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One-time mobster lied about role in murders

A one-time mob associate pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court Monday to lying about his role in a two-decade-old double-murder in Nassau County at the time of a violent internal Colombo family war.

Anthony Colandra, 43, of Manhattan, faces a five-year prison term for lying to the FBI by claiming that he knew nothing about the shooting of John Minerva, who had allied with a dissident Colombo...

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