NEW YORK -- 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. He was 85. The death was confirmed ...

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 peak of ...

DURHAM, N.C. — Carmine "The Snake" Persico, the unpredictable boss of one of the nation's most powerful Mafia families, died Thursday in a North Carolina prison, The New York Times reported. He was 85 ...

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 Medical Center, ...

The Godfather turned 50 this month. And two recent deaths have provoked debate about how the American Mafia has changed since the release of Mario Puzo’s wildly popular crime novel. The first death, ...

A few days before Christmas, one of New York’s legendary tough guys, the jailed-for-life mob boss of the Colombo crime family, sat down in his cell and composed a very un-tough-guy letter to a federal ...

Carmine J. Persico, the unpredictable leader of the New York-based Colombo crime family who the authorities believe had a strong hand in the assassinations of mob bosses Albert Anastasia and Joey ...