William Cutolo, a 49-year-old Italian-American man known on the streets as “Wild Bill,” moved through New York City as a feared Colombo crime family powerbroker—an underboss with old war scars from the bloody internal feud that had split the family in the early 1990s. By the spring of 1999, prosecutors would later say, paranoia and revenge were mixing again inside the organization, and Cutolo’s rising influence made him a target.
On the afternoon of May 26, 1999, he set out for w
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