Reputed Philly mobster wins early release from jail

Joseph “Mousie” Massimino, the reputed underboss of the Philadelphia mob, is coming home after serving more than five years of a 10-year sentence on a New Jersey racketeering charge.
Judge Anthony Pugliese reduced Massimino’s sentence to time served during a sentence reconsideration hearing today in Camden County Superior Court.
In issuing what amounted to [...]

Police data show Phila. mob in decline

Joseph Ligambi, reputed boss of the Philadelphia-South Jersey mob, heads a criminal organization that has nearly as many active members in jail as it does on the streets.
Decimated by a 20-year onslaught of federal prosecutions, bloody internecine power struggles, and turncoat testimony, the local branch of La Cosa Nostra – which [...]