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Anyone who was riveted by the Charbonneau Commission‘s televised public hearings will remember the image of Nicolo Milioto stuffing wads of rolled up cash in his sock at the back of the Montreal Mafia hangout Café Consenza.

So where’s the money that Milioto, a major municipal sidewalk contractor at the time, was seen handling in the company of Nicolo Rizzuto Sr. and his lieutenant, Rocco Sollecito, in an RCMP surveillance video during the corruption hearings ?

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For that matter, what do 3% + 2.5% + 1% equal in dollars that were stolen from taxpayers through kickbacks on an unquantified number of municipal construction contracts that were awarded in Montreal?

They are the percentages that former construction boss Lino Zambito and other witnesses testified at the Charbonneau Commission were paid in the mid-2000s on inflated city construction contracts or phoney contract extras to former Union Montreal party fundraiser Bernard Trépanier, the mafia, and city engineer Gilles Surprenant, respectively.