Editing Rizzuto crime family (section)

==Vito Rizzuto and New York ties==
Vito Rizzuto maintained close relationships with Bonanno figures including Gerlando Sciascia and Joseph Massino. A 1981 United States federal surveillance photograph shows the three together in New York. Association in the photograph is significant but does not alone prove every rank or jurisdictional claim.

Rizzuto participated in the May 1981 killings of Bonanno captains Alphonse Indelicato, Philip Giaccone and Dominick Trinchera. After extradition to the United States, he pleaded guilty in 2007 to a RICO conspiracy count connected with the murders and received a ten-year sentence.<ref name="RizzutoCase">[https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca10/10-1241/10-1241-2011-03-14.html ''Rizzuto v. Wilner'', 392 F. App'x 636] (10th Cir. 2010), describing the guilty plea and sentence.</ref><ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-05-na-briefs5.3-story.html “Mobster Admits Role in N.Y. Killings”], ''Los Angeles Times'', May 5, 2007.</ref>

The conviction demonstrates a strong Bonanno organizational relationship. It does not settle whether Montreal remained formally subordinate during every later year.