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	Joe Colombo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Colombo became head of what was then known as the Profaci family in 1962, following the deaths of family founder Joe Profaci and his successor, Joe Magliocco.
		In the spring of 1970, Colombo responded to increasing FBI scrutiny of his activities by picketing FBI offices in New York City, claiming that the FBI was harassing Italian-Americans.
		Colombo was replaced as head of the Colombo family by Vincent Alo, and his assassination touched off a second intra-family war with the Gallo forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colombo_Family (578 words)

	Mafia International - joe bonanno
		Although Colombo was eminently qualified for this triple-header of a hit, and although Magliocco considered him to be one of his most capable captains, there was one thing he didn't know about Joe.
		Colombo would remain that way for the next seven years, and although this didn't bring about the end of Colombo it did bring an end to the Italian-American civil rights league.
		Many rumours surfaced as to who and why Colombo was to be hit, but I think the most obvious answer is to understand the fact that by continuing with the civil rights league he went against the wishes of Carlo Gambino, and by doing this Colombo signed his own death warrant.
	glasgowcrew.tripod.com /columbo.html (983 words)

	Fall tradition takes center stage - The Boston Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While the Colombo siblings were performing on the field, their father, Armond Colombo, was close by.
		The family matriarch -- Armond's wife, Peter's mother -- is the sister of Rocky Marciano, who became the pride of Brockton as the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world in the 1950s.
		While the elder Colombo may not be as involved, former players, teachers, and people in the community have not forgotten his contributions.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2005/09/08/fall_tradition_takes_center_stage (872 words)

	The Colombo Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Colombo was killed by a single gunman, a fl man named Jerome Johnson.
		Gambino was angry at Colombo for all of the press that he was attracting.
		Colombo was in a coma for seven years, but died in 1978.
	www.carvelli.com /noFlash/colombo-family.html (472 words)

	AmericanMafia.com 26 Mafia Cities - New York, New Jersey
		The family names come from him, because he testified as to who the bosses were of the five families at the time of his arrest in 1959.
		Gotti then took control of the family and was known as the "teflon don" for his acquital in three separate trials in the late 1980's.
		From 1930 to 1953, the family was led by Gaetano Gagliano.
	www.americanmafia.com /Cities/New_York_New_Jersey.html (2607 words)

	United States v. Langella, 804 F.2d 185 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Persico indictment concerned the "Colombo Family of La Cosa Nostra," whereas the Salerno indictment alleges as the pertinent enterprise the "Commission of La Cosa Nostra." We reject Langella's argument that both indictments charge the enterprise to be La Cosa Nostra.
		Although the Commission and the Colombo Family, in a sense, are vertically organized segments of an intricate, organized crime structure, the allegations of the two indictments sufficiently demonstrate that they are two separate and independent criminal enterprises.
		Significantly, the Colombo Family is not merely a lower level of authority within the hierarchy of organized crime: Within its own sphere of operation, the Colombo Family is a self-sufficient enterprise that functions without oversight by the Commission.
	www.thelaborers.net /lexisnexis/804_f2d_185-langella.htm (2730 words)

	La Cosa Nostra: The-Sopranos.com
		Colombo started the Italian American Civil Rights Leage when his son was arrested in a conspiracy.
		Johnson shot Colombo in the head and was shot dead by Colombo's bodyguards.
		He took over a very weakened Family that was hurt by civil wars and Federal indictmens and convictions.
	www.the-sopranos.com /lcn/colombo.htm (416 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - JOE COLOMBO
		Colombo isn't just famous for his criminal activities though, he also founded the Italian-American Civil Rights League, of which he also was boss.
		Colombo was a small squarly built muscular man who could change from that well spoken man into a raging bull within a second.
		Colombo had proved himself to be a capable man. He was part of a five man hitteam, he and his squad were at least credited with 15 kills.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /JoeColombo.html (1265 words)

	Colombo Family
		Joe Profaci, boss, and Joe Magliocco, underboss, were the only leaders of the five Families of New York to maintain their positions after the Castellammarese War.
		Colombo (left) started an Italian civil rights organization which met with success, and Colombo soon had visions of fame.
		Not to their displeasure, Colombo was shot by a lone fl gunman at a rally.
	mafiasite.8m.com /colombo.htm (318 words)

	law.com - Decision
		The case was known colloquially as the Persico case, based on the name of the leader of the Colombo family at the time, Carmine Persico.
		The evidence that Hickey belonged to the same Mafia family as Andrew and Joseph Russo, and that Joseph was a captain, explained Hickey's motivation to conceal Castranova.
		He was furthering a conspiracy to operate the Colombo family, a conspiracy in which he was involved with Andrew Russo and Hickey.
	www.law.com /jsp/decisionstate.jsp?id=1029689060133 (3515 words)

	Colombo Crime Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The first don of what was later called the Colombo crime family, Joe Profaci, came to power upon the conclusion of the Castellammarese War.
		Profaci thus served with Lucky Luciano, Vince Mangano, Joe Bonanno and Tom Gagliano as head of one of the five Mafia families in New York that comprised the nucleus of the Mafia force in the national crime syndicate.
		Despite the fact that hostility between Colombo and the FBI made it the most intensely watched crime family, it took the government three years to discover the new boss was Thomas DiBella.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/colf.html (1074 words)

