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Colombo crime family
The Colombo crime family is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and the youngest of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City within the criminal organization known as the American Mafia. Wikipedia
Founder: Joe Profaci
Ethnicity: Italians as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates
Founded: 1928; 96 years ago
Membership (est.): 112 made members and 500 associates (2004)
Named after: Joseph Colombo
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In 1961, the First Colombo War unfolded, instigated by the kidnapping of four high-ranking members in the Profaci family by Joe Gallo. Later that year, Gallo ...
An all-out gang war erupted between the two family factions. ... For much of 1961 and 1962, the Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese bosses pressured Profaci to retire.
On June 20, 1991, a five-man hit team led by Persicos consigliere Carmine Sessa converged on Orenas home on Long Island , ready to take him out. But one of the ...