Mob boss Carmine ‘The Snake’ Persico dies while serving 139-year prison sentence

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…