Apologies if this has been posted before, but I came across this and found it to be a really interesting read.

https://thecolombomafia.com/andrew-russo

This was a great article with a lot of insight about Andy Mush and the Colombo's. Thank you for posting it. He is a very good and capable street boss and would make, I feel a great boss of the family.

He is pushing 90
He maybe could be a helpful consigliere

But boss?

Like he said, "He just can't walk away" so he is in it for life just like me I'm working my retail job till I die....

Good article. So whats the status of the Columbos today?

I know that feeling..LOL

Little Allie,Boy is the boss and like his father until his death. Russo is a good street boss.

In 2000 after they had the ok to made new members the family was rebuilted and now is pretty active but its still the more weak of the 5 families.

Okay, thanks Furio. I find it hard to believe they're weaker than the Bonanno's and the Luchese's though. Maybe ten years ago, but now in my opinion those two are behind the Columbo's. Bonanno's Boss turned informant wrecking the families leadership and rackets. The Luchese's suffered huge arrests in gambling and drugs. The Columbo's have quietly rebuilt and seem to me under the radar and under valued have made them stronger. keep in mind I'm not saying bigger, just saying possibly stronger and more stable. The family ties and the fact I don't think ANY family wants to go against them violence wise.

Weak in the sense that they are confinate to NY while the Lucchese have a huge NJ crew and the Bonnano recovered well after Massino flipping and had almost 130 made men. For sure they are making money but havent the white collar racket that the other families have. For if a family would against them I think that a mob war today would be a disaster in terms of arrests and flipping so if the other family would want to damage the Colombos can symple stop making common bussinesses with them.

https://thecolombomafia.com/

A good site on only the Colombo Family.

Thank you Furio. It makes you wonder why Allie Boy placed Ralphie DeLeo as street boss? It is funny to read in the below article how overwhelmed he was with his new role and not very smart talking over the phone about certain things.

http://archive.boston.com/news/loca...e_boss_deleo_ran_crew_in_greater_boston/

He meet Allie Boy in prison and was so smart to become friend of him and took advantage of the fact that the Colombos desperately needed men who made money.The Persicos barely know a man that for the rules of Cosa Nostra can't be made (flipped on who ordered him a murder in the 1970s) and despite it made him street boss.That how the Persicos was ruling the family.
DeLeo would be 82 in 2025 when will go out.I hope he would understand that its better to retire.

So, it is safe to assume that the Colombo's are not as strong as people imagine compared to the other NY families due to the Persico leadership through the years has really internally damaged the family.

I'm only speculating, but posters here on here love to put the Columbo's down. I don't and I actually believe they're ahead of the Bonnano's and Luchese's today. As far as Furios reasoning, just because the Bonanno's have 130 men doesn't mean they're a strong family. And how have they recovered exactly to place them above the Columbo's. The Luchese family in NJ exists in reputation only for the most part. Does the crew exist? Sure it does but as far as power and influence and making money, not on the serious level. Maybe I'm wrong but Columbo's are just as strong if not stronger than those two.

I never said that Colombos are down but that there are the more weak of the 5 families.They are confinated in NY for short had a crew in Massachusset under DeLeo but no more,after Randazzo murder doesn't had a crew in NJ.The Lucchese have 20-30 made men in NJ under the Pernas and what power what influence? The Gambinos still have construction rackets and unions like the Genovese that have the unions and the ports what's the unions controlled by the Colombos? They are a blue collar family.

I'm not arguing with you Furio, but the Genovese and Gambino's weren't in our discussion. There is no way the Perna's have 20-30 made men in NJ, no way. That may have ben true years ago, not now. If you want to change my mind about that you'd have to provide facts, like names and locations they operate in NJ. Having a crew in NJ doesn't make you strong or big. So change my mind with specifics. The Perna's may still be alive, and around, and in fact not all that bright since the one son went to jail for hauling a bunch of marijuana in a car in plain site but that's another argument. But that doesn't mean they're all that relevant but I can be convinced with specifics that I'm not aware of.

I would put the Colombo’s ahead of the bonnanos just due to they’re control of some of the operating engineers unions,trucking companies and the concrete Union and influence w the district council

https://eu.app.com/story/news/inves...ill-here-port-newark-suburbs/3268727002/

Mob NJ: The Mafia is still here, tied to Port Newark and the suburbs

The USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey learned the state remains a hunting ground for mobsters tied to Philadelphia and New York City. Two of the notorious five New York crime families — Lucchese and Genovese — operate in New Jersey, mob experts said. The Network also found documents identifying recent New Jersey ties to the Bonnano and Gambino families.

Taking over a company: A Galloway member of the Lucchese crime family was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2015 in connection to a scheme whereby he and others, including an associate of the Philadelphia crime family, conspired to take over a Texas financial services company and funnel millions of dollars from the company to themselves.

In one recent example, a Bonanno crime family captain was connected to a scheme in which a “dirt broker” trucked in demolition waste, including dirt tainted with a cancer-causing substance, to fill in backyards eroded by superstorm Sandy along the edge of Raritan Bay in the Cliffwood Beach section of Old Bridge, according to a 2017 report by the State Commission of Investigation.