The Persico clan has maintained control over the Colombo crime family for more than three decades – but its iron grip may be at risk. Crime boss Carmine (The Snake) Persico and his son, Alphonse ...

REPUTED Colombo boss Alphonse (Allie Boy) Persico had no problem with “mean and nasty and scary” gangster William (Wild Bill) Cutolo – and didn’t whack him, Persico’s lawyer said yesterday. “Alphonse ...

WILL TO WIN: Jacquian Williams is out to stay on the field with the Giants defense as much as possible this season. Paul J. Bereswill Reputed acting Colombo crime boss Alphonse “Allie Boy” Persico ...

A Colombo family mobster who vanished in 1999 told his wife that he was meeting with family kingpin Alphonse Persico on the day he disappeared, she testified yesterday in a Long Island federal court.

When it comes to Carmine and Alphonse Persico – the official and the acting bosses of the Colombo family, respectively – the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. Three decades ago, Alphonse dropped ...

Chris Paciello, deposed dark prince of South Beach nightclubs, shocked many people when he pleaded guilty this past October to racketeering, murder, and robbery charges. Immediately the rumors began ...

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 ...

The baggy-eyed man wearing a rumpled suit and gold-rimmed glasses walked briskly to the courtroom lectern, opened a folder and said to the witness, ”When did you meet me?” The witness squirmed in his ...

As John “Junior” Gotti enters the home stretch of his third racketeering trial in Manhattan, another college-educated mob prince who reputedly took over his father’s crime family is about to begin his ...

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 the mob bosses Albert Anastasia and Joey ...