 Now, it's a Colombo family. To this day, there's a Colombo family, one of the five families that operates, one of the criminal Italian mafia families that operates out of New York City. Still a Colombo family, but that's just a little bit of the background on it. Joe Colombo had something else he did. Joe Colombo operated in ways that the mafia bosses previously had not, meaning he believed in going public.