Massimianu Auditore

Don Massimianu Auditore (b. 24 December 1933 in Alcamo, Sicily; age 87) is an Italian-Canadian mafioso and retired businessman, who has served as consigliere of the Auditore crime family since his retirement as family leader in September 1996, when he was succeeded by his son Angelo. He immigrated to Canada in 1960 with his wife and children, cofounding the Pacific Northwest franchise of the Sicilian Mafia alongside ten associates in Vancouver the same year, which by 1970 was de facto independent of the Sicily-based organisation, evolving into the modern Auditore organisation. He groomed his firstborn son Beppe (Giuseppe) as his successor, who was killed in 1994; he retired in 1996, and was succeeded by his younger son Angelo.