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Federal Government's Use of Trusteeships Under the RICO Statute. Vol.4. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. 1989. UNITED STATES of America v. Carmine PERSICO, Defendant No. 81 CR 42 United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York". The Laborerer.net. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011 . Retrieved October 15, 2011. Cohen, Stephanie (October 13, 2006). "Capo: Gotti Sr. Ignited a War". New York Post . Retrieved October 15, 2011. Fried, Joseph P. (August 12, 1981). "Persico Submits a Plea of Guilty to a Conspiracy". The New York Times . Retrieved October 16, 2011.

On November 11, 1971, Persico went on trial in state court on 37 counts of extortion, usury, coercion, and conspiracy, all stemming from a loan-sharking operation out of a Manhattan fur shop. [22] On December 8 a jury acquitted him of all charges; all 12 prosecution witnesses said they could not identify Persico. [23]

He was then jailed again in November, because he had breached the terms of his parole by approaching young women in the street. In 1979, he published a novel, The Spiderweb, and a further nonfiction study, Piercing the Reich: The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents During World War II. In March 2010, the Reuters News Agency reported that Carmine Persico had been socializing in prison with convicted swindler Bernard Madoff. [71] The New York Post further reported that Persico loved to play pinochle and bocce with other mobsters and regale them with stories from his past. [72]

Persico, 73, was accused of driving home drunk from a Villanova University basketball game, heading the wrong way on the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Nov. 6, 2018. The New York Times organized crime writer Selwyn Raab thought the Colombos were the most damaged by the trial, even though most of the top leaders of New York's Mafia families were sent to prison, with the Luccheses losing their entire hierarchy. In his book Five Families, Raab noted that Persico was only 53 years old at the time of the commission trial, making him by far the youngest boss in New York. However, Raab noted, Persico had already led the family for 14 years and was "at the peak of his abilities." He believed Persico would have potentially had a long reign ahead of him had he not been taken off the streets. By comparison, the other bosses were in their 70s, and would have likely passed the reins to men of Persico's generation even without the trial intervening. [50] Persico was sent to United States Penitentiary near Marion, Illinois, to serve his combined 139-year sentence.

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Cornell Smith, Kati (December 21, 2001). "Mob Big Cuts 13-year Jail Deal". New York Post . Retrieved October 15, 2011. a b Ramsland, Kathleen. "Working the System: Famous Cases of Self RepresentationThe Snake's Day in Court". TruTV Crime Library . Retrieved October 14, 2011. Sullivan, John (October 25, 2007). "Crime Bosses Considered Hit on Giuliani". The New York Times . Retrieved October 19, 2011. The greatest crime is Homicide. The accomplice is no better than the assassin. The theorist is worst.” (Pg. 212) But, you know what? I’m still going to claim that “Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial,” is the best book you can read about the International Military Tribunal, because I almost can’t conceive of a better book on the subject. Now in its 25th year of publication, Persico’s book is a cornucopia of interesting factoids and observations about World War II, and the post-WWII world. It renders technical legal concepts palatable to the layman, and it’s a near-perfect combination of exhaustive research and a suspenseful narrative that can read like a thriller.