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 ...

The Snake was a rat. Colombo crime family boss Carmine “The Snake” Persico was a “Top Echelon Informant” for the feds, shocking new court papers reveal, adding a posthumous twist to the ...

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) 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 “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.

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.