Yous Guys Moved My Cheese
Lino Saputo, the billionaire cheese-making owner of Saputo, who is almost universally identified in media reports as a Montreal cheese magnate, is fighting back in court against allegations printed in Canadian and Italian papers linking him to the mafia.
Cheese maker Saputo Inc. (TSX:SAP) is suing several Canadian media for defamation over stories linking founder Lino Saputo to the Italian Mafia.
Reports published in December alleged Saputo was part of an investigation by Italian police into a Mafia money-laundering scheme worth some $600 million.
Both the company and Lino Saputo have denied links to organized crime and say legal proceedings in Italy have already confirmed Saputo is not under investigation by the Italian police.
More from the Canadian Press. Perhaps fighting back against the suit, one popular Canadian site today is featuring a non-Saputo list of The Best Cheeses You’ve Never Heard Of.
Leave the Gun, Take the Wasabi
If I had the mafia after me, I’d make myself scarce. I’d be gone — like Keyser Soze gone. Here’s what I probably wouldn’t do.
Joseph Vollaro - the mob rat whose underworld revelations are rocking the Gambino crime family - brashly strolled into… Staten Island sushi restaurant [Mizu] Saturday night to pick up some takeout, even though he’s supposed to be in the federal witness-protection program.
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Either way, Vollaro’s appearance in the neighborhood rife with wiseguys seemed particularly bizarre. It came just two days after authorities busted 62 New York mobsters, some of them because of secret recordings the Staten Island trucking executive made.
The indicted gangsters include the entire top tier of the Gambino crime family, at least those not already in prison.
The NY Post and Gothamist have more.
So what’s Mizu? Is it worth dying for? If this video of Mizu master chef “Saggy” flinging knives like a Benihana pro is any evidence, I’d say no.
