Any idea who these 2 Colombo guys are with Ronnie G?
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/new-york-daily-news/20180214/281822874265166

If you don't know who they are, how do you know they're Colombos? And the photo caption says that they're fellow Bonannos. Again, think things through before you go typing.

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What are you talking about ?
https://qns.com/2018/08/howard-beac...deral-pen-sell-sopranos-style-mcmansion/

Okay, in that one it says that they're Colombos, but in the first one it says that they're Bonannos.

Definitely Colombo guys. Its in many other articles as well.

The guy on the far right is the Irish guy, Pudgie. They actually made him lol

Pudgy is Irish? With a name like Festa? Quit spreading lies, troll.

It ain't lies little man. His mother is Irish and his father is half Irish.

Okay, so 75% Irish. Damn La Cosa Nostra is desperate and watered-down. You can even see that he has strong Irish features, pale skin, light hair and light eyes. The American Mafia is beginning to look more Aryan than Mediterranean. I don't care what people say or what excuses they make, the Italian-American Mafia has greatly lowered their standards and are just trash these days.

It's all about money right now. Pudgie brings in the dough, but he doesn't exactly have the reputation of a tough guy. A guy like that is easy to break.

Yeah, but he could still bring in the dough as an associate. Jimmy Burke brought in lots of dough, but he was never made. Like I said, no excuses. First, you had to be 100% Italian, then half Italian, now you only have to be 25% Italian. They will eventually be making people with zero Italian descent, you wait and see.

He was made around 2013 and 2015 and Gene Borello accused him to call the feds for send him again in prison.

Turncoat Gangster's 'Bad Anger Problem' May Put Him Back Behind Bars

Gene Borrello, the turncoat gangster who has boasted about his exploits for the Bonanno family on a podcast about the mob for a year while insisting he's turned a new leaf, has allegedly made tape-recorded threats against the husband of an old girlfriend, Gang Land has learned. Sources say Borrello is likely to be arrested and cited soon for violating his conditions of supervised release.

The sources say that the FBI, along with the Probation Department, are investigating allegations that Borrello threatened his former girlfriend and her husband over the woman's refusal to let Borrello use her picture in a book that he is writing about his exploits as a gangster and a cooperating witness.

Several sources say the allegations "have merit" and are under investigation. One source said Borrello was heard making a "clear threat" against the husband. A second source stated that Borrello was heard telling the woman's husband that he is "going to blow his fucking head off" if he doesn't get his way.

In an interview with Gang Land, Borrello, 36, insists that it is all a misunderstanding, and that he never threatened anyone.

By his own account, the turncoat gangster was a one-man crime wave, accumulating nine arrests during his life of crime. He flipped in 2016 and helped the feds put Bonanno capo Ronald (Ronnie G) Giallanzo and 20 cohorts, including three mobsters in his crew behind bars. He was rewarded with a five year prison term that returned him to Howard Beach in 2019. For the past year, he has been cohost with John Alite of a podcast called the Johnny and Gene Show.

The woman who is the focal point of the dispute confirmed that she and Borrello argued about his intention to use her picture in a book and that he did threaten her husband in a conversation with her, and that she told her hubby about it. "But this is a petty situation," she told Gang Land, stressing that she does not feel threatened and is not worried that Borrello has any intention to harm her hubby or their child.

"It was over a picture," she said. "Gene pressed me, 'Can I use the picture of you?' I said, 'Absolutely not. I don't want to be in your book or have anything to do with it.' And he got mad and we had words back and forth and then he made a threat on my husband. He just lost it. He made a threat to me, saying he would do something to my husband because I'm talking crazy to him."

"My husband is not from Howard Beach," she explained. "He's a regular guy, so if there is an argument like that, and someone like Gene says something like that to me, I tell my husband."

"I think my husband wants to see him in jail," she continued. "Gene's my ex-boyfriend and he obviously doesn't like him. He may have threatened him, but I don't feel threatened, and I don't think my husband feels threatened. I think he just wants to see him go back to jail."

For his part, Borrello blames a Howard Beach-based member of Giallanzo's crew, Nicholas (Pudgie) Festa, for pushing the woman's hubby to sic the FBI on him. He told Gang Land that the mobster's angst has nothing to do with Borrello causing Festa to be sentenced to prison for the first time in his life, but for "making fun of him on the internet. I call him a clown a lot."

