The Philadelphia mafia remains at least by traditional mob standards to be a dysfunctional family as various factions try and coexist on the streets. According to sources, this hasn’t stopped the Philly mob from adding to its ranks with a recent making ceremony led by alleged boss Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino.
At least three new members were inducted into the mafia in Philadelphia, according to sources one of which was somehow related to Phil Narducci. With the current instability within the family, the move to induct one of Narducci’s guys seems to be a sort of goodwill gesture to keep things peaceful. Even with the addition of some new blood the family remains fractured into various factions representing two different eras of the crime family’s history according to Scott Burnstein and his Gangsterreport.
“Joey Merlino“
The Scrafo era mobsters from the 1980’s are separated into two faction, one led by Phil Narducci and another by Joseph “Joey Pung” Pungitore. The Merlino faction from the 90’s which was once whole has now been split into two camps, one backing alleged family boss Joey Merlino and another backing former Merlino consigliere George Borgesi. Recent tensions between Borgesi and former underboss Marty Angelina caused a break in the Merlino faction according to reports. Sources confirm that Merlino tried to mediate the dispute unsuccessfully among the childhood friends after Borgesi requested permission to kill Angelina for moving in on his rackets while he was in prison. Borgesi is believed to now be establishing a power base mostly backed by non-made guys outside of South Philly.
Things remain quiet overall as the factions have peacefully co-existed so far with acting boss Steven Mazzone as a sort of intermediary between the key players in Merlino and Narducci who have never seen eye to eye. The feds maintain that Merlino is currently the official boss of the family with Mazzone serving as acting boss handling day to day operations while John “Johnny Chang” Ciancaglini serves as underboss. Former acting boss Joseph Ligambi and veteran mobster Joseph “Chickie” Ciangcaglini both serve as dual consigliere’s. Although it seems with the various factions that have developed the Philly mafia may not be fully functioning along the lines of the traditional mafia structure.
Merlino remains in Florida, where he has lived since his release from prison in 2011 but has made several trips back to Philadelphia and the Jersey Shore in the last few months now that he is off parole and has no limitations. Although some believe he is being influenced by some of his key people to spend more time in Philly overseeing things on the streets. It seems the mob in the City of Brotherly Love is a powder keg which could explode at any time and with the history of this Cosa Nostra family it would be a surprise to no one if things eventually became violent.
Kind of surprised that with such instability between the ranks that they are making new guys in Philly. I am sure its needed to begin to replenish the street level ranks of the family but seems like odd timing unless things are getting a little more settled between the different sides.
the family is a joke though guys are getting made into a half a family its all broken up if it was not for steve and mikey lance there would be bodies this is not as settled as people think
joey spends all day in florida not running the family geogre has nothing to do with the mob
philip has his crew scott said one of his guys got made which i have my doubts to try and keep him happy he hates all the merlino guys the only guy philip likes is steve if it was not for steve
joey pung i high doubt is kicking up
geogre like joey pung are doing there own things
With this making ceremony it tells me things must be calming down. If things were still not good I doubt a making ceremony would go on. Philly is trying to rebuild with key guys back on the street.
there not rebuliding really sure the merlino crew is rebuilding but everyone else…
joey pung i highly doubt is kicking up and if he it is to steve
philip is kicking up but to steve he hates everyone apart from mikey lance and steve
joey spends 24/7 in florida not helping running the family
geogre is not even asslicated with the family and geogre is right though i always say he is a nutjob he is right marty should get whacked marty was robbing him marty at the time of his arrest was “acting” underboss now he did not need to go robbing geogres guys like lou moncellao joey ruled in martys favor because geogre has been away along time geogre is rightfully so fed up and is right in setting up his own thing. Joey and johnny chang did not give him anything when he got out he should go out on his own
this is no comfortable family
Not everyone is right on those forums , Joey pung and Phil narducci iF they are still active members and they are earning , they WILL be kicking up to someone , if there was all these factions vying for control and nobody was kicking up then believe me the shooting would have started a year ago
Agreed it seems like these guys are definitely kicking up to Mazzone who in turn is kicking up to Merlino if he is indeed still running things (which seems likely) if the cash flow was not happening there would def be troubles across the board.
i can imagine philip kicking up to steve
joey pung i doubt he could once again if he is it would prob be steve
i would be shocked if anyone was kicking up to joey
We’re do u think Steve sends the money ??? All roads lead to Merlino , they r kicking up to Merlino one way or another
true but if steve was not there they would not kick up to merlino they kick up to steve out of respect
plus this johnny chang and narducci situation is not good they are not getting along
its not a happy family things should run without any violence unless something happens to steve like an indictment then i dont know how things will go esp with joey spending alot of time in Florida
feds are after joey you can tell they are already building an indicment but it wont be easy to convict joey hard to catch someone has to flip you wont get him on wiretap only tape he was ever on was the previte tapes. They wont let another embarrassment like the ligambi trial happen again if they are indicted this time it will be a strong case its coming though 3 years they will be under indicment is my predication could be wrong but thats what i think and will get joey on a good sentence
Geogre is not even asslicated with the family? You sir, seem like an impeccable source of knowledge.
from what i am hearing he is running his own things he has his crew but not with the mob but do you blame him? they all screwed him over
marty was robbing his guy on the street lou moncellao back in the 2000s johnny chang would not give any of the rackets to him joey did not back him in any sitdown he got nothing when he got out his brother has scraps
now steve and johnny chang chickie joey they all have there reasons joey according to mob protocol should have backed geogre against marty but he dident because he knows geogre is always letting rats in bobby lusi in that greek guy who was his celly and lou moncellao and because he is a headcase
geogre will keep making money he is fine without the mob he has good thing going on he is better on his own anyway joey scams everyone and it is no happy family
Geogre is not even asslicated? What the fuck are we talking about here?
Read the post by “The mafia” directly above. Get it now dipshit?
The baldino kid who is close to Phil is allegedly one of the guys whose been made , another is Vincent procopio
Thanks Dom , was wondering who it may have been.
i am hearing vince got made but baldino i am hearing mixed reports over if he got made he was with philip he must be the relative scott was talking about
vince got busted in 2007 with mikey lance and those guys
Skinny Joey is a Rehabilitated Restauranteur in Boca. Just because a person travels to Philly or South Jersey does not make them a criminal. The First Amendment Guarantees the Right of Freedom of Association, and he has the Right of Interstate Travel.