"Shortly after the June 28 arrest of reputed acting mob boss Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino in a federal drug trafficking indictment, a mob associate said Ligambi peeved Merlino by sending him a message at the federal prison at Fairton, N.J.
The associate said Ligambi, 59, told Merlino, 37, he was taking over, saying: "We're going to do this thing right.""
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