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Commisso is not on trial and was not charged in the case, although court heard he was an original target of the police probe. The jury has heard plenty about him. Guido said Commisso is the Toronto boss of a prominent clan of the ’Ndrangheta, the proper name of the Mafia in southern Italy’s Calabria region.

“He threatened me. He threatened my family that day, too,” Guido said of Commisso.

Despite the confrontation, a few days later, Guido still went to an Italian café in Vaughan, Ont., to meet with Giuseppe Ursino, one of two men on trial. Ursino, 64, of Bradford, Ont., known as Pino, is an alleged boss of another clan of the ’Ndrangheta and was Guido’s alleged underworld boss.

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Guido was again wired. It was the 228th time he acted as a secret double agent for police and his last in the operation. Guido boldly complained to Ursino of his meeting with Commisso.

“He says he heard something that I was no good,” Guido said to Ursino, according to the wiretap recording. “He goes, ‘You’re not stupid.’ He goes, ‘You know, you have a mother, father, brothers, you don’t want anything to happen to them’.”

Guido said he challenged Commisso.

“Don’t f—ing threaten my family,” he recounted his response, to which Commisso said he wasn’t threatening his family.

The next day, he said Commisso called him and asked to meet. In a café, he said, Commisso tried to explain.

“I wasn’t threatening your family, right? But you know the way Italians, especially the, you know, the way they do it.… If you’re talking to the police and they can’t find you they go after your family … I’m just letting you know.”