230:. In May 2020, DeMaria was granted house arrest while he fights the deportation dispute, with conditions, imposed by the IRB. These included that he not communicate directly or indirectly with several alleged or accused mobsters and mob associates who live in Canada and Italy including his brother Joe, his cousin Michele Carabetta, funeral home owner Luigi Vescio, Angelo Figliomeni, Cosimo Figliomeni,
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91:, Ontario. In 1974, DeMaria married a woman named Linda. DeMaria never became a Canadian citizen, and between 1978 and 1981, he was arrested six times on charges ranging from carrying a concealed weapon to extortion, but all charges were either withdrawn or dismissed. DeMaria's family own Angel's Bakery in the
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In a 2010 report for a court in Italy, Italian investigators said
Toronto's 'Ndrangheta had climbed "to the top of the criminal world" with "an unbreakable umbilical cord" to their hometowns in Calabria. That same report named DeMaria as one of seven senior 'Ndrangheta bosses here and as a member of
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On April 27, 2020, the IRB recognized DeMaria's good behaviour while incarcerated and his "chronic kidney issues" which required regular visits to a specialist. It granted him day parole but required that he provide documented financial information. The issue of possible deportation was raised again
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by Luigi Vescio, a funeral home owner in the
Greater Toronto Area, where they were taken to Angel's Bakery. They were also taken to meet with DeMaria's brother, Giuseppe (Joe) DeMaria. Joe DeMaria and Vescio then drove to Kingston to visit Vincenzo DeMaria in prison. When Muià and Gregaraci returned
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DeMaria has worked as a baker and operated a financial services company, Invicta
Financial. On April 20, 2009, DeMaria was arrested at Invicta Financial on a parole violation, and was sent back to prison for consorting with mafia associates and violating the conditions of his release. Photographs of
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found he had violated parole conditions that prohibit him from associating with anyone known to be involved in crime. The board found he breached that condition when he attended two family weddings, one on
February 25, 2012, and the other on June 23, 2012; one of which was Angelo Musitano's wedding
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Federal Court decision stated that police had not provided evidence to confirm that he was a "member of 'Ndrangheta"; while the Court agreed that there was "strong suspicion" that he was a mobster, this was "not backed by hard evidence".
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Federal Court; Judge James Russell issued a 65-page decision on April 18, 2019, weighing the arguments and the evidence which he considered to be "tenuous evidence, to say the least", overturning the IRB deportation order. The judge found that
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Gregaraci and his cousin Vincenzo Muià had visited Toronto on March 31, 2019 to meet with Angelo and Cosimo Figliomeni, seeking answers to who had ambushed and killed Muià's brother, Carmelo Muià, in Siderno on January 18, 2018; Muià's smartphone was unwittingly and
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into prison. When he faced no discipline or charge, and no cyanide was ever found, he took the warden to court and won a transfer back to medium-security. On another occasion in 1987, DeMaria was transferred to
Millhaven from Joyceville after calling the office of then-Toronto MP
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47:, Ontario, Canada. In 1982, DeMaria was convicted of murder, and upon his release in 1990, has since been involved in constant parole hearings and deportation disputes. A 2010 Italian police report named DeMaria as one of the top
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to Italy, they were arrested, and in January 2020, Gregaraci committed suicide in his prison cell. On August 9, 2019, several former Greater Toronto Area residents were arrested in Calabria, including Joe DeMaria.
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