Extensive FBI surveillance and intelligence reported the following as the membership list during this time. The membership averaged approximately 125+/- formal inducted members for the period.
Side Note: Of the 169 men listed below some would die during the year 1980 and throughout the decade. A few others were old, ill, and inactive. Some were newly inducted. But regardless, most members were young enough to be active and served the borgata at one point or another.
Additionally, with the repeated massive indictments that came down against the Family from 1984 forward, various members would be elevated and moved around to serve as capos or within the three-man triangle hierarchy while the “official” leadership was incapacitated.
By late 1990 into 1991, this network found itself heading toward an internal civil war (its third in forty years) that would rage from mid-1991 through 1993. It was a battle for supremacy between factions that the Colombo’s have never fully recovered from.
Loyalists of Carmine Persico vs. those of Victor Orena fought a bloody two-year gangland war that tore at the very fabric of the Family. It essentially destroyed them from within.