	Colombo Crime Family - The Crime library
		The league named Joe Colombo its Man of the Year in May of that year, even though in March he had been slapped with a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for lying on his application for a real-estate broker's license.
		Some of the bosses of the other families were not pleased.
		By the time the second annual rally rolled around, Joe Colombo, the self-appointed civil rights leader, was walking on thin ice.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/colombo/1.html (998 words)

	Turning Milk into Gold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The couple still live in town, and Colombosian's Andover contemporaries remember visiting his family's farm and trying the yogurt before it was ever sold in stores.
		Residents who meet at Old Town Hall's Drop-In Center know well the Colombo family and the business that sunk its roots in town in 1929, as the TV ad starring Bob Colombo explains.
		Bob Colombo - short for Colombosian - is the son of Rose Colombosian, an Armenian woman who lived in town and invented the now-famous yogurt.
	www.andovertownsman.com /news/20010816/FP_001.html (893 words)

	Colombo
		THE Colombo Crime Family is the only New York City family to become known by a name other than the one given to law enforcement by Joe Valachi - the first soldier to publicly break the vow of omerta.
		For many years it was known as the Profaci Family in recognition of the more than thirty year reign of Joe Profaci, who took over the organization in the late twenties.
		At that moment in 1971, Colombo was shot and severly wounded by a lone fl gunman as he was about to preside at a large Italian American Civil Rights League rally.
	www.ganglandnews.com /colombo.htm (1533 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		Malpeso contends that the excluded evidence would have shown that the alleged Colombo war was in fact a coup instigated by Scarpa and DeVecchio, and that Malpeso had no intent to violate 18 U.S.C. § 1959, because he was merely acting to protect himself and not acting to increase his position within the Colombo Family.
		Throughout the Colombo war, DeVecchio was the supervisor of C-10, the FBI squad investigating the Colombo and Bonanno crime families.
		As we have observed in related cases, an associate in the Colombo Family is an individual who has not become a "made" member of the family, that is, formally inducted into the family, but who participates in the family's activities, typically with aspirations of becoming a made member.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=2nd&navby=case&no=961237 (7307 words)

	Secrets of the Dead . Gangland Graveyard \| PBS
		Like other New York crime families, the Bonanno Family was founded in the aftermath of the Castellamarese War of the late 1920s and early 1930s, which pitted Chicago's Al Capone against members of the Castellamarese family (whose members hailed from the Castellamarese region of Sicily) for control of the bootleg liquor business.
		Following Maranzano's death, the New York Castellamarese family elected a new boss, 26-year-old Joseph Bonanno, who became the youngest boss of the "Five Families" that formed the national crime syndicate.
		Rastelli expanded the family operations and formed a network of front businesses that trafficked narcotics, called the "Pizza Connection." During his tenure, however, the family was infiltrated by undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone, "Donnie Brasco," whose later testimony led to the conviction of over 120 Bonanno Family members.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/secrets/case_gangland (672 words)

	Alleged Colombo boss back in federal custody
		Five years after he was acquitted of ordering murders from prison in a Mafia war, the alleged head of the Colombo crime family was back in federal custody yesterday, ordered held without bail on loan-sharking charges.
		The complaint said investigators found legal papers in his apartment relating to other Colombo court cases, showing that Persico was stilll involved in the family's activities.
		Persico was acquitted in 1994 in a racketeering and murder case stemming from a reported war for control of the Colombo family.
	www.th-record.com /1999/10/11/persicoa.htm (516 words)

	law.com - Hearsay on Organized Crime Admissible, 2nd Circuit Rules
		In a victory for Eastern District prosecutors, the 2nd Circuit said that hearsay statements showing that two defendants belonged to the Colombo crime family were properly admitted to show how the men schemed to hide a key witness in a jury tampering investigation.
		The investigation focused on the so-called Persico trial, a 1994 racketeering and murder case in which Andrew Russo's son, Joseph, and four others accused of being members of the Colombo family were convicted.
		Although Trager was careful to instruct the jury that simple affiliation with the Colombo family was insufficient to convict the defendants, both men claimed on appeal that the evidence was irrelevant and prejudicial.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1029689063929 (899 words)

	Colombo Family Crest by Houseofnames.com
		We have researched the Colombo family crest in the most recognized sources of coats of arms.
		In the Colombo coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
		No families, not even the royal houses, can make sound claim to the right to bear arms unless a proven connection is established through attested Genealogical records...
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.familycrest_details/s.Colombo/Colombo_family_Crest/Colombo_coat_of_arms/qx/Colombo.htm?a=54323-224 (444 words)

	The Bonanno and Gallo Wars
		Colombo made it clear that he felt he owed Gallo nothing and refused to any type of agreement.
		Colombo had arranged for a large rally to take place, with a personal speech to set the tone for the activities.
		Colombo did not die immediately but lingered for a period of time being little more than a vegetable.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/organized_crime/30666/2 (457 words)

