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 ...

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

While his father’s efforts were no less effective than lawyers who represented his co-defendants – all were convicted and seven, including Persico, received 100-year prison terms – many mob colleagues ...