Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery, Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal
Other names
Vic, "The Egg"
Occupation
Crime boss
Spouse
Maria Bresciano
(m. 1928)
Children
2
Relatives
Frank Cotroni (brother) Dino Bravo (nephew-in-law)
Allegiance
Bonanno crime family Cotroni crime family
Conviction(s)
Extortion (1975)
Criminal penalty
Six years' imprisonment; served six months on appeal
Vincenzo "Vic" Cotroni (Italian:[vinˈtʃɛntsokoˈtroːni]; born Vincenzo Cotrone;[1]Italian:[koˈtroːne]; 1911 – September 16, 1984), also known as "The Egg", was an Italian-born Canadian crime boss of the Cotroni crime family in Montreal, Quebec.
Cotroni was born in 1911 in Mammola, Calabria, Italy. In 1924, he immigrated to Montreal. In his early life, he worked as a professional wrestler under the name "Vic Vincent." By the age of 20, Cotroni had accumulated a lengthy record of minor offences, bootlegging with local bootlegger Armand Courville. In 1928, Cotroni was charged with rape against Maria Bresciano. The charge was dropped when Maria agreed to marry him in May 1928, and later had a child, Rosina.
Throughout his life, Cotroni kept a low profile. In 1974, he was subpoenaed to stand before a Quebec government commission inquiry into organized crime and was jailed for one year for contempt. The following year, Cotroni and his capodecina Paolo Violi, along with Hamilton, Ontario mobster Johnny Papalia, were convicted of extortion and sentenced to six years in prison; Cotroni's sentence was later reduced on appeal to just six months.
In the late 1970s, Cotroni transferred control of the day-to-day activities of the family to Violi, together with his brother Frank Cotroni, Nicolas Dilorio, and Luigi Greco. A power struggle between the Calabrians led by Violi and a Sicilian faction led by Nicolo Rizzuto soon broke out; in the mob war that followed the Sicilian Rizzuto crime family emerged as the preeminent crime family in Montreal by the early 1980s. On September 16, 1984, Cotroni died of cancer.
^Auger and Edwards The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime p.63.
Vincenzo "Vic" Cotroni (Italian: [vinˈtʃɛntso koˈtroːni]; born Vincenzo Cotrone; Italian: [koˈtroːne]; 1911 – September 16, 1984), also known as "The...
of New York City. The organization was established in the 1940s by VincenzoCotroni, a Calabrian immigrant from Mammola. Its territory once covered most...
crime family in Montreal, Quebec. Cotroni was born in 1931, in Montreal. His family, including his brother Vincenzo, had immigrated to Montreal in 1924...
family, an Italian-Canadian crime family VincenzoCotroni (1911–1984), Italian-Canadian mobster Frank Cotroni (1931–2004), Italian-Canadian mobster Auger...
the family’s drug business and rackets there. He worked with VincenzoCotroni of the Cotroni crime family in the French Connection. The Bonannos were importing...
with the Calabrese Cotroni crime family, which controlled much of organized crime in Montreal. In the late 1970s, boss VincenzoCotroni transferred the family's...
family drug business there, where he worked with the Calabrian VincenzoCotroni of the Cotroni crime family in the French Connection. Police also estimated...
heroin pipeline in the city of Toronto with Paolo Violi, Rocco Zito and VincenzoCotroni. He died in 1973. Joseph "Joe the Blond" Giordano – capo, Giordano...
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underworld. Regular visitors to Obront's businesses included the gangsters VincenzoCotroni and Nicola Di Iorio of Montreal along with Salvatore Giglio of New...
representative Carmine Galante in heroin trafficking. VincenzoCotroni, the boss of the Cotroni family of Montreal, had formed an alliance with Antoine...
dollars. Giovanni Battista Dibella was a brother of John Dibella (Giovanni Vincenzo Dibella), a business partner and crony of Schiro successor Joseph Bonanno...
wrestling, Bravo became involved in organized crime, allegedly working for the Cotroni crime family. He was killed in his home by multiple gunshots in March 1993...
organised crime dates back to the early 1920s, when VincenzoCotroni immigrated to Montreal, Quebec. The Cotroni family were the first established Italian crime...
organization in the 1970s as part of the Sicilian faction of the Montreal Cotroni crime family. An internal war broke out by the late 1970s which resulted...
the Club St. Paul de Ville, where one of his students was a young VincenzoCotroni. Courville was a leading star in the wrestling promotion run by Sylvio...
those related to Frank Cotroni and brothers Joe and Vincenzo Di Maulo. On 7 May 1968, Blass and Robert Allard ambushed Cotroni outside his home; two of...
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with many Mafiosi, particularly those related to Frank Cotroni and brothers Joe and Vincenzo Di Maulo, all of whom received death threats from Blass...
Rizzuto and Cotroni crime families to be separate, the FBI considers them to be sub-units of the Bonanno crime family's Montreal faction. Cotroni crime family...
later started his own crime syndicate in Montreal after overtaking the Cotroni crime family in the late 1970s. He had several run-ins with the law but...
organized crime: Vincenzo (Jimmy), Natale (Nat), Rocco, Antonio (Tony) and John Luppino. In 1966, when Magaddino planned to have Vic Cotroni killed for his...
contacts with the Luppino crime family in Hamilton, Ontario and with the Cotroni crime family in Montreal. By the early 1960s, Racco established a crimini...
stockbroker to Vic Cotroni, the boss of the Cotroni family, at the time the most powerful organized crime group in Canada. Kirby was told Cotroni had been hired...
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