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8-15-01 Amodeo convicted of murder for Mafia. Wednesday 15 August 2001
PAUL CHERRY A man who lived in Montreal for years, quietly plying his trade as an east-end jeweler, has been convicted of committing a murder for the Mafia in Sicily.
According to an Italian newspaper, Amodeo has appealed the verdict, which was handed down on July 18, less than a month after he was deported from Canada. He was found guilty of murder and attempted murder. The trial, in the Agrigento province, resulted in 21 life sentences for other suspected members of the Sicilian Mafia convicted with Amodeo. Eight people were acquitted in what the media there referred to as a "historic trial." The RCMP arrested Amodeo Feb. 20 near his home in the east end where he had lived with his wife and two sons for years. Canadian immigration authorities alleged that he had legally separated from his wife for a brief period to avoid a background check while she applied for permanent-resident status. Amodeo and his family arrived in Canada in 1996 and remained by renewing their tourist and work visas. He and his wife established the Il Barone Dell'Oro jewelry store on Alexis Carrel St. in 1998. After several post-arrest hearings before the Immigration and Refugee Board, Amodeo decided not to contest the allegation that he had lied when renewing a tourist visa last year. During the application process, he had claimed he knew of no serious criminal charges against him in other countries. But at the time, apparently, an Italian lawyer representing Amodeo was contesting charges of murder and attempted murder filed against him in a court in Palermo in 1999. In court documents detailing the incident, Amodeo was described by confessed members of the Cosa Nostra in Sicily as being part of a Mafia family that operated in the town of Cattolica Eraclea in Agrigento. A warrant, based on testimony from two informants, alleged that Amodeo and a group of men plotted to murder two other men on Jan. 12, 1991, and carried out the attack. However, one of the targeted men survived. During an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing, Amodeo denied the allegations. But the Italian judge found him guilty of both counts.
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