiers", Peter Bianco, who had turned Crown's evidence, testified against his former boss at

9416-418: The recordings were played in the inquiry room, Violi sat looking glum and stunned. During his own testimony, Violi portrayed himself as a victim and refused to answer any of the questions from the commissioners in a substantial manner. When convicted of contempt, Violi said, "I don't refuse to testify, but I have absolutely nothing to say to this court." The CEHO hearings destroyed Violi's reputation and paved

9523-463: The relevant Act, in July 2024. Under the authorization, ISI officers of at least grade 18, subject to periodic designation, are empowered to surveil calls and messages. The contracts or licenses by which the state controls telephone companies often require that the companies must provide access to tapping lines to law enforcement. In the U.S., telecommunications carriers are required by law to cooperate in

9630-453: The same month, John Paul Getty III , the so-called "golden hippie", was kidnapped. Getty was the grandson of the American oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty , who was the world's richest man at the time. Getty finally paid his grandson's ransom after his right ear was cut off and mailed to his parents with the warning that more body parts would be severed if the ransom was not paid. As Barbino was one of

9737-493: The score. The three were convicted of extortion in 1975 and sentenced to six years in prison. Violi and Cotroni appealed and got their sentences reduced to six months, but Papalia's appeal was rejected. The following year, Violi was arrested to stand before the Quebec government's Commission d'enquête sur le crime organisé (CECO) inquiry into organized crime; he was sent to jail for one year for contempt . The testimony heard during

9844-410: The son of Joseph Bonanno , as he stated, "I told you that if I was to know that Bonanno was coming up again, I would tell him what a dishonest man he is. I would have gone myself and shown him what I thought of him...I would have told him, 'I'm not with you nor with him. I'm by myself. I don't want to have anything to do with anyone, because you're all a bunch of bastards'. The way things stand today that

9951-514: The telephone company—it is not part of the network's ordinary operation. In 1995, Peter Garza , a Special Agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service , conducted the first court-ordered Internet wiretap in the United States while investigating Julio Cesar "Griton" Ardita. As technologies emerge, including VoIP , new questions are raised about law enforcement access to communications (see VoIP recording ). In 2004,

10058-431: The telephone system, and need not be in the same premises as the telephone. Some apparatus may require occasional access to replace batteries or tapes. Poorly designed tapping or transmitting equipment can cause interference audible to users of the telephone. The tapped signal may either be recorded at the site of the tap or transmitted by radio or over the telephone wires. As of 2007 state-of-the-art equipment operates in

10165-470: The time, Vic Cotroni remarked, "Me, I'm capodecina . I got the right to expel." Violi requested permission from the New York bosses to kill Rizzuto, but the request was turned down. In 1974, Violi and Cotroni were overheard on a police wiretap threatening to kill Hamilton mobster Johnny Papalia and demanding $ 150,000 after he used their names in a $ 300,000 extortion plot without notifying or cutting them in on

10272-512: The traditional Mafia standards of leadership. He was clearly a braggart and was indiscreet. Perhaps, worse of all, he showed himself to be a petty criminal who didn't balk at having his soldiers steal from Little Italy brides as he attended their weddings, a man whose actions deprived St. Leonard children of gifts at Christmas." The journalist Jerry Langton wrote that the Ménard tapes had destroyed Violi's underworld reputation and made him "...in many eyes,

10379-472: The type of communication, 3) the identity of the people or places targeted, 4) the period of validity (60 days from issue). In India, the lawful interception of communication by authorized law enforcement agencies (LEAs) is carried out in accordance with Section 5(2) of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 read with Rule 419A of Indian Telegraph (Amendment) Rules, 2007. Directions for interception of any message or class of messages under sub-section (2) of Section 5 of

10486-520: The way for his murder. The way that the police wiretaps revealed that Violi kept boasting with hubristic arrogance that it was not possible for the police to wiretap him made him appear to be a fool. Likewise, the way that the police wiretaps showed him making disparaging and insulting remarks about his superiors in Montreal and New York were gravely damaging to his reputation. Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of The Toronto Star wrote, "The wiretap conversations had shown that Violi didn't measure up to

10593-435: The younger Calabrian. Greco led the Sicilian faction of the family until his death in 1972. In December 1970, his bar was bugged with wiretaps by Robert Ménard , an undercover police officer who used the alias Robert Wilson, who rented an apartment above Violi's Reggio Bar for several years. Ménard was supposed to go undercover for only three months, but instead served undercover for about five years. The evidence he acquired

10700-569: Was established in the Prohibition -Era conviction of bootlegger Roy Olmstead . Wiretapping has also been carried out in the US under most presidents, sometimes with a lawful warrant since the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional in 1928. On October 19, 1963, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy , who served under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson , authorized the FBI to begin wiretapping

10807-549: Was five days later at the Church of the Madonna della Difesa , and was buried at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal. In a sign of disfavour, only a few gangsters attended the funeral. Violi's father-in-law, Giacomo Luppino of Hamilton, together with Michele "Mike" Racco of Toronto and Frank Sylvestro of Guelph , were the only non-Montreal Mafiosi to make the trip to Montreal to attend Violi's funeral. No Mafiosi from New York attended

10914-593: Was in Venezuela at the time of Violi's murder, his brother-in-law Domenico Manno was believed to play a major role in the murder on Rizzuto's orders. The three hitmen who killed Violi, Agostino Cuntrera, Giovanni DiMora, and Domenico Manno, all made guilty pleas to the charges of conspiracy to murder Violi as the Crown dropped the charges of first-degree murder against them as part of the plea bargain. Cuntrera, Manno and DiMora observed omertà and refused to name who hired them, but

11021-524: Was killed by the Popeyes, which led to calls within the family to "take care of the Frenchmen once and for all." At a meeting at the Windsor Hotel attended by Violi, Vic Cotorni and Joe DiMaulo, it was decided to end the war with the Popeyes, which was felt to be adverse for business. Even though it was Violi who decided to end the war, he continued to lash out at Frank Cotroni, who he felt should have massacred

11128-524: Was later used in subsequent cases. Ménard under his Wilson identity hardly spoke at all to Violi during his first two years as his tenant and was most surprised when Violi wanted to speak over a meal of pizza and wine. Ménard described Violi as a "better class of criminals" than the French-Canadian bank robbers who shot most of his leg. Ménard stated that Violi's eyes had "intelligence, but ruthlessness. Total ruthlessness. Paolo would kill, but he'd do it in

11235-418: Was left in the street after seeing an Italian- dubbed version of The Godfather Part II with his wife. Just under a year later, on 8 February 1977, Francesco Violi, the younger brother of Paolo, the family enforcer, was murdered by several shotgun blasts. Shortly after Violi was released from the brief jail sentence with relation to the CECO inquiry, he sold his bar to brothers Vincenzo and Giuseppe Randisi;

11342-499: Was told 'Take care of this problem for us'. Otherwise he never would have shot up [in status] the way he did." Violi gained Canadian citizenship in 1956, and by the early 1960s was running illegally manufactured liquor from Ontario to Quebec. He became associated with Giacomo Luppino, boss of the Luppino family in Hamilton , but left for Montreal in 1963 on Luppino's orders to avoid clashes with another Hamilton mobster, Johnny Papalia . On 10 July 1965, Violi married Grazia Luppino,

11449-403: Was very nationalistic. He spoke English a lot." Ménard recalled that Violi was the neighbourhood leader in Saint-Leonard as he recalled, "There was some fear. He was like the don. He was like the godfather. I can remember some old people going over and kissing his hand...I guess it was a mark of respect. He was always bowed to. I'm not saying it was grandiose. It was little things." Violi received

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