Mob boss Carmine 'The Snake' Persico dies while serving 139-year prison sentence

[Zorro]

Source: LA Times

The longtime boss of the infamous Colombo crime family, Carmine "The Snake" Persico, has died at age 85 while serving a 139-year prison sentence.

Persico died Thursday at the Duke University Medical Center, said his attorney, Benson Weintraub. He had been serving what was effectively a life sentence at a federal prison in Butner, N.C.

Persico was among eight defendants convicted in a 1986 prosecution called the "Commission Trial" that was overseen by then-U.S. Atty. Rudolph W. Giuliani. At the time, it was the biggest legal assault on the heads of the Mafia's five families. Persico was convicted of racketeering and murder.

The son of a law firm stenographer and a stay-at-home mother, Persico was a high school dropout who was part of a local street gang.


Read more: https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-carmine-persico-20190311-story.html

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I wonder what Trump's mob nickname is.

[KG]

1. 'mushroom'

[Zorro]

3. I was thinking Donald "Da Turd" Trump fits

[paleotn]

2. .....

Donnie wee dong.

[Flaleftist]

4. Donny Two Scoops

[blugbox]

12. Hahaha this one is the winner for me!

It fits perfect and has such a ridiculous mobster feel that it suits a ridiculous mobster wannabe like dump.

[ffr]

5. Can you imagine if those guys had been sentenced today, the "otherwise blameless lives"

[marble falls]

6. And he was so close parole, too.

[GP6971]

7. The "Worm". n/t

[SkatmanRoth]

8. Persico's jail cell is now vacant and waiting for Trump to come fill it

[Dem2theMax]

10. And my 'thoughts and prayers' are that he receives the same sentence.

[monmouth4]

9. "Donnie Nosocks"...n/t

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. "Skinny". He's so tall, he's so thin, he's so fit.

Or, "Methusela". He's so healthy, he'll live to be 800.