From: Montreal Gazette
Paul Cherry
Despite being arrested more than five years ago in an investigation of the Hells Angels’ alleged illicit activities in the downtown core and on the South Shore of Montreal, biker Salvatore Cazzetta likely won’t have his day (or weeks) in court for another two years.
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The men were arrested in 2009 along with 40 other people as part of Project Machine, a Montreal police investigation into drug trafficking in downtown Montreal that branched off to include alleged contraband cigarette trafficking in Kahnawake. Cazzetta and the three other men face charges related to the contraband tobacco part of the investigation. They are accused of defrauding the governments of Quebec and Canada, by depriving both of tax revenues from the sale of cigarettes, and conspiracy to do the same. Cazzetta and Peter Francis Rice are also charged with committing a crime for the benefit of a criminal organization.
