Musitano crime family
| Founded | 1940s |
|---|---|
| Founded by | Angelo Musitano |
| Founding location | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| Years active | 1940s–present |
| Territory | Canada: Various neighbourhoods in Hamilton and Toronto Italy: Delianuova and Platì in Calabria, and Buccinasco and Bareggio in Milan |
| Ethnicity | People of Italian descent as "made men", and other ethnicities as "associates" |
| Criminal activities | Racketeering, loan sharking, money laundering, fraud, prostitution, murder, gambling, drug trafficking, smuggling, extortion and corruption |
| Allies | Rizzuto crime family Independent Soldiers West End Gang Hells Angels Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan Various other crime families and gangs |
| Rivals | Luppino-Violi crime family Papalia crime family Various gangs over Canada including their allies |
The Musitano crime family (Italian: [muziˈtaːno]), also known as Musitano 'ndrina, is a 'Ndrangheta organized crime family based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, while another branch of it is active in Platì in Southern Italy and Buccinasco and Bareggio in Northern Italy.
Founded by Angelo Musitano in Canada in the 1940s, the family was one of three centralized organized crime organizations in Hamilton, with the other two being the Luppino crime family and the Papalia crime family. Unlike the other two Hamilton families, the Musitanos did not form a strong alliance with the Buffalo crime family, staying closer to their 'Ndrangheta cell.
The Musitano 'ndrina, in contrast to its relevance in the Canadian underworld, held a much less prominent role in Italy, where it became more known to the authorities only during the 1980s, when it was affiliated with the 'ndrine Ruga and Aquilino, and led by Domenico Musitano, killed in 1986.
The killings of Johnny Papalia and his lieutenant Carmen Barillaro in 1997, ordered by brothers Angelo and Pat Musitano, had effectively wiped out the family's remaining leaders in Canada. One news report stated that the events of 1997 "decapitated the Papalia family." The brothers were arrested and sentenced in 2000 and then released in 2006. A power struggle within the Hamilton mafia had been the result of several attempts made on Pat's life in the 2010s; Angelo was killed in 2017 and, finally, Pat was killed in 2020.