Mafia Boss Carmine Persico, A 'Prisoner Of War' For 30 Years, Wants To Go Home
America's Mayor Rudy Giuliani has often championed the historic Mafia Commission case, which saw Colombo boss Carmine (Junior) Persico convicted and sentenced to 100 years for being part of a racketeering conspiracy that ordered the storied murder of Carmine (Lilo) Galante at Joe and Mary's Italian American Restaurant on July 29, 1979. This summer, Giuliani recalled his 30-year-old success in an eight-part cable TV special, The Making of the Mob: New York.
But 27 FBI informant reports from the 1970s and 80s that have come to light since then show that other mobsters led the family after Joe Colombo was shot down in 1971, and that Persico didn't take over and become a Commission member until 1980, according to court papers that seek to "set aside" Persico's sentence as an "illegal" consequence of "an unjust crusade against him" by then-U.S. Attorney Giuliani.
In a 71-page legal brief accompanied by 44 exhibits, an attorney for Persico charges that Giuliani and former FBI agent Lin DeVecchio were the key culprits is securing his conviction and a 100 year sentence even though he was "innocent of the pivotal allegation" in the case: That he was the Colombo family boss and a Mafia Commission member from 1972 to 1985.
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