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 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 ...

Carmine “The Snake” Persico, the locked-up longtime boss of the Colombo crime family, has died, according to his lawyer — who is blaming the partial government shutdown for “accelerating” the elderly ...

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 ...

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, ...

A mob war of words erupted Friday over court documents identifying infamous Colombo family boss Carmine “The Snake” Persico as a federal “top echelon informant.” Lawyers for Persico blasted the charge ...

In the annals of organized crime, Carmine Persico’s celebrity was somewhere in the middle rank. He wasn’t a household name like Al Capone or John Gotti, and he wasn’t quite as important or powerful as ...

Mafia kingpin Alphonse “Allie Boy” Persico wanted to “erase” a rival to his Colombo crime-family throne when he orchestrated the man’s 1999 murder, prosecutors charged yesterday. The feds leveled the ...

Rudy Giuliani on Thursday brushed off new reports that top mob bosses narrowly decided not to put a hit on him back in the 1980s, saying it wasn't the first time he'd learned of such a plot. "You get ...