He was in power from 2003-2008, whereas Alphonse Persico was only in power on the street for about a year.
Absolute nonsense. Allie Boy was in charge as soon as he got out in '95. Andy was the face of the family until '98, but he didn't move a muscle without Allie's say.
A Daily News article from January 8, 1995, summed it up nicely. It summed up what Alphonse was up to, and how he spent most of his time working at Romantique Limousines since his supervised release didn't expire until 1997. It reported that he was very reluctant to take the reigns. The article was written by Jerry Capeci, who had some high level sources under his belt at that time, including Lin DeVecchio, the head of the Colombo squad.
Also, Andrew 'Andy Mush' Russo was indicted as acting boss in 1996 and 1998.
Do you have any evidence that Alphonse was running things behind the scenes? Or are you just assuming?
