Colianni was an alleged made guy who was president of the C and B Meat Provision Company which supplied cuts of meat to Gold Coast nightclubs on the North Side of Chicago. The clubs placed orders with Colianni's company on the "recommendation" of Joe DiVarco and Jimmy Allegretti, among others.

He had also had a hand in barber shop rackets, of all things, as a "special investigator", a position that was assigned by the Chicago Master Barbers Association to act as mediators for the barber workforce but instead influenced the inflation of haircut prices. They were forced to resign when a Senate investigating committee put pressure on the secretary-treasurer of the barber association, who feigned ignorance when informed of his investigators' criminal records. When confronted by other members of the association, he was also unable to explain why hiring these men required a quarter-million dollar expenditure of association funds.