Raffaele Delle Donne

In 2002, he became active in the mob with mobster Michael Marrese, allies with Michele Modica, who had a reputation as the "king of mortgage frauds". Marrese used Delle Donne as a chauffeur, errand boy and scout for potential properties.^[1] Delle Donne was later approached by rival mobster Pietro Scarcella to spy on Marrese and Modica.^[1] Hostilities developed between Scarcella and Modica, who owed $130,000 to him and the Hells Angels.^[1] Another mobster, Salvatore Calautti ran up over $200,000 in gambling debts to the Rizzuto crime family and the Hells Angels; refusing to pay, the debt was believed to be assumed by Modica. This led to the April 21, 2004, attempted assassination of Modica in a North York California Sandwiches shop, leaving an innocent victim, mother of three children, Louise Russo paralyzed while Modica and his associates escaped unscathed.^[2] Scarcella's nephew Antonio Borrelli had sprayed bullets with an AR-15 rifle from a van including Hells Angels bikers Paris Christoforou and Mark Peretz as the driver.^[1] Delle Donne, who had arranged the meeting to unsuspectingly double cross Modica under Scarcella's orders, was also in the shop at the time of the attempted hit.^[1] Modica was later deported to Sicily.^[3]

Delle Donne soon turned pentito (informant) voluntarily to help put those involved in injuring an innocent bystander in jail.^[4] Delle Donne worked with police for 13 months wearing wiretaps, and on April 14, 2005, Scarcella, Peretz, Christoforou and Borrelli, were arrested.^[5] In April 2006, in a plea bargain, Scarcella was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, and sentenced to nine years in prison along with Peretz and Christoforou, while the shooter Borrelli received 10 years in prison.^[1][6] During the 2006 sentencing, Russo was paid $2 million in restitution from the mobsters to cover costs of rehabilitation and increased living expenses.^[6] Police offered Delle Donne up to $500,000 for his work, but he refused, as well as the refusal to enter Canada's federal witness protection program.^[1] After the shooting, his wife left with their sons in the witness protection program. Delle Donne, who lives in an unknown location, is considered a "rat" by the mob and has a $100,000 contract on his head.^[7]