Is this guy actually related to ‘the’ Colombo’s? The HBO documentary says he’s part of the Colombo Family but I can’t find out how he’s related.

McMillions Scam

His mother said they are to a few people. The Uncle Dominic mention was an associate to the Colombo crime family in New York who passed away in the mid 90s, still looking for matches. Gennaro and his family are actually connected to the Colombo clan in Sicily. It is possible that Dominic was made in Sicily, came to the states and associated with the Colombo crime family, happens all the time with members coming over still keeping their membership from there but associating with U.S. families.
As for who tipped off about the scam, it is most likely someone close to Robin. Someone who was close to Gennaro is a possibility, but evidence does not add up with that possibility, and I doubt Gennaro own family would have tipped off about the scam.
One inconsistency is how Colombo and Jacobson met. Robin says through Uncle Dominic, but Jacobson has admittedly claims they met at the airport in Atlanta Georgia waiting for their flights. They began talking and thus they figured they could help each other out. It was by chance. After Colombo died, Jacobson took bigger risks and led to his down fall.

These people are a bunch of clowns.....

yaeh pretty much yonkers but is sure entertaining. ive seen the first 2 episodes its cold as shit today high 30degrees might binge the rest. the mob connection is a reach aand some stretch the truth whats the name for it in hollywood when they take something real and twist it a little to make it more hollywood.... artisic something

artistic creativity??

hunters on amazon prime is ok based on true events they say.....

I believe that would be artistic license pmac. I only made it through 20 minutes. Pretty damn boring documentary.

yes yes. the fbi agent seems pretty sure of himself

dont fuck with cats on netflix is my winner of best crime doc this year

Artistic license? If you liked don't fuck with cats... Check out the Pharmacist. Blew my mind. It's on Netflix as well.

I've been meaning to check that one out.



Embellishing for the sake of entertainment. They did a shit job on this one.

i caught the first episode of the pharmacist its good i just forgot to go back after the first ep. think it was a nice day.

I kind of expected the mob connection was BS when I could find no connection myself online

lmao that fbi agent is a fuckin douchebag talking about being in danger when they were undercover recording the fat guy that won, ridiculously smug asshole trying to make it seem like there was even the slightest hint of a threat there

Robin said that the McDonald’s scam was along the lines of Capone with prohibition and Franzese with gas. I really don’t believe that but something that stood out to me was her saying he was “old school Sicilian” but then said he was in a commercial for McDonalds and wanted to be in movies.

yaeh the guy thinks hes a regular joe pistone. speaking of pistone is he really 80ty yrs old according to wiki? he looks healthy as shit for 80ty, maybe 70ty i cant see 80ty. i just seen some recent interviews him still stretching the facts but he looks young like 66ish

Pistone said that by the time he went undercover as a jewel thief in the Colombo crime family in 1976 he was pushing 40. So I think he is 80 or older now.

wow guy looks young maybe makeup