The reputed “heir apparent” to a New York City Mafia circle of relatives does not need to be promoted to godfather, his legal professional mentioned in courtroom Friday.
Theodore “Skinny Teddy” Persico, a nephew of 2 overdue Colombo crime circle of relatives bosses, plans to flip his again at the mob and pass immediately when he finishes his newest jail time period, legal professional Joseph Corozzo mentioned.
“He has no desire to be boss,” he mentioned.
Persico, 60, was once sentenced to Friday to 5 years in jail for racketeering within the Colombo circle of relatives’s 20-year-shakedown of a Queens-based building union.
Before finding out his punishment, Persico advised U.S. District Judge Hector Gonzalez that he was once “ready and willing to accept anything you feel I deserve.”
“I want to go home and move my family and business to New Jersey, to get out of the New York City area,” he mentioned in federal courtroom in Brooklyn. “I’m getting old. This is not how it should be. I need to change myself. I’m not looking to hurt anybody like I did in the past.”
Persico’s fiancee, Nicole Russo, owns a Staten Island auto-body store that he ran earlier than his most up-to-date arrest, in accordance to courtroom papers.
Prosecutors have mentioned Persico was once named “heir apparent” of the Colombo circle of relatives all over a November 2020 assembly of high-level gangsters at a Brooklyn eating place.
Persico — whose overdue uncle, Carmine “the Snake” Persico, was once a Colombo boss — was once allegedly slated to take over in May 2023, when he completed 3 years of supervised unencumber from jail.
But he ended up being charged in a September 2021 indictment that centered the Colombos’ whole ruling hierarchy, referred to as the “administration.”
Days after Persico pleaded in charge in July, the Gangland News web page reported that the Colombos had picked Robert “Little Robert” Donofrio as their performing boss.
Persico’s co-defendants integrated any other uncle, then-Colombo boss Andrew “Mush” Russo, who died in April 2022 whilst expecting trial.
Reputed Colombo consigliere Ralph DiMatteo, who on Tuesday was once sentenced to 3 years in jail, have shyed away from arrest by means of flying to Florida an afternoon earlier than everybody else was once rounded up by means of the FBI.
DiMatteo made headlines when a photograph that confirmed him taking a look greater than a bit like Tony Soprano as he lounged in a pool was once posted on social media whilst he was once in short at the lam.