If Persico were black, he'd have suffered meager prison conditions for decades, and would certainly be dead. He's been palling around with Bernie Madoff. His prison experience has been quite privileged. I don't see why the government should expand on that privilege by actually letting him out.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
