Carmine John Persico, Ten Most Wanted Fugitive #390: a blurred, enlarged head-and-shoulders photograph of a man in a jacket and tie, cut out against a white background. — Open the full imageJPG, 523 × 744 px, 0.0 MB

Carmine John Persico, Ten Most Wanted Fugitive #390 (FBI)

Photograph from the FBI's Ten Most Wanted historical pictures, captioned: "Due to an FBI investigation, Persico was arrested in Wantagh, New York, by FBI agents on February 15, 1985."

Date: 1985-02-15
Kind: photograph
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Historical Pictures
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: Published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in its Ten Most Wanted historical pictures; the image page shows no third-party credit. A work of the United States government, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The FBI serves the image at the cited URL; a copy downloaded from it on 12 October 2026 is stored here.

The FBI’s Ten Most Wanted historical pictures list Carmine John Persico as fugitive number 390. The image page is titled “390. Carmine John Persico” and captioned: “Former Ten Most Wanted Fugitive #390: Due to an FBI investigation, Persico was arrested in Wantagh, New York, by FBI agents on February 15, 1985.” The repository lists the file at 30 KB.

The FBI gives no date for the photograph itself; the date on this page is the arrest date in the caption. The image is a blurred enlargement and is not a booking photograph. The court records on his prosecution are filed separately: 621 F. Supp. 842, 832 F.2d 705 and 868 F.2d 524.

The copy shown here is the original file, downloaded from the FBI on 12 October 2026.

itemUnited States v. Persico, 621 F. Supp. 842 (S.D.N.Y. 1985)Judge Keenan's pretrial ruling of October 2, 1985 in the Colombo family RICO case, denying motions for severance and transfer. It gives the Commission case's district docket as "United States v. Salerno, S 85 Cr. 139 (RO)."itemUnited States v. Persico, 832 F.2d 705 (2d Cir. 1987)Second Circuit opinion of October 27, 1987 affirming the RICO convictions of Carmine Persico and other Colombo family defendants tried in the Southern District of New York. It sets out the government's description of the family's structure.itemUnited States v. Salerno, 868 F.2d 524 (2d Cir. 1989)Second Circuit opinion on the appeal from the Southern District of New York trial of Anthony Salerno and seven other defendants, decided January 31, 1989.