So he hired the toughest guy he knew to represent him in court: Carmine Persico. What the pugnacious high-school dropout known as “The Snake” lacked in legal training, he made up for in street ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The longtime boss of the infamous Colombo crime family, Carmine “The Snake” Persico, has died at age 85 while serving a 139-year prison sentence. Persico died Thursday at the Duke University ...

To get one, go to the subscriptions page. NEW YORK — The longtime boss of the infamous Colombo crime family, Carmine “The Snake” Persico, has died at 85. Persico died Thursday at the Duke ...

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 ...

The son of jailed mob boss Carmine (The Snake) Persico was indicted Thursday for ordering the 12th and final killing in the bloody Colombo family mob wars. The younger Persico has no prior ...

In the annals of organized crime, Carmine Persico’s celebrity was somewhere ... But he had a good nickname — the Snake — which he reportedly disliked and fought his way to the top of one ...

NEW YORK — The longtime boss of the infamous Colombo crime family, Carmine "the Snake" Persico, has died in prison at the age of 85. Attorney Benson Weintraub says Persico died on Thursday at ...