It seems that prosecutors may be looking to separate the defendants in the upcoming mafia case attached to the fed labeled East Coast LCN Enterprise.
The case includes alleged leader and Philadelphia mafia boss Joseph (Skinny Joey) Merlino along with high ranking captains from the New York mafia mainly the Genovese crime family along with members and associates from other NY mafia families. According to prosecutors, the mafia enterprise was led by Merlino and Genovese capos Pasquale (Patsy) Parrello and Eugene (Rooster) O’Nofrio and operated up and down the East Coast. The Cosa Nostra enterprise didn’t exactly follow historic American mafia protocol and defense attorneys claim the feds have manufactured the whole concept in an effort to strengthen their case.
“Joseph Merlino”
The members of the East Coast La Cosa Nostra Enterprise have been charged with various crimes including extortion, illegal gambling, loansharking, casino-style gambling, credit card, and health-care fraud, along with racketeering conspiracy and more. There is now speculation that the attempt to separate the defendants especially Joey Merlino may be a sign of upcoming superseding charges against the Philly mobster. A decision on whether or not the defendants will be separated before heading to trial is expected to be made by February 3rd. Authorities have alleged that Merlino was also “working in earnest to rebuild the Philadelphia crime family” from his home in Florida.
It seems possible that these latest developments could lead to new charges against Merlino and possibly even new charges against other members of the Philadelphia mafia.
Hmm this is an interesting development and you have to think if prosecutors decide to seperate Merlino from the rest it is probably not good new for Jeoy. We may very well see some new charges which just may including some others from Philly etc.
They want Joey bad. They will need a murder to truly nail him. These charges seem to be more white collar and basic charges, like gambling. Crazy how bankers can rape investors and walk away clean. Joey goes white collar and will get destroyed.
true only camprionson is gotti and the jimmy Hoffa case they want joey bad. The guy doesn’t help himself though this florida case is his fault if he wasn’t so greedy he would not have ended up here that guy rubeo who wore the wire on him joey should have never been dealing with him or New York. None of those philly guys even knew this existed they were furious when they found out by all accounts and now joey is making them hold a “fundraiser” to help pay his legal fees guys are rightfully so getting annoyed.
Here is a perfect example of joeys greedy he tried to scam New York Parello and danny marino junior out of 7k he is making tens of thousands of that scam on a weekly basis and he still had to skim of the top and then he got all annoyed when parello demanded he pay the money to rubeo which he did because joey is not stupid he is on New York turf. Whole incident caught on tape cant wait till this goes to trial a lot of interesting info will come out
Wow, where are the transcripts?
It was Pagno not parello my mistake here is the whole article on it. This is why a lot of people don’t like merlino this sort of stuff never pays for anything bets and never pays but collects when he wins
Reverend Al’s Mob Supervisor Had A Cameo Role In Five Family Case
Daniel PaganoGenovese capo Daniel Pagano was not charged last month — or even mentioned — in the huge racketeering case against 46 mob-linked defendants from five crime families. But sources say he played a major role in a mob sitdown in the case that involved the boss of the Philadelphia crime family and a millionaire broker with a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
Sources say that neither man — defendants Joseph (Skinny Joey) Merlino, nor Anthony Cirillo, the owner of Princeton Securities Group, which has hedge funds and other major investors as clients — were at the sitdown. It was called, sources say, to resolve a $14,000 gambling dispute that involved the two men, and a third defendant in the racketeering conspiracy indictment, a reputed Gambino associate from Delray Beach, Florida named Carmine Gallo.
Anthony CirilloGambino associate Daniel Marino Jr., who is charged along with Merlino, Cirillo, and Gallo, with being “involved in an illegal sports gambling business that was based in New York, New Jersey, and Florida,” and John (J.R.) Rubeo, the mob turncoat in the case, attended the sitdown in March of 2014 at a steak house in New Jersey, according to law enforcement and other sources.
