It was Don Carlo and Jr. Persico. And they made it look like Crazy Joey Gallo was behind it (in order to set him up for later). Crazy Joey made a lot of connections with black thugs and gangsters while he was in the can, and everyone knew that. So Gambino and Persico used Jerome Johnson for the hit and got Colombo's bodyguard in on it to whack Johnson as soon as it was done.


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