Merlino can be a complete idiot quite honestly. To him, everyone is a rat which is completely ignorant and foolish. Sonny Franzese a rat? C'mon. He also called Greg Scarpa Jr a rat. Is he fuckin serious. Jr was arrested and sentenced to heavy time way before his father was exposed and he never knew about his dad. He did 35 years in prison , 3x the amount of time Merlino ever did. Scarpa Jr did give info about an islamic terrorist but that is patriotic in my view.
Hey Merlino, if you had info about a terrorist who was going to blow up a school or a commit some other atrocities, you wouldn't say anything and wouldn't save the children??? Are you fuckin retarded! If you ever did do that and word got out that you did, you would be the most hated man in America. That said, I do think a lot of your "rat talk" is bloviating while a lot of it is legit.
Do like his show though, he just goes off the rails sometimes.