Ex-FBI agent says NJ Merlinos are not mobsters

September 26, 2009 by The Boss · Leave a Comment

Joseph and Phyllis Merlino, involved with organized crime? Fuhgeddaboudit!
That was the testimony Friday of a former FBI official who helped bring down the Philadelphia mob in the late 1980s.
Although Joseph N. Merlino’s father, Lawrence “Yogi” Merlino, and his cousin Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino were high-ranking mobsters, former FBI agent Larry Schneider testified [...]

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Nearly $5 million mob-linked fraud cited

September 1, 2009 by The Boss · Leave a Comment

A federal bankruptcy trustee in Dallas has put a dollar figure on a multistate financial-fraud investigation linked to mobster Nicodemo S. Scarfo and Elkins Park business consultant Salvatore Pelullo.
The trustee has alleged the two men, through companies they controlled, took at least $4.86 million out of FirstPlus Financial Group, a company based [...]

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