January 1, 1971 - Salvatore Montagna
His ascent through the Bonanno family was swift enough that he held acting boss status by his early thirties, a position that carried weight even amid the family's ongoing legal pressures. Deportation to Canada did not end his ambitions — it redirected them toward Montreal's fractured underworld, where a leadership vacuum following the Rizzuto killings created an opening he moved to fill. He was killed in November 2011, the outcome of a power struggle he had not yet won.
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Salvatore "Sal the Iron Worker" Montagna (Italian: [salvaˈtoːre monˈtaɲɲa]; 1971 – November 24, 2011) was an Italian-Canadian crime boss and acting boss of the Bonanno crime family in New York City, as well as the Sicilian faction-leader of the Bronx section. He had later been associated with the Rizzuto crime family of Montreal.
Montagna was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1971. He was raised in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. In the mid 1980s, at the age of 15, his family immigrated to the United States and settled in the Bronx, New York. He later became an acting caporegime for the Bonanno crime family, and by 2004, he was the acting boss of the family in the absence of Vincent Basciano. Montagna was a Canadian and Italian citizen, and was deported from the United States to Canada in 2009. In Montreal, Montagna rivaled with the Rizzuto crime family, and after the death of boss Nicolo Rizzuto in 2010, he vied for power.
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