Meet The Mobster
Gennaro “Jerry” Colombo was born in Sicily but grew up in Brooklyn. He had been in charge of illegal gambling operations and strip clubs in South Carolina. He also happened to be related to Joseph Colombo, the head of the New York Mafia family. If you watched The Irishman, you might remember his attempted assassination during the Italian Unity Day rally in 1971. Frank, Jerry’s brother, said that his brother was something like a combination of either “Al Capone and Rodney Dangerfield” or “Marlon Brando and Joe Pesci.” When the two Jerry’s first met at the Atlanta Airport on that fateful day in 1995, Jacobson handed his new friend a prize piece that entitled him to a new Dodge Viper.
Meet The Mobster
How The Mafia Does It
How amazing is it that Colombo showed up in an ad for the fast-food chain, waving a key to his Viper? This is how the mafia does it. But the truth is that he simply claimed the cash equivalent because he was not happy with the size of the sportscar. He was a big guy. Soon enough, he himself was giving his friends and family members tickets worth a million bucks. Of course, he made sure to take a cut for Jacobson and himself with every deal. Among the winners was his father-in-law. Robin, his wife, showed up in McMillions and talked about how she almost ate an M&M, which was a $1 million prize winner in a Mars chocolate bar contest operated by a different branch of Simon Marketing.
How The Mafia Does It