The sources say that Pagano was called on to decide the dispute when Rubeo, on instructions from his FBI handlers, complained to his mob superior, capo Pasquale (Patsy) Parrello, that Cirillo, 51, Gallo, 38, and Merlino, 54, were “jerking him around” by pointing fingers at each other.
“Cirillo kept telling JR he gave the money to Carmine, and Carmine kept telling JR he gave the money to Joey,” said one source, who added that Merlino, who has a longstanding reputation of being a deadbeat when it comes to gambling losses, was ducking Rubeo.
Daniel Marino JrAt the sitdown, sources said that Pagano listened to Marino, 49, explain that Cirillo, of Englewood Cliffs, NJ, was not a beat artist, and that he had indeed sent along the money he owed, but that it apparently ended up in Merlino’s pocket, through no fault of Cirillo’s.
Pagano, a savvy heavyweight wiseguy who was a major player in the lucrative oil and gas, daisy-chain scheme with Russian gangsters in the 1980s, and who was the Reverend Al Sharpton’s mob supervisor when Reverend Al was playing ball with wiseguys back in the day, was apparently not awestruck by the stature of Merlino or Cirillo.
“I really like Anthony Cirillo, don’t make me not like him,” said Pagano, according to a source who is familiar with the discussion, one of hundreds tape recorded by Rubeo in the five years he wore a wire for the feds. “We played games like this back in the 1970s,” said Pagano. “I gave it this guy, I gave it to that guy. Listen, if Anthony Cirillo gave it to Joey, and Joey doesn’t give it to this kid JR, then he’s going to have to pay it again.”
Carmine GalloA day or two later, after Rubeo had traveled back to Boca Raton, sources say Merlino called him, and chastised him for being a “tattletale,” and causing him trouble with the Genovese crime family.
“Here’s seven thousand,” said Merlino. “I gave the other seven thousand to Carmine.”
Pagano, who was indicted on racketeering charges for heading a lucrative gambling operation based in Rockland County a few months after the sitdown, is not charged in the Merlino case, most likely because his plea agreement covered his role in a gambling operation through August 7, 2014, about five months after he took part in the New Jersey sitdown.
joey is getting hit with a second indictment I said it even before this bust there has been two investigations into merlino one is the FBI in philly which want joey badly they haven’t brought there case yet they are embarrassed by what happened in 2001 they want him on those murders. Second was the feds in New York and Florida the case he is currently involved in merlino does not seem to be the main target in this it was parello and O’Nofrio this was an investigation into the five familys not philly that should be worrying for him because the worst has not arrived yet.
Feds in Philly were even apparently according to geogre A furious they dident even know about this investigation if they had known they would have learnt important information which could help them example geogre A used was that mikey lance and dom grande were with joey merlino in a couple of the meetings in New York.
They wont stop till Joey is behind bars for the rest of his life or dead they have a hardon for himplus the ligambi trials embarrassed them again
Thanks for the welcome boss. Yes, the american mafia was once THE most powerful force in the 20th century..Capone and Lucky and Carlo Gambino were THE best ever, old school values they shared with their families and crews. Lcn had it all going good till the 90s. I doubt Merlino will beat the rap, like what was said, once the feds are on to you, they won’t stop. But who knows?
its a shadow of itself no doubt about it the 80s was the beginning of the end to be honest the commission trial the effect that had on LCN nation wide was never the same again. Five familys apart from the westside and bonannos nearly tore themselves apart colombos had a war lucheses had nutjobs In charge and gambinos had gravano flipping. 90s five familys were hurt badly even Genovese family barney gigante benny eggs gambinos Colombos and lucheses had it the worst. Bonnanos got away with it under Massimo after Donnie brasco in the 70s feds backed of for awhile they rebuilt but early 2000s they self destructed half his capos and underboss flipped and then even he Massimo flipped.
Philly nearly destroyed itself under stanfa then Natale and merlino liigambi keeping a low profile saved them. They could have self destructed in 1999 pete caprio the then north jersey capo actually planned to kill ligambie mazzone and borgesi feds busted him before he could do it New York gave the go ahead and offered there help in exchange they were going to be allowed to put there own poker machines in SP it would have been the end of that family New York would have moved in eventually and taken everything
Well fellas, I think that this is the going to be the final nail in the coffin for the Philadelphia crime family. They’re probably all going to bomb rush the DA’s office to see who can get the best rat’s deal first. After Joseph Massino flipped is anybody ratting a surprise any more?
