THE MUSITANO FAMILY TREE

Angelo Musitano (Anthony and Dominic’s uncle)

Born: 1909 in Delianova in Calabria, Italy; nicknamed “The Beast of Delianova”; date of death unknown

Lengthy criminal record by the time he was 20: weapons offences, threatening, home invasion, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder

On June 29, 1937, shortly after being released from prison, he shot his widowed sister Rosa, who he believed was pregnant and had disgraced the family. He then dragged her down the street to her lover’s house and stabbed her. When he couldn’t find her lover, he killed the man’s brother instead

He fled Italy and was convicted in absentia of the double murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He came to Hamilton, where he lived under the name of Jim D’Augustino until he was caught by the RCMP and extradited to Italy from his Ray Street North home in 1965

Dominic Musitano (Angelo’s nephew, Pat and Ang’s father) Born: Near Reggio, Calabria Died: In 1995 from a heart attack; he was 57

Jailed in 1985 for being an accessory after the fact in the slaying of Toronto mobster Domenic Racco in 1983. In the same crime, Dominic’s nephew, Guiseppe Avignone, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder and was jailed

Cleared in 1983 on four charges of conspiracy to commit extortion Anthony (Tony) Musitano (Dominic’s brother) Born in Calabria Age: 70 Convicted of conspiracy to possess explosive substances with intent to cause explosions in 1983 and sentenced to 15 years, in connection with a string of bombings across Hamilton in the late 1970s through to the summer of 1980

While serving the first year of that sentence in Millhaven penitentiary, Anthony helped plot the 1983 killing of Toronto mobster Domenic Racco to settle a drug debt. He was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and received a sentence concurrent to the one he was already serving

Before the bombing case, he had a criminal record for possession of a prohibited weapon and obstructing police He was granted full parole in 1990 Pasquale (Pat) Musitano (Dominic’s son ) Eldest of five children Age: 49 Was president of P&L Tire Recycling Inc. in 1992, when he was found guilty of failing to make his Mount Hope tire dump conform to the Ontario fire code. He and his father were later handed a $1.8-million bill from the Ministry of Environment for its cleanup of the site, a bill Musitano dodged with a 1993 bankruptcy claim. Angelo (Ang) Musitano (Pat’s brother and Dominic’s son) Age: 39 years at the time of his shooting death Tuesday