Michael was godfather to John’s son, John Jr.” Carmine Persico, boss of the Colombo crime family, poses for a 1986 portrait at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.

In 1979, the FBI’s Brooklyn-Queens office received a blockbuster tip that launched one of its most ambitious, maddening, and ...

The targets were supposed to be associated with the powerful Colombo family ... one of the mafia's legendary "five families." In particular, Carmine Galante, or "Lilo" (meaning cigar in Italian ...

Assistant US Attorney Sean Sherman told a federal jury during closing arguments at Rosario’s trial that the allegedly dirty cop took $1,500 per month from the Bonanno crime family, then “lied ...

A former New York detective who moonlighted by working for a mafia family and helped fuel a mini ... The other mafia clans in New York are the Colombo, Gambino and Lucchese families.

The 69-year-old Colombo Family ‘Street Boss’, of Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in Boston Federal court Thursday to racketeering conspiracy and illegal possession of firearms, the Justice Department ...

Former Nassau County cop Hector Rosario was accused of moonlighting for the Bonanno crime family while on the job. Gabriella Bass They said Rosario waged war on the Genovese mob on behalf of his ...

A longtime friend of the family of a child murdered on Friday and that child's mother, wounded by gunfire, released a statement Sunday on the deadly Northland crime spree. "The family appreciates ...

Hector Rosario had hoped to earn big from his work for the Bonanno crime family. He wound up with about ... Lucchese and Colombo — with cases against their leaders. Now, where the families ...