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Colombo's career as a gangster also could provide a plausible motive???revenge. One product of his years as a member of the assassination team of Joseph Profaci, head of a New York family, is a list of victims' relatives?young men orphaned by contract, brothers bound to avenge a family murder?who would like to see Colombo killed. His rise in the Mob hierarchy has also earned him the bitter enmity of former comrades, notably Joseph ("Crazy Joe") Gallo, onetime Profaci triggerman whom Colombo opposed during a bloody gang war in the early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Mafia: Back to the Bad Old Days? | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

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