In the sweep of 2011 two years ago, the Feds indicted the entire Colombo administration. I'm not positive, but with the sentencing of Dennis DeLucia I think it's wrapped up now. What's everyone's opinion on how the government fared against them?

They did a lot of damage but they're not even close to being wiped out.

pretty much. even with them being considered the smallest and weakest of the 5 families, its gonna take decades and decades more of relentless law enforcement pressure before we can even begin talking about them disappearing. they simply have too many members, and too many guys willing to take the place of guys for them to even be considered close to being finished.

They'll be around awhile. It's not like they're the Chicago family .

Ralph deleo has lot of contacts in mass being from somerville, small little city right outside of boston, do you guys think he has someone who is from the city (boston) thats is directly connected or even assocaited with the colombos to keep the colombos of having whatever rackets they have here, mostly drugs, so they can keep operating and generating the revenue the was.... i know that during the old colombos wars in the 60's old man profaci asked ray sr for men and and old man ray sent jr russo nicky bianco pop werner and bunch of other guys to help

The Chicago guys on here have been pretty quiet lately.

I just had a 1 week vacation so I'm laying low!

Already being the smallest, arguably the weakest, and most geographically confined NY family; the recent hits they took had to inflict major, lasting damage. Having to bring Donnie Shacks out of at least semi-retirement suggests how many of their top guys are in prison or otherwise unavailable. With Local 6A possibly be gone (only time will tell), their remaining labor influence is in question.

That said, we also have to remember the feds were predicting their imminent demise 20 years ago during the last Colombo war. Since the, the feds have been much more careful about making those rosy predictions. These NY families are different from all the rest. Taking them out is a very slow process. And it has more to do with keeping them in check with repeated indictments while attrition takes it's toll.