‘Nostra’ members admit guilt for roles in bookmaking ring

They carried interesting mob nicknames like “Frankie the Fixer” and “Ralphie Head” and were part of the gang dubbed Delco Nostra, but their cases ended quietly with pleas, including one entered Nov. 20 by 43-year-old Louis “Bent Finger Louie” Monacello.
Wednesday, Monacello of South Philadelphia, said to be a Philly mob enforcer, [...]

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 [...]

Witness: Construction firm had mob ties

Far from being the self-made man he says he is, Joseph N. Merlino was actually set up in the construction business by his father, a convicted Mafia killer, a retired federal corruption investigator testified Monday.
Merlino and his mother are seeking a license that would permit their company, Bayshore Rebar of Pleasantville, to [...]

Ex-FBI agent says NJ Merlinos are not mobsters

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 [...]

Reputed Philly mobster is accused of spitting on cop

A reputed underboss in the Philadelphia mob was accused of spitting on a police officer during a confrontation at the Jersey shore.
Marty Angelina was charged with aggravated assault. It’s up to the Atlantic County prosecutor to decide whether to pursue a grand jury indictment.

Police said they were called to a condo in Margate [...]

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 [...]