Mafia boss Carmine (Junior) Persico, who managed to joke about his 100 year prison sentence in a letter to Gang Land two years ago, is a little testy these days, judging from his latest correspondence.

Persico took issue with a special Sunday Daily News section that chronicled our mob coverage over the years and credited him with the sensational 1957 assasination of Murder Inc. boss Albert Anastasia in a hotel barbershop.

"You inaccurately associated my name with the Anastasia assasination," wrote Persico, who then showed off some of the legal expertise he picked up by representing himself in the historic Commission case.

(His legal work at trial, it must be noted, was no worse than that of lawyers hired by other mob bosses, who were all convicted and sentenced to 100 years.)

Persico said that the details of Anastasia's death came from statements of an informer contained ion an FBI "302" form, that the word "assasinated" never appeared there, and therefore, he said, Gang Land was guilty of "misquoting the 302."

Like any good lawyer worth his fee, however, Persico omitted a few things. He left out that the informer was a relative who hid him for months and that the informer described Persico thumping his chest and saying, "The FBI knows who really hurt Anastasia, but that fag Crazy Joe Gallo took the credit."

In the same letter, the Mafia boss had a much better gripe. He pointed out that recent testimony in the so-called "Windows" case has put the lie to a 1986 sentencing memo in which federal prosecutors accused him "of participating in the murders" of brothers Ralph and Thomas Spero in 1980.

"I see no mention of this in your column," wrote Persico, who concluded by asking gang Land to right the wrongs that he noted.

After due consideration, Gang Land gives one of its most dedictaed readers and frequent pen pals a "yea" on the Spero borthers complaint, but a "nay" on the Anastasia gripe.

Two out of three ain't bad.