@Bensonhurst.
Carmine Persico was a captain with the biggest crew and he had the backing of the commission; but I have to tell you…: He had something to do with Joe Colombo’s death….
How could he not??
Why do people overlook this?
A captain becoming a boss out of no where?? He was in prison also.
Let us not forget that Persico was part the Gallo crew whom Gambino incited to rebel against Profaci originally. Then, after Colombo was shot, Chubby Rossillo shoots and kills Jerome Johnson, who had ties to the Gambino Family, Persico takes Rossillo under his wing and gives him a button and places him under a good Capo. Clearly, the connection between Persico and Gambinos becomes stronger after reviewing the history between them.
