 With the witness unfit to testify, Rizzuto was acquitted in 1989.In the early 1990s, the RCMP secretly ran a phony currency exchange in Montreal as part of an elaborate sting operation, called Project Compote, ending with 46 arrests and a Rizzuto lawyer, Joseph Lagana, convicted for laundering $47 million.Rizzuto was named as a co-conspirator, but there was not enough evidence to charge him.