Two convicted killers — including mob capo Anthony Russo, who ordered murders during the bloody Colombo crime family civil war ... tasked with expanding his gang’s influence from Brooklyn ...

Extortion, loansharking, fraud, and drug-trafficking enriched the defendants and promoted the continued operation of the Colombo organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra ... of Justice’s Organized ...

Persico Jr., the legendary Mafia boss who clung to the role of head of the Colombo crime family while serving a ... Persico began life as a street gang member in Brooklyn in the early 1950s ...

LONDON, May 12 (Reuters) - Michael Franzese was a high ranking member of the Italian-American Colombo crime family before he walked ... mafia as the ultimate gang in the world so when I speak ...