There was a old guy Frank who was close to merlino did a drive by on some video poker guys came close to killing him and merlino was the driver. They would go to Phillies games he was indicted with them in 2000. Read before that he did like 20 yrs for herion.
your thinking of frank gambino he was the alleged shooter in the tony milica hit in the late 90s merlino and natale had him shot because they wanted control over the poker machine racket frank wounded him and could not finish the job because according to natale he got distracted by a women screaming. He was in his 70s and doing a drive by. Did not matter though because after that tony started kicking up money to the mob and then when he died of natural courses in 2001 ligambi and mousie and stanio bought out the company. Frank was caught on tape talking to a rat who was a hjacker who started wearing a wire
