Mob boss Carmine `The Snake` Persico dies while serving 139-year prison sentence
(LA Times NBA)

The longtime boss of the infamous Colombo crime family, Carmine `The Snake` Persico, has died at age 85 while serving a 139-year prison sentence. Persico died Thursday at the Duke University Medical Center, said his attorney, Benson Weintraub. He had been serving what was effectively a life sentence...