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Longtime Colombo soldier Dino Calabro (left) said fellow soldier Ralph Scopo Jr. (right) dreamed up the 'coffee boy' union con job.

Dino Calabro, a longtime soldier in the Colombo organized crime family, and newly converted mob informant,  described how the Colombo mob pulled in $250 a week from every job site the union is working through its control of so-called “coffee boys.” nothing is too small to steal. Not even a cup of coffee according to the .. Writes Greg  B. Smith , Daily News.

Since the 1980s, the mob has found a way to siphon off hundreds of thousands of dollars from all the cups of coffee bought at New York City‘s construction sites. To read the rest Click here: Colombo crime family brewed coffee con at New York City construction sites