‘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 [...]

Who’s Who Now In The Philly Mob

A newly released organizational chart made headlines in an Atlantic City courtroom this week, providing a who’s who on Philadelphia’s organized crime family.
As Fox 29’s Dave Schratwieser and the Inquirer’s George Anastasia report, there are a few surprises in the details.

Source: myfoxphilly

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 [...]

Nearly $5 million mob-linked fraud cited

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 [...]

What has Happened to the South Philly Mob?

It’s been at least six years since anyone has been killed by the Philadelphia Mafia. Is it the passing of a way of life, or an eerie calm before an ­approaching storm? Our writer takes to the streets of South Philly — and sips wine with the current Godfather — to find [...]

Judge rules adviser to Borgata sports bet ring not ‘in the mob’

MAYS LANDING — An admitted member of an illegal Atlantic City sports-betting ring went free with a suspended four-year sentence Thursday morning as Superior Court Judge Michael Donio deemed him “a low- to mid-level agent.”
Anthony Nicodemo, 37, must pay a $10,000 fine within 30 days. He faced a maximum three-year sentence [...]

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