Gang Land’s Jerry Capeci writes,
Anthony Colombo, who spent two stretches behind bars for mob-related criminal activity after following his late Mafia boss father into the Colombo crime family, died peacefully in his sleep last week from diabetes related ailments that plagued him for decades. He passed away in San Diego, where he has been living for the past year. He was 71.
Mr. Capeci writes, His death came a year after he likened the fatal shooting of his dad in 1971 to the assassination of President Kennedy in a book, Colombo, The Unsolved Murder. There is no doubt “who pulled the trigger,” Colombo wrote, but no one ever learned “who pulled the strings behind the trigger man” in what was a “faulty investigation” by the FBI and NYPD from beginning to end.
Mr. Capeci writes, Coauthored by Donald Capria, the book is an unapologetic story about Anthony’s love and devotion to his father. But it also concedes that Joe Colombo was a powerful mob boss and close associate of Carlo Gambino. The book details talks that the duo had, including Gambino’s initial support of Joe Colombo’s role as a civil rights icon, and Don Carlo’s later change of heart before the June 28, 1971 rally at which the Mafia boss was gunned down and mortally wounded. Gang Land News
