7 Failed Hits on the Informant Who Couldn't Be Stopped

Between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty-seven, a high-level mob informant survived seven separate assassination attempts ordered by the Colombo crime family. Car bombs. Sniper ambushes. Poisoned espresso. Staged accidents. Construction site traps. Every method failed. Every killer was caught or deterred. The informant remained alive—and kept testifying. This case file examines the extraordinary survival story of a made member who became the FBI's most protected witness. We analyze the forensic evidence from each assassination attempt: the bomb components recovered from his Lincoln Continental, the ballistics analysis from a sniper rifle positioned across from his social club, the toxicology report on a poisoned drink meant to kill him in minutes. We explore the intelligence network that kept him alive—multiple FBI handlers, overlapping wiretaps, informants watching other informants, and a witness protection program pushed to its operational limits. We investigate the psychological warfare his survival created within the Colombo family: each failed hit eroded credibility, generated paranoia, and convinced other members that cooperation might be safer than silence. The cases he helped build resulted in fourteen convictions of made members and contributed to the structural collapse of the Colombo family's power in New York. But the cost was a life lived in perpetual fear—insomnia, paranoia, multiple relocations, and an identity erased from public record. His true name has never been confirmed. His current status—alive or deceased—remains classified. But his impact on organized crime prosecution is undeniable. He proved that informants could survive sustained assassination campaigns if protected properly, emboldening dozens of others to cooperate in the years that followed. This is the forensic analysis of the mob informant death couldn't catch. This is Mafia Crime Files. We examine the evidence. We analyze the survival. We reveal the cases that changed everything. For the full cinematic history of the Colombo Crime Family and the informant era that destroyed the mob, visit our main channel: Global Mafia Universe. 📂 Case File: Protected Witness [REDACTED] Assassination Attempts: 7 Status: SURVIVED ALL Current Location: CLASSIFIED