The rift between Philadelphia mafia pals Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino and George Borgesi seems to be at an end.
Merlino who is believed by many including authorities to still be the boss of the Philly-based Cosa Nostra family has bumped his boyhood pal Borgesi back up to captain according to Scott Burnstein and his gangsterreport. Although Borgesi was officially listed as a soldier after a previous bump down he has pretty much been seen by underlings as having a captain like role since his release from prison making this move more of a ceremonial gesture by Merlino to show there was no more bad blood.
“George Borgesi“
Merlino tasked old school mobster Joseph “Uncle Joe” Ligambi to once again take over as acting boss bringing him out of semi-retirement to stabilize things according to reports. The well respected Ligambi now leads an administration that also includes Steven Mazzone and Joseph “Chickie” Ciancaglini. Tensions have seemingly eased amongst the various factions within the Philly mafia and everyone is quietly back to doing business. Borgesi was causing waves claiming his rackets were raided by fellow mobster Marty Angelia while he was in prison and was angered that Merlino stood by and let it happen along with seeing control of the families Delaware County rackets handed over to John “Johnny Chang” Ciancaglini.
A series of sit-downs reportedly took place last summer in South Philly and over the winter down in Florida between Borgesi and Merlino. As a gesture of good will Merlino allegedly held a making ceremony inducting new members into the Philly mob family that are loyal to Borgesi and faction leader Phil Narduci. It seems like the recent bump up to capo has put the beef to rest and allowed Merlino to get Borgesi back on board.
Well its pretty well known that Borgesi can be a loose cannon so i guess if officially being capo again keeps him in line then why not. If Merlino is till running things (I believe he is) he has done a great job at putting the right people in place on streets in Philly to get the family to sort of gel and avoid any unneeded conflicts among the old and newer generation of guys on the streets. This could be as stable and strong as we have seen the Philly mob in a whole lot of years!
Good move by Joey, yeah Borgesi can be all over the place but hes a stand up guy did his time like a man and from what everyones saying he has kept everything under control on the streets for now with the guys since hes been out. Deff think he deserves the bump up, keep bulding the ranks only makes the family stronger.
Agreed even though he may be a bit off the edge at times he kept his mouth shut and did the time and these days esp that has to come with a reward when you come back home. Seems like Joey def has things together out there.
too many chiefs not enough indiens. This family is not strong merlino is not a good leader these guys have history of having no idea what they are doing joey especially ballys guy but boss please borgesi is another trouble maker he brings rats in bobby lusi that roger vella and lou moncellao.
and what scott is saying about narducci is rubbish shows how out of touch he is joey did not make anyone who is connected to philip joey baldino is NOT narduccis guy philip hates the guy and his mother he is johnny changs guy and is a rat his whole family are rats narducci hit him with a glass bottle at the Christmas party johnny chang ran away did nothing scared. Also narducci is not involved in the organization he has a crew of un made guys and works with the 10th and orgeon they hate merlino and they outpower that mob any day they beat marty angelini up last year merlino mob did nothing just asked for an apology but they are willing to beat up anothny borgesis ex wife pussys the whole mob
This is why New York is the real mob these guys are a joke. North jeresy crew scoops and lou fazzini joey grande servigo those guys are the last crew i consider LCN the rest are like a street gang. Greg was right these guys in philly are crazy
Agreed he did time and was in solitary confinement and George B never cracked..That Is hard time…So personally I don’t agree with some of his actions on the streets back in the day but deserves now to be rewarded for staying in line….
Its especially worth it if it keeps him from going off the reservation with any kind of antics in near future … things are seemingly good right now in Philly so less waves the better at this point.
too many chiefs not enough indiens. This family is not strong merlino is not a good leader these guys have history of having no idea what they are doing joey especially ballys guy but boss please borgesi is another trouble maker he brings rats in bobby lusi that roger vella and lou moncellao.
and what scott is saying about narducci is rubbish shows how out of touch he is joey did not make anyone who is connected to philip joey baldino is NOT narduccis guy philip hates the guy and his mother he is johnny changs guy and is a rat his whole family are rats narducci hit him with a glass bottle at the Christmas party johnny chang ran away did nothing scared. Also narducci is not involved in the organization he has a crew of un made guys and works with the 10th and orgeon they hate merlino and they outpower that mob any day they beat marty angelini up last year merlino mob did nothing just asked for an apology but they are willing to beat up anothny borgesis ex wife pussys the whole mob
This is why New York is the real mob these guys are a joke. North jeresy crew scoops and lou fazzini joey grande servigo those guys are the last crew i consider LCN the rest are like a street gang. Greg was right these guys in philly are crazy
Even though Merlino seems to have things under control,doesn’t it seem like things are going too smooth? I mean the Scarfo and Merlino guys having no outward beef or is it b/c Uncle Joe and Mazzone being able to “work” things out? Also,does it still look like Merlino is in the Feds crosshairs?
Thee Joey Pungitore crew is least talked about but is making money and has family blood Lines ,Blond Babe who parlayed money and real-estate deals and is being repeated now….by Joey Pung…much smarter than George B crew