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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of New York’s most storied mob bosses met his end in prison Thursday — old and sick, and mired in a lawsuit over his medical treatment. Carmine (The Snake) Persico, the longtime boss of the ...