	From THE DISCOVERY OF NORTH AMERICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		These revealing deeds (most of which were discovered in the 19th century) pertaining to a Colombo family were selected among thousands of such documents and construed by scholars to constitute proof that Columbus was a Colombo born in Genoa or nearby between August 26 and October 30, 1451.
		Once the Colombo last name was accepted as equally valid as that of "Colón," the last name of Christopher (as shown in his testament), the next step was to determine what, in fact, his father's name was.
		Campi further stated that eventually Anton Francesco Colombo was forced to abandon the case before becoming a petitioner at the Court of Spain because the original of a particular document he considered essential to his case was in Genoa.
	muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/tagliattini.html (19704 words)

	New York Crime Families
		Basciano is accused of being a soldier in the Bonanno crime family, and Breton was accused of being an associate of the Gambino crime family.
		The Gambino crime family was hit hard by federal authorities on September 27 when nine men said to be key members and associates were indicted on federal charges, including involvement in a stripper's murder.
		Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, imprisoned for life for murder and racketeering eight years ago, is suffering a recurrence of throat cancer first diagnosed in 1998.
	da_wizeguy.tripod.com /omerta/id22.html (1882 words)

	Greenville attorney selected N.C. Bar Association president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Colombo is a partner in the firm of Colombo, Kitchin, Dunn and Ball, which he formed in 1983 with Walt Kitchin.
		The Colombo family resided in Bladenboro when he was born in Lumberton and subsequently moved to Williams Township (Columbus County), Robersonville, Plymouth and Rocky Mount, where Mike Colombo graduated from Rocky Mount Senior High in 1966.
		Colombo will be installed as the 111th president of the NCBA on June 25, 2005, when the NCBA annual meeting returns to Asheville.
	www.reflector.com /news/newsfd/auto/feed/news/2004/06/20/1087706686.02632.3942.8268.html (577 words)

	The Colombos: Introduction
		The conversation is between him and Colombo Crime Family capo Salvatore Profaci, son of the late Joseph Profaci, founding father of the crime family now known as the Colombos.
		The Profaci/Colombo family was a congress that embodied then, and in the future, the ingredients for a rich mixture of the macabre and unusual:
		A gangster who rose to power by the time he was 32; who generated, illegally, hundreds of millions of dollars from a gasoline tax evasion scheme and became one of the richest mobster’s ever, and gave it all up for the love of a young Mexican-American girl.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters/colombo/main.htm (1064 words)

	Black Market News
		Christopher Colombo, son of the assassinated mob chief Joseph Colombo, was indicted on racketeering charges in March 2004 and released on $1 million bail.
		Daggett and Coffey were charged with conspiring with the Genovese crime family to install Daggett as the mob-controlled puppet president of the ILA.
		Prosecutors are expecting to use evidence of at least a half dozen additional gangland killings in the upcoming trial of the "Mafia Cops," according to court documents and sources familiar with the case.
	blackmarketnews.blogspot.com (3642 words)

	CNN.com - Two sons of late Colombo mob boss indicted - Mar 30, 2004
		It alleges the two Colombos and their associate schemed to take over legitimate construction companies and then used their control of those companies to defraud a publicly traded Internet advertising company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
		Anthony and Christopher Colombo were members of the "Colombo brothers crew," an offshoot of the crime family.
		The brothers' group was formed in the mid-1990s after a bloody civil war within the crime family, which led to the murders of numerous soldiers and associates of the organization.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/LAW/03/30/colombo.indictment (373 words)

	Cerberus Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Colombo family, AKA the Profaci family, is one of the five New York Mafia groups that ran organized crime since the Depression.
		Donny Shacks was one of 11 Colombo Family members convicted in 1984 on racketeering and sentenced to 12 years in the Federal BOP.
		That was his main function for the Colombo family and for organized crime in general.
	www.sparkpod.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/sparkpod.woa/wa/view?1012902 (753 words)

	Joe Colombo Returns To The Fray
		The gang he once headed, the Colombo crime family, lands in the news fairly regularly, but not the long-deceased patriarch who was dramatically gunned down in 1971 while leading a huge protest rally against what he claimed was anti-Italian bias by the FBI.
		And while their father can’t be happy his sons have been disowned by the family that carries his name, he’s probably smiling at the way they have carried on without the family’s blessing.
		Garaufis (left) ordered prosecutors to expunge all references to the “Massino family” from the indictment because those words would be “inflammatory” and likely to hurt Massino with jurors during their deliberations at the end of the trial.
	www.ganglandnews.com /column377.htm (992 words)

	F's Place
		The family members, comprising, old man “Papa” Menezes, and sons, Mickey, Tom and Ralph, and daughter, Helen, were all very talented musicians, each specializing in his own instrument yet having the ability to play any instrument he or she was called upon to.
		The children moved to different locations within Colombo subsequent to their marriages and Fareeda and her daughter, Dina and family, still live at No. 15 having inherited part of the estate of her father after it was sold and disbursed subsequent to the heirs after his death.
		The family were very wealthy owning and managing a very lucrative textile store in the Pettah which was built and run successfully by their ancestors.
	kermeey.blogspot.com (19117 words)

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