and in particular to the amazing community education and care provided to pregnant women by Harlem Hospital, the incidence of perinatal HIV transmission in Washington Heights and Harlem has fallen dramatically. Almost no new HIV-infected babies are born in northern Manhattan now, and the AIDS babies of ICC are nearing adulthood.

ICC is but one example of the reach of the HIV denialists. On the same day as the City Council hearing against ICC earlier this month, South Africa's Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang sang the praises of lemon, garlic and beet root as treatments for people with HIV/AIDS and said her government would not be pressured into meeting antiretroviral treatment targets set by the U.N. The next day, the Matthias Rath Foundation, headed by a German vitamin magnate, ranOntario and Quebec. Most declined to speak on the record for professional reasons.

The leadership vacuum has attracted tech-savvy newcomers from Ontario and Quebec who are eager to challenge the old guard. It has also triggered vicious infighting inside what's left of the old Rizzuto organization in Ontario.

That infighting may explain the murder of Angelo (Ang) Musitano, 39, who was shot at close range May 2, 2017, in the driveway of his suburban Hamilton house in mid-afternoon with his wife and three young children inside.

It was what Hamilton police Det.-Sgt. Peter Thom called "a very deliberate and targeted attack."

Before he went to jail, Musitano's 49-year-old brother, Pat, was considered to be a long-standing Niagara Region associate of Rizzuto, with a keen interest in illegal gambling, according to a report