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 ...

Longtime mob boss Carmine “The Snake” Persico died at 85 on Thursday, his attorney Benson Weintraub confirmed Friday. Weintraub told CNN that Persico died at Duke University Medical Center ...

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 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.