CARMINE PERSICO BID TO GET OUT OF PRISON SHOULD BE HEARD

For starters, this is not a new story.  We have to go back to 2015, when this was first reported.  Carmine Persico, alleged boss of the Colombo crime family was sentenced in the Commission Case to a 100 year sentence back in the 1980's.  It was the prosecutions case was that Carmine Persico was the boss of the Colombo crime family from 1972-1985.  In a 71 page brief, with 44 exhibits, Persico's attorneys filed a motion which allegedly proves that Carmine Perisco was actually not the ruling boss of the Colombo crime family.

What makes this case interesting, is that there is actual proof from FBI memos, that acknowledge that Carmine Persico didn't take over the role as boss until 1982, which would render Rudy Guiliani's facts for the most part skeptical at best, of not to say even false. What makes this also very strange is that Lin DeVecchio, former FBI agent and Greg Scarpa handler, was behind much of the evidence that reportedly helped the Government's case against Carmine Persico.   Lin DeVecchio has long been held accountable off the record for allowing Greg Scarpa to continue to murder even though he was on the FBI's CI list.

The contention is simple.  If Carmine Persico was officially the boss in the time frame set by the federal Government, then you have a case.  However, if Persico was not the official boss, then he cannot be charged in the commission case, because he effectively wouldn't have been on the commission at the time, and could not have conspired to kill Vincent Gigante in 1979.  In the outline which was submitted by Persico's attorney's was examples of false allegations made by Lin DeVecchio, based on information provided by Greg Scarpa, who at the time was playing sides against one another for his own advancement.

An example of this would be the FBI memo from November 5, 1980. DeVecchio learned from a "top informant," Greg Scarpa, that Carmine Perisco had been bumped up in rank in 1980 to acting boss, taking over from Thomas DiBella who had stepped down after the approval from the commission.

Joe Pistone, AKA Donnie Brasco, while he was an FBI agent undercover testified at the commission trial, and actively took part in crimes from 1976-81.  He was a part of a conspiracy to murder Bruno Indelicato who was sentenced to 20 years in prison as a result of the commission trial.  Pistone admitted his own book that he "conspired to murder Bruno."

Lin DeVecchio

This story is two tier.  If we assume that Perisco was actually not the boss, then he shouldn't have been in effect a part of the commission trial.  The information given to the Feds completely shows that, that information came from Lin Devecchio through Greg Scarpa.  A glaring example of injustice was Anthony Salerno, who was convicted as boss of the Genovese crime family, sentenced to 100 years and died in prison as a result, even when we know now, that Vincent Gigante was the boss of the Genovese crime family.  Just based on that example alone, Carmine Perisco at least deserves to be heard.

You don't have to look far to see other glowing examples of the FBI's mishandling of informants and misdeeds.  Whitey Bulger for example, was allowed to murder the entire time he was officially on the FBI'S payroll. One of the rules, is that mobsters can continue to break laws as long as it doesn't involved violence.  History has shown us, that Whitey Bulger continued to murder, Greg Scarpa continued to murder, and the list goes on and on, meanwhile the very handlers of these informants sought high profile convictions that they were willing to turn a blind eye to murder as long as the bottom line was clear.  They wanted a big fish.  This is exactly why guys like Salvatore Gra
vano and others are given a pass at egregious crimes, because the fish the Government seeks is bigger than the one before them.

The point is, if it's factual that Carmine Perisco was the boss, then all bets are off, however if we are basing testimony from alleged corrupt FBI agents, and there is enough factual evidence to support that Lin DeVecchio in fact did allow Scarpa to kill and turned a blind eye to it, then justice says that Persico deserves to be heard, at least in the respect to ensure the Government got it correct.  Also, it's worth mentioning that there are things Greg Scarpa lied and made up, to support his bid to take over the Colombo crime family, and based on that information alone, Perisco deserves a chance at freedom after spending 30 plus years in prison.