Colombo family boss, 11 others busted in NYC mob sweep: feds

[nizarsoccer]

Family head Andrew (Mush) Russo, 86, and his underboss were among those arrested, the source said. The gangsters also included one family soldier and six other associates of the Colombo family, with a total of 12 arrests made and one suspect still at large, the source said.



https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

[Dave65827]

Huge. It looks like it might tie in to Thomas Fareses recent arrest

[nizarsoccer]

Huge. It looks like it might tie in to Thomas Fareses recent arrest

Union corruption as well. Wonder if its Local 6A as always or something new.

[chin_gigante]

Castellazzo the arrested underboss.

An unnamed Bonanno soldier also arrested.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -raid.html

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigatio ... s/3270937/

[Pogo The Clown]

The Colombos are finished.

[OcSleeper]

The whole last known Colombo admin is off the street now.

[Dave65827]

I just saw in Twitter a snippet of the indictment and looks like solider Vincent Ricciardo got caught in tape telling a CW that he wanted to kill a man not complying with mafia demands these guys are fucked

[aleksandrored]

The complicated situation for Colombos, boss and underboss arrested, any chance of them becoming informers?

[nizarsoccer]

I just saw in Twitter a snippet of the indictment and looks like solider Vincent Ricciardo got caught in tape telling a CW that he wanted to kill a man not complying with mafia demands these guys are fucked

https://twitter.com/Noah__Goldberg/stat ... 83/photo/1

[Wiseguy]

Not much info with the few articles echoing each other. Press release from the Eastern District isn't even out yet.

[OcSleeper]

The complicated situation for Colombos, boss and underboss arrested, any chance of them becoming informers?

Doubtful. Farese was looking at 30 years in the 1980s and didn't flip, Russo was given 14 years in the 1980s and then another 10 in the late 1990s and never flipped and Castellazzo has served the least amount IIRC but can't see him flipping either.

[Dave65827]

It looks like the labor racketeering of the unknown union has been happening for the past 20 yrs according to this NYTimes article https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/nyre ... ested.html

Also appears there are more serious charges such drug traficking and money laundering as well


They also say the Colombo family is “thriving”

[Wiseguy]

It looks like the labor racketeering of the unknown union has been happening for the past 20 yrs according to this NYTimes article https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/nyre ... ested.html

Also appears there are more serious charges such drug traficking and money laundering as well


They also say the Colombo family is “thriving”

One would assume LIUNA Local 6A unless more info comes out.

[Adam]

Normally I would have thought a captain or two would go down with the boss and underboss. What with them being the top of the pyramid and also being in their 80s. That there'd be some middlemen. A buffer if you will.

[jmack]

Normally I would have thought a captain or two would go down with the boss and underboss. What with them being the top of the pyramid and also being in their 80s. That there'd be some middlemen. A buffer if you will.

Yeah, the family has a lot of buffers