The Colombo crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates and controls organized crime in America, with an iron fist, within the nationwide, extremely powerful, organized crime empire, known as the Mafia, (The American Mafia), (The Italian-American Mafia), (The Mob), (The Italian Mafia), (The Italian Mob), (The American Mob), (The Italian-American Mob), (American Cosa Nostra) (Cosa Nostra), (or La Cosa Nostra).