Merlino was made by john stanfa , I do know that in his younger life he was a horse jockey for a short time , my bet is he kicked up to his dad and his crew mainly consisted of the ciancaglinis , George borgesi and the mazzone's
Him and his childhood friends of ''youngsters'' also sold a lot of weed. They took regular trips to AC and I think one of Joey's associates was arrested for trying to extort a casino manager.
Joey was dreaming and talking about becoming boss ever since he started that line of work.
