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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI takes down ENTIRE leadership of the Colombo crime family
2021-09-15
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Sweeping indictment Tuesday charges nine member of Colombo crime family

  • Street boss Andrew Russo, underboss Benjamin Castellazzo and consigliere Ralph DiMatteo were among those charged in the complex schemes

  • Another of those arrested, John 'Maniac' Ragano, is Bonanno family soldier

  • Indictment alleges a shakedown scheme to take over a Queens labor union

  • Mobsters used threats to divert union and healthcare funds, prosecutors say

  • Colombo family is one of the five families that control mob activity in NYC
Related:
Colombo crime family: 2019-03-09 Vacancy at Federal Prison Butner, NC: Madoff pal Carmine 'The Snake' Persico dead at 85
Colombo crime family: 2017-09-06 Corpse found in water identified as mob family member
Posted by:Skidmark

#12  â†‘↑↑ The timing is rather suspect...
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-09-15 18:41  

#11  But I guess they think child molesters are OK.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-09-15 18:33  

#10  Guess that's why they didn't care about the gymnasts.

Now they have a scapegoat.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-09-15 16:57  

#9  Or a bit too disagreeable with the current policies.

Its DM, and we know who they like to punch at.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-09-15 14:09  

#8  In truth their check to the DNC bounced
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom    2021-09-15 13:07  

#7  So the FBI "Again" ☺ has broken a Drug families.
Let's say they actually did COMPLETELY clean house this time.

I wonder which of the other Cartels will take up the slack?
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-09-15 12:18  

#6  They can take down an entire crime family (and how big would that be at this point?) but can't seem to get the 30 yr. old ANTIFA goons that live in Mom's basement? Wonder why?
Posted by: Warthog   2021-09-15 11:42  

#5  Huh, noone's done a "Just one more thing..." joke yet.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2021-09-15 11:04  

#4  "I'll take 'Headlines From Thirty-Something Years Ago' for $600, Alex..."
Posted by: Raj   2021-09-15 10:58  

#3  Wow! The FBI & DoJ going after actual criminals. I bet all the goverment guys on this get retired after this because they're obviously old school.
(Personally, I'm shocked to hear that there was a labor union in Queens available to be took over.)
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-09-15 10:22  

#2  The Colombo traces its roots to the Profaci bootleggers family formed in 1928. Thus its nearing a century in operation. The Profaci ruled the mob until the late 1950s, when an internal struggle involved its greediest. The "family" was reunited in the early 1960s under Joseph Colombo. After sixty years the claim (probably made by FBI propagandists) that the ENTIRE Colombo leadership was "taken down" really remains to be seen.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651   2021-09-15 10:19  

#1  That's impossible, we were reliably informed by the Famous But Incompetent some 40 odd years ago that they had broken the back of the Five Families.
Posted by: Cesare   2021-09-15 10:06  

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