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 ...

His attorneys noted a successful business he had started with his fiancee, and how employees of the business were in the courtroom supporting him.

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 ...

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 ...