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There are several of the Calabresi criminal clans operating in the GTA.

Dubro believes the clock is ticking down to zero on reputed Hamilton mob chieftain Pat Musitano.

He has predicted Musitano’s demise in the past but the wily son of the underworld has survived, battered but still standing.

“The killing will continue. Amazingly I started working on mob stories in 1974 and things are almost worse today as we enter 2020 in terms of numbers [of slayings] and criminal activities, Dubro said.

He added: “Organized crime is different than it was in the 1970s. There are more criminal groups and they’re more diverse.”

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The warfare that started with the slaying of mob scion Angelo Musitano outside his Waterdown home in 2017 shows no sign of ebbing.

Musitano had reportedly retreated from his family’s criminal enterprises but was still clipped.

His death was the first sign that gangland rivals were tossing away the old rules: It was now open season on families and fringe players alike.

A mobster’s soft underbelly.

Cece Luppino must have realized that on Jan. 30, 2019 when the 43-year-old was gunned down at his Hamilton home.

His father is reputed crime lord Rocco Luppino. But his son did not have a criminal record, wasn’t known to police and was even caught on tape saying he wanted nothing to do with the underworld.

It didn’t save him.

And in August, Roncesvalles Ave. restaurateur Paul Caputo, 64, was murdered late on a Friday afternoon. Caputo was rumoured to have underworld connections but if anything was a bit player.