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OBITUARY

Mar 9, 2019 6:30 AM CST

Colombo Crime Family Boss Dead at 85

Carmine 'The Snake' Persico died in North Carolina at age 85 while serving 139-year sentence

(Newser) - He was the last surviving member of New York City's Commission, the governing body of the US Mafia. Now, Carmine "The Snake" Persico has joined his former crime buddies in eternal rest. Persico attorney Benson Weintraub says the 85-year-old head of the Colombo crime family died Thursday in...

Carmine 'The Snake' Persico, Record-Setting Mob Boss, Dies

Government Shutdown
May Have Killed a Mob Boss

Mar 8, 2019 3:53 PM CST

Government Shutdown May Have Killed a Mob Boss

Lawyers says treatment of Colombo family's Carmine 'The Snake' Persico was interrupted

(Newser) - "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 serving a 139-year prison sentence, died in hospice care, the New York Post reports. He was...

Mob Families Called Summit
—Over Medical Bills

Jan 22, 2011 1:02 PM CST

Mob Families Called Summit —Over Medical Bills

They debated who would cover stabbing victim's costs

(Newser) - Not even mobsters can avoid haggling over medical bills. In digging through the papers related to this week's massive mafia bust , the New York Post finds this gem: A low-ranking member of the Gambinos committed a breach of mob ethics by stabbing a rival in the Colombos without clearing it...

More Than 120 Arrested in
Biggest NY Mob Bust Ever

UPDATED

Jan 20, 2011 11:34 AM CST

More Than 120 Arrested in Biggest NY Mob Bust Ever

FBI takes in members of Colombo, Gambino, 5 other families

(Newser) - It's not a good day to be a mobster: The FBI has arrested nearly 130 in what it's calling the biggest mob bust in New York history. The raids, which began yesterday and continued into the early morning, reeled in "basically the whole administration of the Colombo family,"...