Pogo The Clown wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 3:01 pm
Curious when the was the last Colombo hit? The 2003 shooting of Joe Campanella? The last murder in 1999 with Cutolo? They be the family that has gone the longest without a hit.
Pogo
The 2001* shooting of Campanella. Yeah, a full 19 years ago, lol. Since then, there have been no murders that have gone beyond the "conspiracy" stage. But there have been plenty of those. Off the top of my head, I can think of John Franzese giving Chris Curanovic approval to whack his brother's suspected killer (and a detailed hit planned by Curanovic) in around '07 (IIRC), Mickey Souza's planned assassination of Hector Pagan in '06 that looked like it was about to go the full mile until the feds put the kibosh on it. We've got Teddy Persico's alleged murder conspiracy of George Fanelli in '04, as well as further discussions of murder by Teddy from '08-'10, including one discussion in which Teddy told informant Steve Marcus that he was seeking approval from Michael Persico on some hits.
EDIT: Murder conspiracy against Nicky Lanza too, but I don't know anything beyond a general murder conspiracy against Lanza that was cited in court papers. I don't know who was planning the hit itself, but the common link to Lanza and the rest of the Colombos is through Nicky Rizzo and Tommy Gioeli's crew, who were incredibly powerful during this timeframe (early '00s). Lanza's house was also firebombed twice.
This is just off the top of my head, I know there are more murder conspiracies that get a bit more dubious. Like, for instance, John Franzese apparently authorized John Gotti Junior's murder in the mid '00s, but I don't think anybody (both within the mob and in LE) really cared nor worried about it.