Gang Land’s Jerry Capeci writes
A Manhattan federal judge has shot down a bold effort by aging Colombo crime family boss Carmine (Junior) Persico and his attorneys to set aside the 100-year sentence Persico received for his racketeering conviction in the historic Mafia Commission case at the 1986 trial.
Mr. Capeci writes, In a 24-page decision, Judge Kevin Duffy – who took his seat on the federal bench in 1972, the same year the feds say Persico got a seat on the Commission as Colombo crime family boss – wrote that newly obtained FBI documents Persico’s lawyers submitted failed to make the case that the 82-year-old wiseguy deserved to be resentenced.
Mr. Capeci writes, Persico maintains that the FBI records show that others were serving as Colombo boss when Carmine (Lilo) Galante was gunned down in July of 1979. Since he wasn’t the boss at the time, he couldn’t have been a member of the Mafia Commission, Persico contends that he couldn’t have had anything to do with the storied rubout that left Galante sprawled on the back terrace of an Italian restaurant in Bushwick, a cigar still clutched in his teeth. Gang Land News
