Very nice and I won't .

PB is dangerous now with the attachments LOL

There are still some that cant see how "saving" themselves- one person- justifies hurting numerous others that are or were friends. even if they r no longer friends, some just don't see the ummm.. nobility if you will, in taking down others.

Your pain and your families doesn't give you the right to destroy numerous other families. Unless, of course, you don't know the meaning of for the greater good.

what the hell? SRY! no idea how this ended up here! I hadnt even been reading this thread! WTH..

Here's what the locals are saying about Joey's latest troubles with the feds on Philly.com's FB page. A lot of people still believe the Philly Mob is good for their neighborhoods

https://www.facebook.com/phillydotcom/posts/10152408707976656

They're clearly his groupies:

U put joey back in south philly and the crime down there will drop by 50% and thes reason i said this is has any1 been in south philly in the past 10 years? Its a war zone between 3 rd and broad streets from ellesworth to oregon...let him back all the property value will go up in south philly!!!!

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Now I believe that the Feds are harassing this guy, but give me a fucking break. Joey Merlino is going to raise property values and lower the crime rate if he moves back to Philly?

No surprise that he'll eventually be going back to prison for doing something as dumb as meeting other people involved or who were involved in OC.

But Merlino is an idiot, and doesn't understand how things work now.

Has real estate skyrocketed down in Boca since Joey's arrival?

If anything it dropped. But we can't blame the Florida real estate bubble on Joey .

so the feds are harassing this arch criminal?

u didn't think george zimmerman was harassing treyvon martin

but the feds are harassing mac.10 attempted murderer in a crowded restaurant

Christ Almighty, Cook. I called his supporters groupies and laughed at their posts on that ridiculous Facebook page, and all you noticed was that I said they're harassing him?

I'm still trying to figure out what George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin have to do with Joey Merlino raising the property values in South Philadelphia.

that ignorant philly facebooker has not been paying attention to the real estate market in the US and philly...people have been moving out of that area for years and the people who own the rowhomes or apartments there need tenants... thus new immigrants or lower income residents move in and crime probably will rise... put joey back in s philly he better be an up n coming donald trump or a dot com zillionaire because those would be the only way to save that area after 50 years of philly govt over taxation and liberal great society programs that destroyed almost every major inner city in the US... no wiseguy is going to alter that

Well put. It's the same way in virtually every urban center that was ever home to Italian Americans. One group of immigrants assimilates and moves out, a different one moves in. Times change, demographics change.

Now I personally think that the "newer" immigrant groups leave something to be desired as human beings. It's their attitude more than anything else. They hate America and they let you know it the second they get here. The old Italians, Jews, Irish, Poles, Germans, and other European immigrants were cut from a different cloth. They embraced and LOVED this country.

That's why, if these newer immigrants never make it out of poverty, I'll have zero sympathy for them.

Its sad that Joey got caught comingling with known felons on the eve of his parole coming to an end. He shoulda known better tho! Feds are out for blood after NOT getting convictions on Uncle joe & George Borgesi.

So very much this...

They don't attempt to learn English and suck their teeth when you tell them you don't speak whatever it is they speak. They can't wait to come here to get away from whatever hell hole they came from so they can deliver their babies in our hospitals and use our tax dollars to pay the bill, but then profess how much they love that hell hole, and refuse to adapt in any way.

Please... if you dont like it here.... go back !

Cookcounty is cooked for sure, well done actually.

The Forest Hills national anthem .

HAHA!

think for his first time they'll reprobate him just so it doesn't stop whatever investigaton there running on him now. give him another 1yr plus squeeze more money out him and make him pay more lawyers. to get your lawyer to fly down florida must cost 5k.

Without blinking an eye.

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when his lawyer walked in to talk to him.

there is probably a lot more to dislike about America now than then (no offense and Canada is no better) although it really begs the question why they bothered to move there. I mean, really, if you're trying to benefit from something you fundamentally disagree with, then you're a hypocrite at best and a moron at worst.

I'm just saying America circa 1900-40' was a very different place than it is now and America's role in the world was virtually nonexistent until after the Second World war. gives people much less cause to dislike you when you have nothing to do with them.

Isn't Joey's hearing tomorrow?

Do anybody know who's in merlino ' s florida crew?

Wasn't joey off supervised release in like March..?

"When you're a dwarf, they could put you on a high mountain, you're still a dwarf."

Sal Avena on Joey Merlino.

Couldnt be said any better than that. So true.

Ditto that.

Merlino's lawyers say enough is enough - stop trying to revoke "Skinny Joey's" probation



JEREMY ROEBUCK, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
LAST UPDATED: Monday, October 6, 2014, 6:38 PM
POSTED: Monday, October 6, 2014, 6:27 PM




Lawyers for former Philadelphia mob boss Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino said Monday that "the government is out of time" and urged a federal judge to halt prosecutors' efforts to put their client back behind bars for an alleged probation violation three years after his release from prison.

In a filing Monday in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, attorneys Edwin J. Jacobs Jr. and Michael F. Myers said the 52-year-old ex-don had faithfully complied with all requirements of his postprison supervision and questioned prosecutors' efforts to incarcerate him just as the probationary term was set to end.

"For the last three years, Joseph has scrupulously abided by the conditions of his supervised release," the lawyers wrote. "Yet, on Sept. 2, 2014, the United States Probation Office obtained a signed violation petition . . . at the eleventh hour, only five days before the expiration of his three year supervised release term."

They argue that because a summons for Merlino to appear in federal court in Philadelphia was not issued until Sept. 16, his probation had ended and he should be free and clear.

The filing came days before Merlino, who now lives in Boca Raton, Fla., is set to return to Philadelphia for a probation revocation hearing.

Last month, his probation officers reported that Merlino violated his release terms in June with a night on the town with one of his former mob captains and two convicted felons.

Authorities in Broward County, Fla., conducted surveillance on what they described a June 18 dinner between Merlino and two ex-cons at an Old World Italian restaurant in a Boca Raton strip mall.

The group later departed for after-dinner drinks in the VIP area of the swank Havana Nights Cigar Bar & Lounge. In attendance, were John Ciancaglini, a mob captain convicted alongside Merlino in 2001; Brad Sirkin, a convicted fraudster and money launderer; and Frank Fiore, the cigar bar's owner who has a record of his own.

In their filings Monday, Merlino's lawyers argued that the former mob boss did not know Ciancaglini was at the bar that night and explained Fiore merely greeted Merlino, as he did with all of his customers.

Merlino's new hearing, scheduled for Friday, comes more than a decade after he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for his conviction in a racketeering conspiracy case.

Though he was charged with more than half a dozen shootings, including those of a video-poker operator who refused to pay street tax, a rival mob leader and the brother of a witness in an earlier mob trial, jurors acquitted him of those counts.

Ever since, federal investigators have kept a close watch on his activities.

In late 2011, they sent a wired mob turncoat to secretly record a conversation about the mob with Merlino at a Florida Dunkin' Donuts - an exchange, his lawyers noted Monday, he dutifully reported to his probation officer at the time.

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