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An “old school” Colombo crime family consigliere who notoriously was photographed lounging shirtless in a swimming pool was sentenced to three years behind bars for a labor union extortion ...
Furthermore, Colombo crime family members Russo, Castellazzo, Dimatteo, Ferrara, Persico, Vincent Ricciardo, Uvino joined with defendants Thompkins and Bellantoni, among others, to devise a scheme ...
A federal court judge on Tuesday ordered 82-year-old mobster Ralph DeLeo detained pending a hearing to revoke his supervised ...
Andrew “Mush” Russo, an alleged Colombo crime family boss, arrives at Brooklyn Federal Court in 2013. Russo was most recently arrested in January 2011, eventually pleading guilty to federal ...
In 2019, the Colombo crime family’s leaders broadened the extortion attempt by forcing John Doe #1 and other union officials to hire vendors associated with the Colombo family.
The Colombo crime family staged a protest today after its wiseguys were required to wear handcuffs during a hearing in the Brooklyn federal courthouse. “They feel humiliated,” Jonathan Marks ...
Colombo Family Crime Boss and 12 Others Are Arrested, Prosecutors Say. An indictment unsealed on Tuesday accuses the organization of orchestrating a two-decade scheme to extort a labor union.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Federal investigators dealt another blow to the Colombo crime family Thursday when a reputed Colombo captain was handed a nearly-six-year prison sentence in Brooklyn ...
Colombo family captains Theodore Persico, Jr., who was slated to become the crime family’s next boss, and Richard Ferrara also pleaded guilty to racketeering. Other defendants convicted of ...
A top lieutenant in the Colombo crime family pleaded guilty to racketeering for his role in the extortion of a high-ranking union official, capping a case brought in 2021 that was one of the ...
The feds allege that a high-ranking Colombo crime family boss was involved in the death of a former nun, according to documents unsealed today. Prosecutors claim that Thomas “Tommy Shots&#822… ...
Franzese Jr. became active in THE FAMILY business during the 1980s, leading to a life of overindulgence. ... "With the canvas of Sonny's reign within the Colombo crime family, ...