The feud between the Costa and Commisso families stretched from the seaside town of Siderno, above, to a suburb north of Toronto. At the heart of the vendetta was the clashing ambition of two mob clans in Siderno and the unforgiving tradition of the faida — an institutionalized form of family feud in traditional Calabrian culture where spilled blood demands blood be spilled in return. After the Costa family returned from Canada to Siderno some of the criminally active sons chafed at the constraints of working in the shadow of the town’s mob boss, a Commisso. Rumbo, however, was arrested in Siderno and in 1996 was sentenced to 30 years in prison by an Italian court for the Toronto shooting after three Canadian police officers testified in Italy. Davide Gattuso was described by Italian prosecutors as “a close associate of all the members of the crime group, actively involved in drug trafficking and the possession of firearms. The feud between the Commissos and the Costas has since been settled after a provincial board overseeing the various Calabrian Mafia clans was established — with the help of respected mobsters in Canada who are Siderno expatriates, sources said.

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