Joseph Colombo was apart of the Colombo family obviously but before it was called the Colombo family it was called the profaci family. The name changed in 1963 when Joseph became the capo. Joseph was unlike any capo before...or since. He didn't shun the spotlight one bit. When the FBI began scrutinizing his activities, Colombo responded by calling it harassment against Italian-americans. He even went so far as to organize the italian-american civil rights league. His group began doing demonstrations such as picketing outside of the new York FBI building. He attracted the likes of government officials as well as prominent entertainers like frank sinatra, to help his cause, and he received a lot of national attention. It was at one such italian-american rally that Joe Colombo approached the podium and was shot three times in the head by a man named Jerome Johnson. A second gunman appeared and shot Johnson and disappeared into the crowd. To this day nobody knows for sure who was really behind Colombo's death (or do they). Many argue that it was joey gallo, a member of the Colombo family and critic of joe Colombo's. Others argue Carlo gambino set it up.
"The attorney general hates out guts. I think the president is behind it. I want to make the league the greatest organization in the country, the greatest organization in the world, so that people will be proud of us no matter what we do, where we are --even in we are in prison."
-Joe colombo
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The Mafia History And Legends
Fiksi SejarahThis is going to be about the history of mafias like the Sicilian mafia or the big seven there will also be legends about the mafia or just about the mafia leader like Abner zwillman Hope you like
