The son and grandson of a late Colombo crime family mob boss have been busted on federal weapons charges after a huge stash of ghost guns was found at their Staten Island home, law enforcement ...

Carmine J. Persico, the unpredictable leader of the New York-based Colombo crime family who the authorities believe had a strong hand in the assassinations of mob bosses Albert Anastasia and Joey ...

As part of his FBI deal, Gravano — who admitted to carrying out his first mob hit in 1970 (for the Colombo family) — confessed to involvement in 19 murders, including the killings of his best ...

Joseph Colombo, head of New York City's Colombo crime family, reportedly struck a deal with Paramount Pictures to sanitize the film's script by removing the word "Mafia" to present a less-negative ...

A high-level Colombo crime family leader pleaded guilty Thursday to federal racketeering and money laundering charges. Reputed mob consigliere Ralph DiMatteo, 68, stood in Brooklyn Federal Court an… ...

Mob boss DeLeo’s been off the streets for a while, but that hasn’t kept the feds from coming after him. The 69-year-old Colombo Family ‘Street Boss’, of Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in Boston Federal ...

An “old school” Colombo crime family consigliere who notoriously was photographed lounging shirtless in a swimming pool was sentenced to three years behind bars for a labor union extortion ...

Organized crime sweeps tend to be covered in the same predictable way: you get a rundown of who got nabbed, where it happened and for ...

Mafia Was Involved in Making of 'The Godfather'? During the production of the movie masterpiece, director Francis Ford Coppola found himself entangled with real-life New York mob figures.

Carmine J. Persico, who emerged from gangland Brooklyn to become the unpredictable boss of one of the nation’s most powerful Mafia organizations in an era when the mob in New York was at the ...