Power..? what power..? the guys been in jail for a lifetime and now his son has the same honor.
Someone should have paid a guy on the inside to shank Persico Sr. and be done with this nightmare of a family chapter.
His name is famous, so it gets used in news reports and by investigators all the time. I agree he can't have any power. He has been locked away since 1985, and before that he had done a lot of time. I think the Columbos have long been split into separate factions that let each go own way. The Scarpa war was exception of course.
