Colombo, Joseph A., Sr.

Colombo, Joseph A., Sr.

▪ American criminal
born June 16, 1923, New York, N.Y., U.S.
died May 22, 1978, Newburgh, N.Y.

      major organized crime boss in Brooklyn who founded an Italian-American Civil Rights League to deflect government investigations of his activities.

      Brooklyn-born, Colombo was still a teenager when his father, Anthony, was killed in 1938 in a gangland war. After service in the Coast Guard during World War II, he drifted into a life of petty crime. Gradually he rose in the ranks of organized crime to become head of one of New York's Five Families in 1964, inheriting the leadership once held by Joseph Profaci and temporarily quelling a gang war within the ranks. Colombo's activities included numbers and sports gambling, hijacking, fencing stolen goods, and loansharking and also included interests in at least 20 legitimate businesses in New York City.

      Angered by the FBI's harassment of him and his family, he began protesting publicly and helped found the Italian-American Civil Rights League in 1970; his son Andrew was its vice president. On June 28, 1971, Colombo, speaking at an Italian-American rally in Columbus Circle, was shot by a young black man, who was himself immediately slain. Colombo was probably the target of the followers of Joseph Gallo, with whom Colombo had fought gang wars for a decade.

      Colombo, almost totally paralyzed by the gun wound, died seven years later, after declining into a coma.

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