Carmine 'The Snake' Persico, longtime mob boss of the infamous Colombo crime family, dies while serving a 139-year prison sentence.
Prosecutors said Persico took over the murderous New York-based Colombo organization in 1973, two years after Colombo was shot and paralyzed.
The commission trial indictment said Persico and his fellow mobsters ran"La Cosa Nostra" in a racketeering pattern that included murders, loan-sharking, labor payoffs and extensive extortion in the concrete industry. Through he wasn't charged in the murders, prosecutors said during the trial that Persico was involved in the legendary assassinations of two other mobsters — Albert Anastasia, the Murder Inc.
Persico acted as his own lawyer at the trial, using an aggressive style that often had prosecutors objecting, spectators laughing and the judge pounding his gavel for order, according to a 1986 Associated PressPersico questioned prosecution witness Fred DeChristopher, his cousin by marriage, who admitted turning him in for a $50,000 reward.
When DeChristopher had trouble hearing his mumbled questions, Persico exploded:"Why do you say, 'Pardon me?' You waiting to think of an answer or something?"At the sentencing, U.S. District Judge John F. Keenan suggested that Persico could have been a great man, if he'd chosen another calling. "Mr. Persico, you're a tragedy," he said."You are one of the most intelligent people I have ever seen."
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