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Joseph Salvatore "Skinny Joey" Merlino (born March 13, 1962) is an American mobster and reputed boss of the Philadelphia crime family. [1] He rose to power and seized control of the organization in the mid-nineties after he fought against the John Stanfa faction of the family. He has led the crime family in gambling, loan sharking, drug ...
Lawerence "Yogi" Merlino – former captain. He is the deceased uncle of current Philadelphia family boss Joey Merlino and the brother to Chuckie Merlino. Due to his ownership of a construction company based in Atlantic City, Merlino relatives have been repeatedly denied a gaming license by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission since 1989.
Joseph "Joey D." DiNapoli (born July 12, 1935) is the former consigliere in the Lucchese family. He has two brothers, Vincent and Louis , who are both members of the Genovese crime family . In 1969, DiNapoli was arrested in New York on gambling charges. [119]
Reputed Philadelphia mob boss "Skinny Joey" Merlino wants no part of President Donald Trump's desperate efforts to flip the results of his loss to President-elect Joe Biden. A lawyer for Trump ...
While Joey Merlino was in prison in 1990, he met Ralph Natale, and the two allegedly conspired to take over the Philadelphia crime family from Stanfa. [8] [9] Merlino was released from prison in April 1992, after he was convicted in January 1990 of planning the heist and sentenced to three years in prison.
The Independent was tipped off to the existence of the photograph after reporting that Mr Trump had recently posed for a snapshot with Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino, who ran the Philadelphia ...
Angelo Jenaro Lutz, sometimes referred to by the nickname "Fat Ange", is a professional chef. He has appeared on several cooking programs and owns and operates an Italian-American restaurant in Collingswood, NJ. He is known by the moniker the "Kitchen Consigliere " due to his prior involvement with the Philadelphia mob scene in the 1990s that ...
In 1995, Louis Turrà – the leader of the 10th & Oregon Crew, overseeing the gang's marijuana, cocaine and heroin dealing and sports betting enterprise – was severely beaten and robbed of his Rolex watch at an after-hours club by associates of Philadelphia crime family boss Joey Merlino, allegedly for failing to pay a Mafia street tax on ...