Raffaele Delle Donne

Raffaele Delle Donne (Italian:

Delle Donne was born in Naples, Italy, where he sold fake Gucci belts to make money.^[1] In 1980, a massive earthquake killed more than 2,500 people and destroyed 30,000 homes, including the seventh-floor apartment where he lived with his parents and four siblings. In the winter of 1981, the family immigrated from Italy to Toronto.^[1] In grade 8, after his parents separated, Delle Donne quit school to work in a glass factory and made $10,000 every couple of weeks selling fake Armani suits out of his car. He later married and had two sons, giving up his scamming lifestyle to please his wife; he got a job at the post office in the Corso Italia area of Toronto.^[1]

Attempted hit on Modica

In 2002, he became active in the mob with mobster Michael Marrese, allies with Michele Modica, who had a reputation as the "king of mortgage frauds". Marrese used Delle Donne as a chauffeur, errand boy and scout for potential properties.^[1] Delle Donne was later approached by rival mobster Pietro Scarcella to spy on Marrese and Modica.^[1] Hostilities developed between Scarcella and Modica, who owed $130,000 to him and the Hells Angels.^[1] Another mobster, Salvatore Calautti ran up over $200,000 in gambling debts to the Rizzuto crime family and the Hells Angels; refusing to pay, the debt was believed to be assumed by Modica. This led to the April 21, 2004, attempted assassination of Modica in a North York California Sandwiches shop, leaving an innocent victim, mother of three children, Louise Russo paralyzed while Modica and his associates escaped unscathed.^[2] Scarcella's nephew Antonio Borrelli had sprayed bullets with an AR-15 rifle from a van including Hells Angels bikers Paris Christoforou and Mark Peretz as the driver.^[1] Delle Donne, who had arranged the meeting to unsuspectingly double cross Modica under Scarcella's orders, was also in the shop at the time of the attempted hit.^[1] Modica was later deported to Sicily.^[3]

Pentito

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