Vincenzo 'Jimmy' DeMaria won an IRB decision allowing him to stay in Canada because mountainous evidence he’s a mobster was deemed circumstantial. The Feds have appealed and believe cops, who say DeMaria is the top ’Ndrangheta boss in Canada.
Mafia boss Vincenzo 'Jimmy' DeMaria says he's a victim of anti-Italian profiling. "If you’re Italian, people say, 'We gotta watch this guy,’ says Jimmy DeMaria. "It’s a stereotype thing that unfortunately when you’re Italian you live in it." Heinous ethnic profiling and anti-Italian stereotypes are behind 40 years of efforts to deport him from Canada he says. Jimmy was back-peddling furiously about his power base of Siderno. “It’s a typical profiling here,” he said. “I have no knowledge,” said DeMaria. “I don’t know the answer. The only answer I know is what I read in the newspaper, like everybody else.” He says allegations he's a famous mafia boss as “insane” and “lies.”
An IRB hearing is the latest in a multi-generational struggle to deport mob boss Vincenzo DeMaria, 69. He has resisted being sent back to Italy for 40 years, a country he left when he was nine months old. He never became a citizen. His conviction for murder after he shot a man who owed him money in 1981 meant he could never become Canadian. DeMaria has a reputation as a powerful underworld player and the 'top guy in Toronto'. Prosecutors asked what he knew of organized crime. DeMaria replied he reads things in the papers that people he knows are in the mob. He denied knowing anything about the ‘Ndrangheta. A report in 2017 named Vincenzo DeMaria as one of seven senior ’Ndrangheta bosses and a leading member of its board of directors, called the Camera di Controllo.
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