PHILADELPHIA - December 17, 2013 --
Action News has learned that longtime Philadelphia attorney A. Charles Peruto Sr. has died. For decades, Peruto represented clients in some of the region's most notable cases.
Many of the lawyers who knew him say he was one of the area's best.
Peruto, Sr. had been ill for the last six months and he died earlier in the day Tuesday.
A. Charles Peruto was 86-years-old.