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On Aug. 20, 2015, organized crime investigators got a rare glimpse inside Montreal’s underworld as three men alleged to be the most powerful gangsters in the city discussed business in a room they assumed could never be bugged.

The conversation was between Gregory Woolley, 46, a former Haitian street gang member who rose to become an associate of the Hells Angels, and two alleged leaders of the Montreal Mafia: Leonardo Rizzuto, 49, and Stefano Sollecito, 51.

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They were meeting in the Little Italy offices of defence lawyer Loris Cavaliere where Rizzuto — the son of now-deceased Mafia leader Vito Rizzuto — worked as a lawyer.

Investigators in what was dubbed Project Magot received court authorization to install a bug at the offices, something Rizzuto probably assumed the police would never attempt.

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The conversation revealed the close relationship between Montreal street gangs, the Hells Angels and the faction of the Montreal Mafia police say was led by Sollecito and Rizzuto.