Photographs and excerpts from a late 1970s FBI report compiled on Chicago Member John 'The Bug' Varelli (1925-1985).
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| Summer 1967 (L to R): Max Heckmeyer, John Varelli |
Joseph Gorgone (Colombo)
c. 1960 Press Joseph 'Joe Black' Gorgone was a Colombo Soldier active in Lower Manhattan and in Brooklyn's Gravesend neighborhoo...
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1970 Carmine 'Turi' Franzese was a Soldier in the Colombo Family. A loanshark and close associate of Bonanno leader Joseph Massino, ... -
No photo available. Vito Borelli was a Gambino Associate murdered in or around the Fall of 1980 by the Gambino and Bonanno Families. L to R... -
In early 1976 the New York Families agreed to open the books and replenish their ranks. By that time the Colombo Family was down to approxim...