MONTREAL- At Nick Rizzuto Jr.’s wedding in 1995 at the Sheraton Centre Hotel downtown, RCMP and Laval police officers were so shutter-happy, the guests might have taken them for official wedding photographers.
Now that the reputed Canadian godfather’s eldest son is about to be buried, all eyes – and lenses – will be focused on his funeral.
Gunned down Monday near a real-estate developer’s office in Notre Dame de Grâce, Rizzuto’s body is expected to lie in repose at the Complexe Funéraire Loreto in St. Léonard, not least because the swank funeral parlour is owned by the mother of the deceased, Giovanna Cammalleri, and his aunt, Maria Rizzuto Renda.
The funeral service is expected to take place Saturday at Notre Dame de la Défense church in Little Italy.
Vito Rizzuto, the slain man’s father, though previously known as Canada’s Teflon Don, is currently serving a 10-year sentence in the United States for racketeering, related to three murders that occurred in the 1980s. His sentence will end in 2012.
It will be up to the warden of a Colorado prison to decide whether he will be able to attend his son’s funeral in the coming days.
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