Carmine Persico had nothing to lose. In 1986, the notorious Colombo crime-family boss had just been convicted on racketeering charges and, with a second federal trial looming, was facing spending ...

Carmine (The Snake) Persico, the longtime boss of the Colombo crime family, died at age 85, the Daily News has learned. Persico was convicted of racketeering and murder in the famous mid-‘80s ...

Carmine J. Persico, who emerged from gangland Brooklyn to become the unpredictable boss of one of the nation’s most powerful Mafia organizations in an era when the mob in New York was at the ...

CARMINE THE SNAKE: CARMINE PERSICO AND HIS MURDEROUS MAFIA FAMILY By Frank DiMatteo and Michael Benson Kensington Books, $26, 290 pages Carmine “the Snake” Persico has been identified by the ...

Anthony DiPietro was just a 3-year-old kid when Colombo crime family boss Carmine (Snake) Persico, representing himself in the 1986 Mafia “Commission” trial, denounced the prosecution’s case ...

Carmine “The Snake” Persico, the locked-up longtime boss of the Colombo crime family, has died, according to his lawyer — who is blaming the partial government shutdown for “accelerating ...

Carmine Persico, longtime boss of the ruthlessly violent Colombo crime family gasped his last breath Thursday at a North Carolina hospital in the midst of 139-year prison sentence in federal prison.

In the annals of organized crime, Carmine Persico’s celebrity was somewhere in the middle rank. He wasn’t a household name like Al Capone or John Gotti, and he wasn’t quite as important or ...

Along the way, Carmine “The Snake” Persico is suspected of killing 60 people and ordering hits on hundreds more, while surviving attempts on his own life – in one legendary incident by ...

The longtime boss of the infamous Colombo crime family, Carmine 'The Snake' Persico, has died at the age of 85. Attorney Benson Weintraub says Persico died on Thursday at the Duke University ...

Carmine Persico, 85, died in jail during a 139-year sentence this week for executing up to 40 people in a bloody war between New York's five crime 'families' The mobster died during a 139-year ...

Carmine Persico, Colombo Crime Family Boss, Is Dead at 85 S Selwyn Raab Follow His lawyer, Benson Weintraub, confirmed the death, at Duke University Medical Center, but said he did not know the cause.