Another good man destroyed by the GOP

HiloBoy · Jan 3, 2005

Can anyone tell me why Gulianni was able to get a phony conviction to stand and destroy the life of Carmine Persico? Here is a man that was convicted on rico charges before the government was allowed to convict on rico charges.

All Persico ever did was run a gambling and street juice operation before being the boss in name only for the Columbos. Gulianni used this conviction to the Mayors office by convicting the man with witness testimony that were total lies under oath.

Even then Attorney General John Ashcroft said this was a travesty of justice but dropped the ball when he became aware of Persicos son Alphonse had financially supported Ashcrofts opponet in a Missouri election.

JinnRikki · Jan 3, 2005

With a serious FBI investigation of Keriks mafia affiliations starting it may provide some insight into Rudys affairs also.

bblight · Jan 3, 2005

Born in 1937, Carmine came from Brooklyn, where his father Carmine, Sr. scammed his way through life as a soldier in the Genovese family. Known as "Jr." on the streets to his friends and "Snake" to his enemies, he became the leader of a group of young thugs and terrorists called the Garfield Boys. He reputedly killed his first victim at the age of 17 and was supposedly skilled in street fighting and shakedown tactics. However, reporter Pete Hamill, who grew up at the same time and in the same neighborhood as Jr. remembers him differently. "Jr. wasn’t very good with his hand’s…But if 3 other guys were holding you, he was devastating."

Persico allegedly admitted to one friend that he had been one of the shooters on the Anastasia murder in 1957. He had a passionate hatred for cops and was involved in the beating of one and the shooting of another.

When a youngster, he allegedly killed a man. Before he could be convicted on the testimony of a state witness known only as "The Blue Angel," his older brother Alphonse confessed to the murder and went to prison for 18 years. As long as "Ally Boy" and the Snake were out of prison they were inseparable, the Mutt and Jeff of the Colombo family. Among his many claims to fame, or infamy, Carmine once appeared on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, one of the very few mafiosi ever to do so.

Small in stature, scrawny and ugly in appearance, one hand was twisted from a bullet wound; he had also been shot in the face during the first Gallo Wars. The incident, that went down in mob lore had him and a partner in crime, Alphonse D’Ambrosia, sitting is a car as a group of Gallo hoods drove by shooting at them with a M-1 carbine. Ambrosia was shot in the chest and the Snake got one in the face, but spat the bullet out and then drove them both to hospital. It was Carmine, allegedly, who was busy garrotting Larry Gallo when the curious cop walked into the bar.

His tenure as boss of the Colombos was marked by his troubles with the law. Of his first thirteen years in the seat, he spent ten of them in prison.

HiloBoy · Jan 3, 2005

The right wing has taken us away from due process and we being led by a Fascist dictatorship. First the Jews then the Italian Americans now anyone that prays to a different god. If you are not a Wasp they want you to not exist.

HiloBoy · Jan 3, 2005

bb,

I am glad you can cut and paste but you are only reading what your beloved state Da wants you to believe. Why do they leave out the good this man has done?

lander · Jan 3, 2005

>> he became the leader of a group of young thugs and terrorists called the Garfield Boys

Let's hope the neighborhood went to alert status pink and had stockpiles of duct tape.

Newsflash Americult -- just because dum dum says something stoopid that does NOT instantly make that phrase "hip." For instance -- "misunderestimated" is a "word" for idiots. "Thugs and terrorists" are labels for fear-mongering assclowns. And "it's hard work" doesn't mean squat when you're the vacation-record setter.

Wake up America and stop acting like "y'all" are from Mississippi (ironic that they give the dumbest state so many letters).