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After more than two years in jail, Leonardo Rizzuto was released in Montreal on Feb. 19, 2018.

The 48-year-old son of former mob boss Vito Rizzuto was acquitted of charges of gangsterism and conspiracy to traffic cocaine after Quebec Superior Court Justice Eric Downs ruled that police illegally wiretapped them in the conference room at their lawyer’s office.

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The judge ruled that police had not put in place sufficient measures to prevent the interception of conversations between other lawyers and their clients.

With the wiretap evidence excluded, Rizzuto was acquitted after the prosecutors said they had no other evidence to present on the charges related to gangsterism and conspiracy to traffic cocaine.