Paul Volpe

Paul "The Fox" Volpe (; 31 January 1927 – 13 November 1983) was a Canadian mobster and Toronto-based member of the Buffalo crime family.

Criminal activities Volpe was born on 31 January 1927 in Toronto, to poor Italian immigrants. His father, a tailor, died when he was young. He started making strong connections with the Buffalo crime family and other syndicates and started running a casino in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1963 until returning to Toronto in 1965. The same year, Volpe extorted stock promoter Richard Angle, who was wearing wiretaps for police.

In August 1971, at a meeting in Toronto, Giacomo Luppino shifted control of the construction unions in Toronto from Papalia to Volpe. By the early 1970s, Volpe worked with Natale Luppino, son of mob boss Giacomo Luppino of the Luppino crime family, on schemes where they would be paid kickbacks from both the union and the developers for negotiating construction contracts. Volpe maintained a close relationship with both the Luppino and Bordonaro families in Hamilton.

With Volpe living a more outlandish lifestyle and agreeing to appear in an extensive CBC News documentary in 1977, he accidentally overexposed the Canadian mob. Later that year, Volpe went south to Atlantic City, New Jersey where he began investing in real estate after "the okay" from Angelo Bruno of the Philadelphia crime family that operated the city. With the murder of Bruno in 1980 and the up rise of new power in the city, Volpe returned to Toronto, but without his previous gang as most were in jail or fled.

In 1979, Volpe bought a mansion in Schomberg, Ontario. However, the plot was foiled when Kirby turned Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) informant. Papalia and Montreal hitman Réal Simard have also been linked with Volpe's murder, but no charges were laid. The police informer Marvin Elkind stated that Volpe was murdered on the orders of Philadelphia mob boss Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo on the account of his real estate scams in Atlantic City, which he failed to cut him in on. In the Mafia subculture, leaving a corpse at an airport is a sign that the victim had problems abroad, and Elkind noted it was no accident that Volpe's corpse was left in the parking lot of Pearson airport, where it was meant to be found.