Montreal Mafioso gets 14 years for plotting to kill New York rival

A ranking member of Montreal's Mafia has been given 14-year sentence for conspiring to murder a Mob rival from New York.

Raynald Desjardinspleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge in 2015, acknowledging his rolein the death of Mob boss Salvatore Montagna, killed inCharlemagnein 2011.

• Raynald Desjardins pleads guilty to conspiracy in Salvatore Montagna murder

Montagna was murdered just months afterDesjardins narrowly escaped an attempt on his own life.

A gunman wielding an AK-47 sprayedDesjardins's SUV with 17 bullets as he was getting into the vehicle in Laval.

On Monday, a Quebec judge confirmed the proposal for Desjardins's sentence, which had been submitted jointly by the Crown and the defence.

Taking into account time already served,Desjardinshas six and a half years left to serve in prison.

Nicknamed"Sal the Iron Worker,"Montagnaowned and operated a successful steel business in the U.S.

The FBI once called him the acting boss of theBonannocrime familyprompting one of New York's tabloids to dub him the "Bambino Boss" because of his rise to power in hismid-30s.