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 tale of an ...

NEW YORK -- Legendary mob boss Carmine "The Snake" Persico, the last surviving member of New York City's Commission, has died after a long stint in federal prison. He was 85. The death was confirmed ...

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 the mob bosses Albert Anastasia and Joey ...

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 ...

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 ...

A mob war of words erupted Friday over court documents identifying infamous Colombo family boss Carmine “The Snake” Persico as a federal “top echelon informant.” Lawyers for Persico blasted the charge ...

In 2013, I interviewed former Philadelphia Cosa Nostra underboss and cooperating government witness Philip “Crazy Phil” Leonetti. He explained mobsters’ rationale for killing one another during mob ...

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 ...