Enio Mora

In 1968, he moved to Canada, where he immediately became involved in organized crime.

Mora was involved in running illegal gambling houses, home repair scams, loansharking and money laundering.

Additional legal activities on his part included the sale of insurance; work as a building contractor; owning a drywalling firm; and operating a restaurant.

Initially, Mora worked for the Toronto gangster Rocco Zito.

Mora was described by one author as having "a cocky, flamboyant personality".

By 1975, Mora was selling heroin, and in November of that year become involved in an offer to sell the drug to undercover policemen.

On 11 August 1976, Mora was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on charges of conspiracy to sell heroin.

Mora did not think much of the charges and several times told the policeman Carl MacLeod that all of the charges would be dismissed by January 1978.

In 1979, Mora was the victim of a murder attempt when much of his lower left leg was torn off by a blast from a shotgun when he was lounging in an illegal gambling house on Harbord Street in Toronto.

As a result, Mora was fitted with an artificial leg that caused him to walk with a limp.

The prime suspect in the shooting of Mora, Anthony Carnevale, was killed in January 1980 when he was shot dead in the basement apartment that he lived in with his parents.

The police regarded Mora as the prime suspect in Carnevale's murder, but he was never charged.

The weapon used to kill Carnavale was a shotgun, the same weapon that had cost Mora his leg.

On 24 September 1980, Mora made a plea bargain with the Crown under which he pledged guilty to the heroin charges and served two years in prison.

By the early 1980s, Mora had transferred his loyalty from Zito over to Paul Volpe.

Mora was also a prime suspect in Volpe's murder as he was one of the last people to see him alive, and the police suspect that Mora at very least helped to lure Volpe into an ambush.

After Volpe's murder in 1983, Mora visited Millhaven Penitentiary on 5 February 1984 to meet the imprisoned gangster Antonio "Tony" Musitano of the Musitano family.

However, Mora instead joined the Papalia family.

In December 1985, a crew of Papalia family Mafiosi led by Carmen Barillaro were charged with extortion from the illegal gambling houses in Toronto's Greektown in the Pape-Danforth area.

Mora was one of those charged as part of Barillaro's crew.

Mora was known for his practice of dousing those behind in their debts to Johnny Papalia with gasoline and threatening to burn them alive if they refused to pay up promptly.

Together with Barillaro, Mora was one of Papalia's principle lieutenants, in charge of the Papalia family's operations in the Toronto area while Barillaro ran the operations in the Niagara Peninsula.

Barillaro was considered as the more important of the two owing to the proximity of the Niagara peninsula to the American border and hence placing him in charge of drug-smuggling.

Following Mora's convictions on weapons and drugs charges, the government of Canada attempted to deport him to Italy, but Mora's lawyers successfully argued in court that it would be cruel to separate Mora from his wife and three daughters, leading the judge to rule that Mora be allowed to stay in Canada.

In 1995, Mora took out a loan of $7.2 million from Vito Rizzuto, the boss of Montreal's Rizzuto family.

In turn, Mora handed over most of the loan to Papalia and Barillaro, who used some of it to open nightclubs and restaurants while the rest just vanished.

Neither Papalia nor Barillaro were interested in repaying the loan as the police recorded Barillaro saying on his phone "They can't touch us".

The Canadian journalists André Cédilot and André Noël wrote that this was a "major mistake" as Rizzuto decided to wipe out the Papalia family's leaders.

In 1995, the police tapped Mora's phone, and heard him talk about a wedding reception he was planning to attend at the Sutton Place Hotel in Toronto.

He mentioned in one of his calls that the father of the bride was Alfonso Caruana, who was wanted in Italy for money laundering.

Caruana had disappeared and Mora's reference to him was the first indication as to he had gone after fleeing Italy.

Enio "Pegleg" Mora (1949 – 11 September 1996) was an Italian-born Canadian mobster.

Mora was born in Sora, Lazio, but grew up in the south of France.

On 11 September 1996, Mora was shot four times in the head and his corpse was left in the trunk of his Cadillac automobile, on Teston Road in rural Vaughan.

Detective Sergeant Ron Sandelli of the Toronto police told the media: "It [Mora's murder] sure wasn't a surprise. He had his hand into so many things".

The police established via forensic testing that Mora was murdered on a farm in Vaughan, where he often visited, before his body was placed inside of his Cadillac.

Mora's corpse was found with his pants and underwear pulled down, an indication that he likely had committed a sexual offense, as within the Mafia subculture removing a murder victim's pants and underwear indicates that the victim had sex with someone whom they were not supposed to.

Within the Mafia subculture, for a Mafiosi to have sex with the wife of another Mafiosi is punishable by death.

In practice, the enforcement of such rules largely depend upon the seniority of a Mafiosi.

Within the Mafia, actions that offended the "honour" of another Mafiosi can be ordered without the approval of a more senior boss.