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 peak of ...

DURHAM, N.C. — Carmine "The Snake" Persico, the unpredictable boss of one of the nation's most powerful Mafia families, died Thursday in a North Carolina prison, The New York Times reported. He was 85 ...

The Godfather turned 50 this month. And two recent deaths have provoked debate about how the American Mafia has changed since the release of Mario Puzo’s wildly popular crime novel. The first death, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The longtime boss of the infamous Colombo crime family, Carmine “the Snake” Persico, has died at the age of 85. Persico died on Thursday at the Duke University Medical Center, ...

A few days before Christmas, one of New York’s legendary tough guys, the jailed-for-life mob boss of the Colombo crime family, sat down in his cell and composed a very un-tough-guy letter to a federal ...

NEW YORK — The bosses of New York’s five Cosa Nostra families discussed killing then-federal prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani in 1986 an informant told the FBI, according to testimony Wednesday in Brooklyn ...

The one-time head of New York’s notorious Colombo family won’t rejoin the criminal underworld if he’s released as he doesn’t even remember who he is — sometimes mistaking himself for the president of ...

CONVICTED. Carmine Persico, 52, reputed boss of New York City’s Colombo crime organization; on charges of racketeering, extortion and bribery; after an eight-month trial; in New York City. Persico ...

Carmine J. Persico, the unpredictable leader of the New York-based Colombo crime family who the authorities believe had a strong hand in the assassinations of mob bosses Albert Anastasia and Joey ...