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02504aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 022AAA68423911E9AF80DE6297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190309010018 008 180821s2018 nyuaf b 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2018289343 020 $a 0806538813 020 $a 9780806538815 040 $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 14 $a HV6446 $b .D56 2018 082 04 $a 364.1/060973 $2 23 100 1 $a Dimatteo, Frank, $d 1956- $e author. 245 10 $a Carmine the snake : $b Carmine Persico and his murderous mafia family / $c Frank DiMatteo, Michael Benson. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., $c [2018] 300 $a vii, 293 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-293). 520 $a In this blistering street-level account, "Mafia survivor" Frank DiMatteo teams up with true-crime master Michael Benson to take down one of the most notorious figures in the American La Cosa Nostra. This is the real inside story of Carmine "The Snake" Persico, from his crime-filled childhood on the streets of Brooklyn to the long-term jail sentences that didn't stop him from controlling his criminal empire, with the help of his brother-the equally kill-crazy Alphonse "Allie Boy" Persico. This is the story of his deadly teen years as leader of the fearsome Garfield Boys; his recruitment into the Profaci-later the Colombo-crime family; his bloody betrayal of the Gallo brothers; his role in the hair-raising ambush and slaying of Albert Anastasia-the Lord High Executioner of Murder, Inc.-as he sat in a barbershop chair getting a shave; the terror he struck into the hearts of the New York Mafia's other families, and even his own crews; and the many courtroom trials where Persico walked after witnesses came down with sudden cases of "amnesia." Today, Persico schmoozes with Ponzi king Bernard Madoff behind bars. There, at age eighty-four, his legend-packed as it is with coldblooded brutality-continues to inspire goodfellas everywhere. 600 10 $a Persico, Carmine. 650 0 $a Mafia $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Organized crime $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft. 700 1 $a Benson, Michael, $e author. 941 $a 2 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012025332.0 952 $l LHPD057 $d 20201221123240.0 $m B PERSICO 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=022AAA68423911E9AF80DE6297128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search