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Carmine John Persico Jr. ( Italian: [ˈkarmine ˈpɛrsiko]; August 8, 1933 – March 7, 2019), also known as "Junior", "The Snake" and "Immortal", was an American mobster and the longtime boss of the Colombo crime family in New York City from 1973 until his death in 2019.
Mar 8, 2019 · 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...
Mar 9, 2019 · The former boss of a major New York crime gang has died, after serving 33 years of a 139-year prison sentence. Carmine Persico's lawyer said he died of complications arising from diabetes. He...
May 4, 2024 · Known as "The Snake," Carmine Persico became boss of the Colombo family in 1973 and ruled until he died in prison on March 7, 2019.
Mar 9, 2019 · 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,...
Mar 11, 2019 · 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.
Mar 8, 2019 · Legendary New York mob boss Carmine Persico, who as head of the Colombo crime family was convicted in the 1980s for a laundry list of crimes, has died. He was 85. His lawyer confirmed to NBC New...
Mar 8, 2019 · 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...
Mar 9, 2019 · The former boss of one of America's most powerful Mafia families has died while serving a 139-year jail sentence. Carmine "The Snake" Persico was head of the New York-based Colombo crime family.
Mar 8, 2019 · March 8, 2019. 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...
