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The Colombo crime family (/ k ə ˈ l ɒ m. b oʊ /, Italian pronunciation:) 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.
Joseph Anthony Colombo Sr. (Italian:; June 16, 1923 – May 22, 1978) was the boss of the Colombo crime family, one of the Five Families of the American Mafia in New York City. Colombo was born in New York City, where his father was an early member of what was then the Profaci crime family.
Colombo English Name Native Name [2] 1 Colombo Fort: Kotuwa 2 Slave Island: Kompanyaweediya 3 Colpetty: Kollupitiya 4 Bambalapitiya; 5 Narahenpita, Havelock Town, Kirulapona North 6 Wellawatta, Pamankada, Kirulapona South 7 Cinnamon Garden: Kurunduwatte 8 Borella; 9 Dematagoda; 10 Maradana: 11 Pettah: Pitakotuwa 12 Hulftsdorp Aluthkade: 13 ...
Lorenzo Colombo (born 8 March 2002) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Empoli, on loan from AC Milan. [2] Club career.
Before Peter Falk was cast in the role of Columbo, Bert Freed played the character in "Enough Rope", a 1960 episode of The Chevy Mystery Show, a TV anthology series.In 1962, that episode became a stage play titled Prescription: Murder, which starred Thomas Mitchell as Columbo, Joseph Cotten and Agnes Moorehead as Roy and Claire Flemming, and Patricia Medina as Flemming's mistress.
Thomas "Tom" DiBella (November 29, 1905 – June 6, 1988) was an American mobster and one-time acting boss of the Colombo crime family. [1] [2] References
During the First Colombo War, Illiano allegedly wounded Profaci mobster Hugh McIntosh in a sniper attack. [5] Illiano also allegedly planted a bomb underneath Carmine Persico's car. The bomb exploded but Persico escaped death. [5] After Profaci's death in 1962, the conflict continued with Profaci's successor, Joseph Magliocco, until his 1963 ...
Roy Lindley DeVecchio (born April 18, 1940) is a former U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent in charge of managing mob informants. [2] [3] DeVecchio worked for the FBI during the Mafia wars in New York during the 1980s and 1990s, eventually rising to head of the FBI squad responsible for surveillance of the Colombo crime family.