"The husband is friends with people around Pudgie and he basically told him to call the cops on me to get me off the street because I hurt his feelings on the internet," said Borrello. "He's a made guy and I make him look stupid on the internet. I say he never did anything in his life, I call him a clown. So he put the husband up to it."

Borrello, who has stated on the podcast that he has "a real bad anger problem" that he's been working hard to control, added that when he was contacted by FBI agents recently about "stuff that happened a month ago," he explained the situation to them and was not arrested.

The working title of Borello's book, according to author Lou Romano, is "The Life and Times of Gene Borrello."

None of the federal agencies involved in Borrello's life these days, the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's Office, the FBI, or the Probation Department would discuss the issue.

Alite, the driving force of the Johnny And Gene Show said he didn't "know anything about it," but that he does "know that sometimes people say things they don't mean but can't take back and I hope that this did not happen here."

According to Borello, no one was a gangste except him. Borello has serious mental issues and no one would have ever straightened him out.
Festa’s father was all Italian. Festa made a lot of money and took his time like a man and didnt have mental issues. Festa is much more reliable and stable.

Festa's father was full Italian? Then how come Ralphie Pinocchio is saying that his father is half Irish?

I've also heard Festa was mostly Irish. He looks more Irish than Liam Neeson lol

Because there arent full blooded italians anymore! Apart the italian born wiseguys the american mobsters are mixed blood with only the father that give them the italian surname.

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I get that, all I'm saying is that LCN is becoming more and more diluted. First 100% Italian, then 50% Italian, now you only have to be 25%. Eventually, you won't have to be Italian at all. Regardless of the facts or why they're doing it, it's becoming more watered-down and fake.

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come on furio you know that’s not true.

Apparently the secret meeting was to coerce him to plead guilty, not cooperate. You're trying to make him look like a rat, you should be sued for slander, except there's no point in suing a bum.

No I am not making him look like anything but I do know you are not supposed to have secret meetings with the government no matter what you are trying to do. Like Michael spats was asked to sit with the government not in open court to discuss with him and his lawyer about knowing what the government did to him on his case. Yet Mike told them either it happens in open court or he will do the 24 years. Law is law and streets are the streets let’s not pick and choose what is right and what is wrong. I only asked if this was true.

I remember asking the same question Lenox asked when that surveillance image was published and no one knew the answer back then too.

It’s no big deal but I think it’s interesting that, even with the amount of intel out there nowadays, we still can’t figure it out.

Hello since when you ask something on here that a person did do and you are the one get accused of something that was not said it must be time for certain people on here to not post anymore because it’s wrong to ask a question and I guess something’s are good for some people but not for others. Everyone have a beautiful thanksgiving and remember being honest with yourself matters. God Bless and take care.

No,its true. Isnt like the old times,now for get made is enought to have an italian surnames and be a moneymaker.

So that means I’m the last full-blooded Italian-American in the country? Oh my! WOW!
I should get official government recognition and protection…with a pension and all…

Jokes aside,

Implying that “there aren’t full-blooded Italians anymore” is just false.
Demographically-speaking. Especially in the North East.

Implying that “all” wiseguys are mixed-blood is also false.
Some were, and some certainly are, but it’s not the absolute normality.

Always avoid absolutes.

What I would say is that before some wiseguys wasnt made because wasn't full blooded like Salemme in Boston because is half irish. In the 1980s Scarpa jr was made despite half italian,so today happens that wiseguys made sons with non italian women. For sure exist the full blooded italians OUTSITE the mob families but that today is enought an italian surname and to be a moneymaker.

I was talking to someone from Bulgaria and we were talking about how ethnic groups assimilate too much into American culture. He was talking about how in his country, even 3rd generation Italians are still speaking Italian and are still very much Italian-minded. Over here they're completely Americanized, apparently and unfortunately this country tends to have that effect on people.

Do we know who was the first not-fully Italian made guy to be publicly identified?

No lol. They started allowing it in the 70s, but I'm sure some guys slipped through before that time. A lot of half breeds grew up in Italian neighborhoods. They say the Bonannos were purists until fat rat came.