Visiting Mafia boss accidentally brings police wiretap to all his meetings

NEW: JOIN ME ON PATREON: The Mob Reporter here with fascinating new revelations about the Mafia in both Italy and Canada. Last month we learned that police in Canada and Italy made simultaneous raids and arrests after running investigations intertwined with each other, and the news was pretty stunning. Clans of what’s called the ‘Ndrangheta — the Mafia that formed in Italy’s southern region of Calabria — that have been operating in Canada for decades had become so influential in the global underworld that they had authority to operate independently, outside and even parallel to the Mafia’s ruling commission back home in Siderno, a Mafia stronghold in Italy’s south. Now we are learning more. On Friday, Italian police did a second sweep, rounding up 16 more alleged mobsters wanted from the evidence investigators gathered — and half of them are Canadians or living in Canada. I can now reveal that the arrests stem from a visit to Canada by an alleged ‘Ndrangheta boss f