Allie Boy had the title but I think that the capos doesn't want to repeat the snake situation and prefer to have a free on the street boss.
Andrew Russo is too old,nothing rising stars?

andy russo has more respect then almost anyone. hes probaly boss if in title only. he was old and living in florida 10yrs ago he was on wire saying he doesnt care if he died in jail. him being carmine cousin im sure he was at the wake funeral and probaly if healthy took over

if your family is as strong as your boss andy russo is up there

how many members do they have ?

Thats a good question, in this day and age who wants to be counted.

Administration:
1. Boss: ?????
Acting Boss: Alphonse "Little Allie Boy" Persico/63 (IP/L)
-Street Boss: Andrew "Andy Mush" Russo/83
2. UnderBoss: Benjamin "The Little Guy/Claw/Benji" Castellazzo/80 
-Acting UnderBoss: Dominic "Donny Shacks" Montemarano/79
3. Consiglieri: ?????
-Acting Consiglieri: Thomas “Tom Mix/Mr. T” Farese/75


Capos:
1. Joseph Amato/61 - Brooklyn and Staten Island
2. Joseph Baudanza/73 - Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island
3. Dennis "Fat/Little/The Beard" DeLucia/76 - Brooklyn and the Bronx
4. Thomas “Tom Mix/Mr. T” Farese/75 – South Florida
5. Ralph Lombardo Sr/87/Luca DiMatteo/73 – Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island
6. Theodore "Skinny Teddy" Persico Jr/54 (IP/8/21/2020) - Brooklyn
7. Thomas Petrizzo/84 - Brooklyn
8. William “Billy” Russo/56 - Brooklyn and Long Island
9. Michael Uvino/52/Michael Catapano/54 – Brooklyn and Long Island


Soldiers: (Some of these guys are no longer active) 
Sebastian Aloi Jr/79
Vincent "Vinny" Aloi/93
Joseph “Chubby” Audino/76
Dominic Bretti/83 
Carmine Baudanza/75
Salvatore “Sally Bread” Cambria/66
Daniel Capaldo/50
Salvatore “Sally Boy/From Coney Island” Castagno/61/Acting Capo
Jerry “Fat Jerry” Ciauri/59 (UI)
Gerard “Jerry Green Eyes” Clamenza/65
Alphonse “Funzi” D’Ambrosio/93 (Might be dead)
Andre D'Apice/43
Vito “Victor/The Mask” DiFalco/63 (UI)
Robert “Rob” Donofrio/61
Emanuele “Manny” Favuzza/57 
Vincent “Jimmy Gooch” Febbraro/84 
Michael “Mikey” Ferrara 
John "Sonny" Franzese/102 
Salvatore "Two Pair" Fusco Jr/53
Gary “Gary from Staten Island” Gugliaro/62 
Anthony “Tony Black” Induisi/66
Charles Lombardo/81
John Maggio/50
Vincent "Downtown Vinny" Manzo/77
Craig “Little Craig” Marino/46
Lawrence “Larry Monk” Micciolo/75
Charles "Charlie Fish" Miceli/57
Vincenzo Miceli/85
Victor Orena Jr/53 
John Orena/63
Robert Pate/69
Thomas Petrizzo/79
Francesco “Frankie P/Cap" Politi/73 (UI)
Vincent "Vinny Unions/Buffalo/Three Fingers" Ricciardo/72
Nicky Rizzo/90
John Rossatti/74
Frank “Frankie the Bug” Sciortino/83
James "Jimmy O'Toole" Spitaleri
John S-------/71
Anthony Stropoli/55
Frank "Frankie BF" Sturiano
Robert Tarantola/52
Frank “Frankie Collision” Tormenia/70


Possible Members:
Thomas Capelli
Alphonse Cirillo/86
Joe Petillo
Joey Rago
Angelo “Little Angelo” Spata/42
“Lee Vaserta” (possibly one of the members up top)
Phil LNU

wow that means they are less then 80
do they have any young guys to replace the old ?
whoever going to be the boss
needs to do some massive rebuilding

They never had more than 100-110 made men at their peak.

Russo is 84 y old he risk to die every day

While this is true, at their peak they were making money hand over fist with the gasoline scam among other businesses and rackets they had I’m sure.

