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.

There is an interesting FBI file that covers an induction ceremony from 1956 involving Joe Ferriola and Anthony Eldorado. Their sponsors were Fiore Buccieri and Willie Daddano, respectively. Apparently, there was a big banquet with a lot of prominent Outfit guys present. Buccieri and Daddano introduced Ferriola and Eldorado as "one of us" and gave a toast as well as some additional words concerning their loyalty and responsibilities as members. There was no mention of finger pricking or the burning of holy cards.