Summer of 2016, Joey Amato had himself a problem. Not a legal one as many wiseguys fret over, but a problem nevertheless. His was a physical one, concerning his heart. No, he was not in need of a cardiologist, he was only experiencing a broken heart. Joey Amato was and…...
Colombo Family
News and Stories about the Colombo Crime Family
A shot in the back and a smack in the face
COLOMBO COWBOYS The rain was steady on the second day of November 1992, a Lincoln Town car came to a sudden halt on Caldwell Avenue, the Maspeth section of Queens. In the car were Colombo crime family members and associates on their way to the wake of a family member…....
A young Turk named, Joe Gallo
“Sollozo is known as the Turk, he’s supposed to be very good with a knife…” -Tom Hagen, The Godfather (1972) Like the fictional, Virgil Sollozo, who’s character displayed a brazen approach for dealing with opposition – the streets of New York had a true life young Turk by the name…...