"Five Families" by Selwyn Raab has a bunch of info on Persico and the Colombo War, in particular Chapters 29 (Snake Charmer) and 30 (Carmine's War).

I guess Carmine had never heard the legal maxim "he who represents himself in court has a fool for a client". He obviously thought he could charm the jury enough to sway them, but shot himself in the foot with statements like the one made during the cross examination of Joe Cantalupo "You was angry because you got beat up, and you got beat up because you didn't pay back the money!"

LMAO