The feds have set their sights on new murder charges against longtime Colombo acting boss Alphonse “Allie Boy” Persico in connection with the 1999 disappearance of the crime family’s underboss.
A mob turncoat who was close to the late Mafia big William “Wild Bill” Cutolo revealed details of the feds’ ammunition against Persico and a second powerful wise guy, jailed underboss John “Jackie” DeRoss, during his debut on the witness stand last week.
Joseph “Joe Campy” Campanella testified he was asked by DeRoss to help rub out Cutolo about two months before the powerful mobster vanished in May 1999.
A couple of weeks after the murder, Campanella was called to a secret meeting with Persico and DeRoss at a house on 78th Street in Brooklyn.
“They just told me that Bill isn’t around anymore, and it would be family business as usual,” Campanella, 45, testified.
“I knew Bill wasn’t going to show up anymore. I knew Bill was probably killed.”
DeRoss said that Cutolo, whose body has not been recovered, was eliminated to stop him from seizing the reins of the crime family from Persico while the boss was in prison on Florida gun charges.
“To my knowledge, no such meeting ever took place,” Persico’s lawyer Barry Levin said.
A call to a lawyer for DeRoss was not returned.