Awesome site here, I agree, what ever happened to omerta? In my humble opinion, Sammy the bull was the biggest rat ever and really was the demise of LCN as we knew it
Rico happened. That and inducting morons. Gravano Defecting did seem to make others more comfortable with it. The 90’s had many major rats. The Americanized gangsters didnt hold the same values as old school,
Thanks for the welcome! Yes, the American mafia used to have old school values. The 5 families really had it going good until the 90s. Capone, Lucky, and Carlo Gambino were the best bosses ever. Classy gentlemen, unlike bosses such as Big Paul or Gotti.
Paul Castellano really wasn’t a bad boss. He was white collar, a true businessman. It was stupid to have him killed considering he was about to go away for a hundred years anyway. John Gotti had no business heading a crime family. There were too many other guys in that family who would have been better choices.
Paul alienated the street guys. That’s was his downfall. He was hit because he would have had Gotti, ruggerio killed if not. His puppet Biloti would have been running things. delocrace was the only reason gotti’s crew was still around, he was going to demote Gotti at very least. I agree Gotti was horrible boss. I think Gravano would have been a rat at some point anyways. As he had never done prison time before, Gotti had already served several years
I agree. A good boss has the love and respect of all of his troops and keeps any potential for infighting to a minimum. That’s something that Paul Castellano never achieved. Maybe Salvatore Gravano would have turned rat, but I don’t think he would have been bugged talking about past murders and other family business like John Gotti was. He was smarter than that. If you think about it it’s the tapes that sunk John Gotti. Who knows how things would have turned out had they never got him on tape.
Gotti would have done something stupid sooner or later, a street thug at best. The dude got into a street fight over parking spot as damn captain of the most powerful family for god sakes.
Gravano was smarter than Gotti, but I think he was rat waiting to happen. In my opinion anyways.
Not sure who a good boss would have been. Don’t recall any amazing candidates, Frank Cali is a god send. Seems to be strongest boss since Carlo.
What about James Failla? Or Daniel Marino? Or Joseph Corrao? There were other more capable captains than John Gotti is what I’m saying. Yeah as I said every crime family has their most legendary boss, and for the Gambinos that’s Carlo Gambino. There will never be another Carlo Gambino, though Vincent Mangano and Albert Anastasia weren’t bad either. Really the only disastrous boss they’ve had was John Gotti and anyone named Gotti. Francesco Cali is doing well so far, but are you sure he’s not answering to Domenico Cefalu?
its up for debate, I know some think Cefula is still the boss. Personally, I’ve been saying Cali is boss for two years. He’s the future either way. Outstanding connections to Sicilian Mafia, something other bosses don’t have. I’m sure Cefula is ready to play more a consigliere role, not in title, but in terms of just advising. I’m sure he still gets tributes.
Also, I’m sure those captains would have faired better, I just had a brain lapse.
We don’t really know enough about Cali yet how he is leading he is smart not been busted since 08 came up with jackie nose good earner in the past nearly got whacked by junior gotti with jackie in the 90s and is a millionaire but as for how much power he has or how he is running the family and even that’s debatatble my point is saying he is the next Carlo bit of a jump we don’t know enough yet for all we know he is a weak boss or he is not really the boss
I’m not saying next Carlo, I’m saying best leader since Carlo. In official boss capacity. That’s my opinion, I know some may not agree. I say that because it’s been 9 years since last bust, deep Sicilian mafia connections, lots of legitimate business, making huge money, and he’s low key, smart. The troops seem to like him. The Gotti era was a joke, peter too, Castalano was never liked, and was caught on tape. So to say he’s best since Carlo is not that hard considering who came after Carlo. Jackie was a great leader, but I think cali is young enough to make a big impact.
