Reputed Colombo crime boss Alphonse (Allie Boy) Persico allegedly waited six years after the truce in a bloody gang war to exact revenge against a powerful rival, a prosecutor charged Tuesday.

In the new book “Little Vic and the Great Mafia War,” former New York Daily News reporter Larry McShane delves into the 1990s gangland war that pitted infamous mobster Victor “Lit… ...

A former mob associate pleaded guilty today to lying about his role as a trigger-man in a double-hit during the Colombo crime family’s bloody factional war two decades ago. Anthony Colandra, 43 ...

The Colombo war Linda’s mother, Linda Schiro, was Scarpa’s mistress — she grew up thinking someone else was her father. Family life was complicated for the pampered Mafia princess.

Colombo crime family boss is freed on $5 million bond despite prosecutors' objections after he turned himself to police when his son posted of him lounging in a Florida pool while he was on the run ...

The Colombo crime family is the youngest of New York’s infamous Five Families . ... Joseph Scopo, during a civil war within the family in 1993.

Millennial mobsters are giving the Mafia some big issues. Look no further than last month's arrest of the alleged leader of New York's Colombo crime family, Andrew Russo. He was arrested for two ...

Tom Robbins writes about Chris Colombo, the son of the late Joseph Colombo, Sr., a former don of the Colombo Mob family, one of the five families of New York City’s Italian American Mafia.

Formed in 1931 after the Castellammarese War, the Five Families of New York became known as the backbone of the American Mafia. These families have played significant roles in the history of ...

The Colombo-Venezuelan Guerrillas: How Colombia’s War Migrated to Venezuela Download the full report (PDF) For twenty years, Venezuela was a refuge for Colombia’s Marxist guerrillas, a place where ...