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 ...

"Carmine Persico was born in August 1933 and killed his first human being in 1951, before his 18th birthday," prosecutors once said. That violent life story ended Thursday when Persico, who was ...

Anthony DiPietro was just a 3-year-old kid when Colombo crime family boss Carmine (Snake) Persico, representing himself in the 1986 Mafia “Commission” trial, denounced the prosecution’s case as ...

The son of a mob boss will be getting an extended prison stay after a Brooklyn federal judge went beyond the sentence length that even prosecutors were seeking. Federal guidelines said Michael Persico ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK (AP) — The longtime boss of the infamous Colombo crime family, Carmine "the Snake" Persico, has died at the age of 85.

Carmine J. Persico Jr., the legendary Mafia boss who clung to the role of head of the Colombo crime family while serving a life prison term, died Thursday afternoon. He was 85 and died at Duke ...

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. NEW YORK (WABC) -- Legendary mob boss Carmine ...

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 FBI and ...