pete should have never been leader not even sure he wanted it was forced on him. Arnold was liked good leader he was basicicly running things till jack falcone bust. He quit as soon as he got out I know he is completely retired doesn’t need to be involved he is a old man. Nicky Corezzo if he had been out long enough after his parole he would have taken over and I mean that Jackie those guys would have not even tried to say no nicky is a real gangster no doubt even before that bust he was a capo but he had more influence than everyone nickys problem is he always attracts rats a lot of them have come out of that crew now jo jo was a big player aswell for a long time. As for Jackie frankie is his guy as well liked Jackie good boss who knows he had a real gambling problem why he is still probably involved him and gotti back in the day used to gamble all the time together and like I said before Nicky Corezzo probably had more power than Jackie and he wasn’t even boss. Lenny was a very well liked guy.
Celfeau I was very surprised when it came out back then he was underboss but expected him to be made boss in 2011. Frankie being boss you could be right there either way we all agree he is in a top position will be interesting to see what happens when the feds do there next bust because its coming westside gambinos and lucheses you could even include colombos in last couple of years there leaderships not getting indicted will not last forever
You can be sure that Cali is on top of that Feds target list of late that is for sure. Whether he is boss already or not his street cred and name has been on the rise so that bullseye is def there now for feds to make a big splash headline. Think your right the next round of big indictments in NY could very well be centered around the Gambino’s the Lucchese’s or at least that is where the Feds will likely be aiming,
Will definitely be interesting to see how Cali handles the top spot once in and if he is already in we should know before much longer. He def has the street cred and the pedigree and connections it seems to move the family forward but as always the feds may have something to say about that before he even has a chance to make his full mark.
Interesting tidbit. Current LA boss is tommy gambino, whose related to john gambino and frank Cali. Curious to know how those powerful connections have helped rebuild the mostly defunct family.
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they will be around long after merlino there is more guys on the streets at the moment in SP since the 80s and a lot of young guys aswell. Remember the trial in 2001 none of merlinos top guys flipped none of them borgesi mazzone marty johnny chang all facing murder charges he has tight inner circle they will never flip they have lost family done heavy time already for this family . Not one made guy has flipped since the 90s in SP look at nicdemeo doing 25 years. And people forget after merlino and his guys went away how devastated that family was and they still managed to rebuild.
I doubt the whole merlino faction will get indicted anyway but even if it does there is the ligambi faction narducci might make a move joey pung aswell other scarfo guys faffy. Borgesi has his own thing going on mikey lance has his crew plus the North Jeresy crew. Guys like staino are getting out in a few years aswell.
True, philly may not be the brightest or most powerful, but damn they are loyal. These guys have been together since childhood and come from a Mafia pedigree.
Yea even if Joey goes down and Ligambi/Mazzone etc are also part of that collateral damage the family has plenty of stock on the streets now to move right along. The Merlino era would end and another begin which could very likely include some of the old school Scarfo era leadership.
I agree 100% if Joey gets 10-20 years and couple others go down, then Narducci brothers faction or Joey ping….faction or north Jersey Big Lou F…..are kept in tactical position to continue the Philadelphia La cosa nostra onwards for years and years
Becoming a rat is almost expected these days. That being said, the philly crew has stayed loyal to Joey. His days are numbered, the government wants him like Gotti. When the Feds want you, they will eventually get you. Especially when you are so blatantly flamboyant like Joey. I agree with the Mafia, plenty of guys on the street to take the reigns, scarfo era guys are back out.
Like some have said,this is Merlinos fault whether greed or talking to wrong person is the reason. Most “honest” Cos’ know “Telu- Commutes” slow the working day b/c of having to Email/be on the Phone most times. Merlino was smart to run Philly from MIA,but like most getting busted lately it’s thosr Calls that “bring you down”. Merlino should be worrying since imho one if his Pals will Rat him out b/c if not for this so called”Eadt Coast LCN” most Philly Guys wouldn’t possibly be facing charges. Greed always gets someone else caught,especially when you throw RICO into the Charges