| LC control no. | no2019036218 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Persico, Carmine, 1933-2019 |
| Variant(s) | Persico, Carmine J., 1933-2019 Snake (Organized crime figure), 1933-2019 |
| Associated place | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1933-08-08 |
| Death date | 2019-03-07 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Butner (N.C.) |
| Field of activity | Mafia Organized crime |
| Found in | The Mob, ©1995: title frame (Carmine Persico) OCLC database, 10 March 2019 (access points: Persico, Carmine, 1933- , Persico, Carmine, Persico, Carmine (American mobster), Persico, Carmine John) New York times, 9 March 2019 (Carmine John Persico, born Aug. 8, 1933 and grew up in Park Slope and Red Hook [Brooklyn, N.Y.], died Thursday [7 March, 2019], Butner, N.C., in a federal prison, aged 85; emerged from gangland Brooklyn to become the unpredictable boss of one of the nation's most powerful Mafia organizations in an era when the mob in New York was at the peak of its prosperity; Persico's penchant for double-crossing his mob allies earned him an underworld nickname that he detested, The Snake) |
| Associated language | eng |
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