The trouble was that after the third colombo war more orena supporters becomed independent and stop pay money to the family,russo tried to take them back to the family plus the colombos are less respected because a Gambino stabbed a colombo wiseguy an for dont retaliate the colombo asked 100K - 150K that anyway wasnt paid.
The other side is that the colombo was always confinated in Brooklyn.
Anyway better the colombos that philly or the decavalcante.

someone keeps floating a name hes a guy in his 50tys i cant think of it. he did abunch of times from the colombo war in 90tys. d'onfrio im thinking could just be a interent rumor but the guy exists and was busted in the 90tys

there is anything to rebuild in the family ? or just surviving the modern age ?
in terms of recruiting i guess people will always prefer to join the small and low-key family's
the westside will only take the best guys so it's not easy to join them at all
the gambino's are too

I bet there is maybe 60 guys active making $ with buttons. There is a reason the Colombos have constantly been talked about being absorbed by other borgatas.

Killing Cutulo could have been the beginning of the end. Big mistake killing someone who would have been good enough to be in the Genovese admin.

IMO if the capos really want to rebuilt the ranks and prestige of the borgata must cut any ties with the Persico clan and choose a young and smart boss that are respected by the other families like gambinos did kicking away the Gottis and give the leadership to the sicilians.

I think when they gets out he will be official boss

yeah they need to make some big changes right now to rebuild themselves
and like you have said furio
they have to do what the gambino's have done
and it's to make a huge changes and have a brand new administration
and keep forward and forgot the past
time is changing the mob is not how it's was
so they need to adjust themselves to the new changes and environment.

I mean Theodore persico Jr will be boss

Persico’s the last 15 or more years they have been bringing relatives over not just or for sole purpose of the OC but if that happens why not.

They will never go the route of Gambinos ect . as long as there is still blood available, that doesn’t mean that it will not be a non blood street boss but most likely.

The way of the world is different and if anything that life is going and has been slowly collapsing so even more in this day and age it will be blood in the families with the pool of good men dwindling .

Not just dwindling but collapsing with no old guys to show the way ... look at Philly right after Nick it’s earning but not big business, not just LE pushing but lack of educated members to show the younger guys . If not shown it’s so hard to learn on your own because you will make mistakes and take pinches and that makes rats ! it’s a bad circle of events.

But I highly doubt you will see Perico’s on the outs for some time ..... believe it or not many of those guys coming up are educated on both sides of the tract.


Time will tell.

Is Theodore Persico Jr set to become the new boss of the Colombo Family?

https://aboutthemafia.com/is-theodore-persico-jr-set-to-become-the-new-boss-of-the-colombo-family

Pmac, you are thinking of Robert D'Onofrio, he is one of the top five members in the family along with Joseph Amato and Billy Russo. I dont have much info on him, but he was chosen to be either acting boss or acting underboss. Teddy Persico will become boss given that Al Persico has two life sentences. What little has been revealed, it looks like Thomas Farese has invited Teddy Persico to stay in Florida when his parole is up, like how Skinny Joey in Philadelphia is doing. Teddy Persico also did a little flexing in California before he was locked up so he might head out there when his parole is up if his enterprise makes a lot of profit in California.

Maybe he’ll run into Kenji Gallo if he goes out west!

I can't see why the capos would vote for another Persico especially one (Allie Boy) that is in jail for life or Teddy Jr. that would be nothing but a heat score.

Holy shit, they need young guys. Most of the captains/Administration 65+ y.o

I agree, I think Carmine Persico ruined his family by having his sons/bloodline as future bosses & ignoring guys (Wild Bill Cutolo & Little Vic Orena) that maybe would do better for the family than his sons, or nephews.

Vic Orena was Persico cousin I thought??

You know what I mean.

It down to five possibilities three are blood two are not.

How do guys even get recruited these days

isn't the Colombo and philly families pick the worst / rats?

Yeah Colombo Crime Family has had the largest number of high ranking turncoats of all the NYC Families. And things isn’t like how it was maybe 60-70 years ago where there was a much larger recruitment pool in the Italian American Neighborhoods. Now, those sources have all dried up, the Italians that lived in NYC slowly moved down to Staten Island or Long Island during the 70s & 80s. Basically they can find guys in those two areas but they won’t be near as good as were the guys from back in the day, earning capabilities speaking. And Italians have Americanized now, 4th & 5th generation Italians are the younger guys now 15-25 y.o and they don’t seem too keen on joining or holding omertà till death if they do make it. On the other hand, The Gambinos are bringing in Sicilians by the boat loads 😄.