the article, former capo Frank Lino, turned informant for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, is quoted as saying Gagliano was first introduced to him during a meeting with other mob members in Montreal in the early 1990s. Lino also stated that Gagliano was a made man of the Mafia. It was not the first time Gagliano's name has been linked to organized crime. In April 1994, La Presse reported that Gagliano was the accountant for Agostino Cuntrera, cousin of cocaine baron Alfonso Caruana, also a native of Siculiana, who was convicted in the gangland slaying of Paolo Violi in Montreal in 1978. Gagliano denied any links to the Mafia. Since August 2008, Gagliano resided with his family on a vineyard in Dunham, Quebec he purchased. In September 2006, he argued that Liberal leadership candidate Joe Volpe was the victim of the same kind of anti-Italian sentiment that ended his own political career. Electoral record (partial) References The Rothschilds of the Mafia on Aruba, by Tom Blickman, Transnational Organized Crime, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 1997 'They have to stop dirtying my name,' says Gagliano The Hill Times, November 22, 2004 External links 1942 births 2020 deaths People from Saint-Leonard, Quebec Politicians from Montreal Italian emigrants to Canada Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the 26th Canadian Ministry Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada Canadian accountants Ambassadors of Canada to Denmark Corruption in Canada Ministers of Labour of Canada Bonanno crime family People from Siculiana