The longtime boss of the infamous Colombo crime family, Carmine 'the Snake' Persico, has died in prison at the age of 85.
Carmine Persico, boss of the Colombo Crime Family, poses for a portrait on Sept. 15, 1986 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City during the Commission trial. Persico is also known as "Junior" and "The Snake."Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.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 the Duke University Medical Center. He had been serving what was effectively a life sentence at a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina. Prosecutors said Persico took over the murderous New York-based crime organization in the early 1970s when it was at the height of its powers.
He was sentenced to more than a century in prison during the 1986"Commission Trial" targeting the heads of New York's mafia families.
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